'Any American Woman Who Meets Her Would Immediately Identify Her as a Fellow Traveler'

According to Bartleby, a fellow traveler is "One who supports the aims or philosophies of a political group without joining it. A “fellow traveler” is usually one who sympathizes with communist doctrines but is not a member of the Communist party. The term was used disparagingly in the 1950s to describe people accused of being communists."

So why is Barack Obama disparaging his own wife? We constantly hear him whining how people are being unfair to her, so was this just another gaffe, Barry?

She's just a wonderfully normal, levelheaded person. Any American woman who meets her would immediately identify her as a fellow traveler.

Hmmm.

A rather inartful choice of words.

Funny, but we keep hearing from the Obamas how they don't want to exploit their kids, yet they just continue to keep them in the spotlight.

You can't have it both ways, folks.

Meanwhile, Obama's pathetic obsession with Fox News continues. He refuses to go on cable's highest-rated network, but disparages them whenever he can.

Very unbecoming of a candidate to single out a network, in my opinion.

MC: Do you think she's misunderstood?

BO: Not by people who've been paying attention. I think that if you've been watching Fox News then probably she's misunderstood, because I do think there's been a fairly systematic attempt by the conservative press to paint her in a completely false way. They latched onto the one gaffe or statement she made about being proud of her country for the first time, which, as Laura Bush acknowledged, was not something that Michelle had meant — that she had not been proud of her country before. And her very legitimate criticisms of how families are being treated and the difficulty for so many women of balancing family and work was painted as her being this caricature of an angry person. Anybody who knows her well knows she's got the best sense of humor of anyone you'd ever want to meet. She's the most quintessentially American person I know.

Sorry, but when you call the United States a downright mean country, expect criticism, and not just from Fox News. And there are a lot more than one gaffe.

Who knows, maybe Michelle Obama will be in a future cabinet?

MC: Will she be in your cabinet?

BO: I'm not going to speculate at this point. But what I know is that she'll be at the center of the Democratic Party for a very long time.

Glenn Reynolds links. Thanks!

Update: To clarify, as a reader notes, the speculation over a cabinet position was in a discussion about Hillary Clinton, not Michelle Obama. My goof. I guess the terrifying notion of Michelle Obama in a cabinet position left me blinded. Still, I suspect the bad blood lingering between Clinton and Obama may preclude her from consideration. Let's hope it's a moot point come November.

Update: Curious, now Obama gets the CPUSA endorsement.