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Michelle defends, re-introduces husband

From NBC/NJ’s Aswini AnburajanJEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — Michelle Obama spoke to the heart of the conservative attack against her husband Wednesday morning, telling a room full of Obama supporters that it was incumbent on them to get the true picture of who her husband was out to undecided voters before Tuesday’s primary.

“There are a lot of people who don’t know anything about us,” she said. “Anything other than the caricatures that have been painted of us in the media. And that is the nature of the process.”

She claimed that if she or her husband had just had 15 or 30 minutes to individually meet with each voter, the nominating process would have ended long ago but building that degree of familiarity with the electorate was impossible.

“And the game counts on that,” she said. “It counts on the fact that there’s no way that all these people are really going to know who Barack Obama is, so let me paint a different picture really quickly, which hopefully will stick and will distract people from what they’re really asking for anyway.”

Her comments reflected on the controversies that have embroiled her husband both recently — Rev. Wright and William Ayres — but also to false rumors circulating about him, including photos that try to prove he doesn’t put his hand over his heart during the pledge of allegiance and e-mails claiming he’s a Muslim.

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