Michelle Obama says GOP using 'ultimate fear bomb'

David Edwards and Mike Sheehan

Published: Friday February 29, 2008



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Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama, says that Republicans are using fear to scare voters as they continually invoke her husband's middle name, Hussein, to highlight false stories about Obama's personal ties to Islam.

Mrs. Obama refers to the GOP tactic as "the fear bomb," says MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.

"They threw in the obvious, ultimate fear bomb that we're even hearing now: they said his name," Mrs. Obama exclaimed. "They said, 'Look out for his name, when all else fails. Be afraid of his name and what they could stand for, because it's different.'"

Olbermann reports that the Republican National Committee denounced usage of the Illinois senator's full name by local GOP organizations.

Columnist Jonathan Alter says of Obama's purported Muslim connections and the Republican promotion of same, "This is not a dispute over facts, this is an Internet lie that people believe."







