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Expect GOP to Turn Venom on Michelle

Dowd: Right will paint would-be first lady as angry black woman

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 11, 2008 9:58 AM CDT

(Newser) – Now that Hillary Clinton is out of the White House picture, it’s Michelle Obama’s turn to be the object of that “sulfurous national game of ‘Kill the witch,’” writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. The fairer Obama... Read full story »

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