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Seems Mrs Obama cannot play by the rules....



FIRST LADY CAMPAIGNS INSIDE POLLING PLACE
Thu Oct 14 2010 16:19:25 ET



First lady Michelle Obama appears to have violated Illinois law -- when she engaged in political discussion at a polling place!

The drama began after Mrs. Obama stopped off at the Martin Luther King Center on the south side of Chicago to cast an early vote.

After finishing at the machine, Obama went back to the desk and handed in her voting key.

She let voters including electrician Dennis Campbell, 56, take some photos.

"She was telling me how important it was to vote to keep her husband's agenda going," Campbell said.

According to a pool reporter from the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES at the scene, the conversation took place INSIDE the voting center, not far from the booths.

Illinois state law -- Sec. 17-29 (a) -- states: "No judge of election, pollwatcher, or other person shall, at any primary or election, do any electioneering or soliciting of votes or engage in any political discussion within any polling place [or] within 100 feet of any polling place."

A top Ilinois State Board of Elections official tells the DRUDGE REPORT that Mrs. Obama -- a Harvard-educated lawyer -- may have simply been ignorant of the law and thus violated it unintentionally.

"You kind of have to drop the standard for the first lady, right?" the official explained late Thursday. "I mean, she's pretty well liked and probably doesn't know what she's doing."

WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS ELECTIONEERING

When questioned about the brazen nature of Mrs. Obama's campaigning, press secretary Robert Gibbs defended the action.

"I don't think it would be much to imagine, the First Lady might support her husband's agenda," Gibbs smiled.

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Nope. She just gets a different set of rules than all of us poor plebes out in flyover country.

If you ever wanted to see the irritant, elitist sense of entitlement then you have to look no farther than Michelle Obama.

Gibbs admitted she did it.  He also excused her not following the law because she believes in Obama's agenda.  That makes breaking the law okay I guess. 

Quote from: republicans2 on October 15, 2010, 05:51:18 AM
Gibbs admitted she did it.  He also excused her not following the law because she believes in Obama's agenda.  That makes breaking the law okay I guess.

That's just pathetic. Imagine that was Laura Bush. But then she has to much class to do something like that in the first place.

Quote from: Indy on October 15, 2010, 06:29:32 AM
That's just pathetic. Imagine that was Laura Bush. But then she has to much class to do something like that in the first place.

If we have learned anything when a Dem is in office it is that the rules don't apply to them as they do the rest of us... And if your black then you get to make up your own rules safe in the knowlege that when you cry racism all will be forgiven...

Pathetic!

Quote from: AmericanMom on October 15, 2010, 08:09:06 AM

If we have learned anything when a Dem is in office it is that the rules don't apply to them as they do the rest of us... And if your black then you get to make up your own rules safe in the knowlege that when you cry racism all will be forgiven...

Pathetic!

I really don't think it has anything to do with Michelle being black.  I think it's because she's a left wing lib, an elitist, and sees herself as above the law.  Evidently the poll watchers agreed.  Unfortunately, nothing will come of this.

Quote from: crepe05 on October 15, 2010, 08:30:26 AM
I really don't think it has anything to do with Michelle being black.  I think it's because she's a left wing lib, an elitist, and sees herself as above the law.  Evidently the poll watchers agreed.  Unfortunately, nothing will come of this.

I understand and didn't mean to imply in this instance it did, I was thinking more of the black panther incident in 08

I've yet to hear an apology, all I've heard are excuses.
Just more typical lib BS.

Quote from: AmericanMom on October 15, 2010, 08:38:02 AM

I understand and didn't mean to imply in this instance it did, I was thinking more of the black panther incident in 08

Good point.  I didn't think of that.  Thanks for clarifying.  I wish I'd thought of it.   :)