“Sen. Hillary Clinton’s lead among African Americans voters, who consistently favor the former first lady to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) in presidential primary polling, is just a temporary phenomenon, according to Obama’s wife, Michelle.
“First of all, I think that that’s not going to hold,” Mrs. Obama said of Clinton’s current numbers in an interview with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski. “I’m completely confident.”
Acknowledging a certain reluctance in the African American community to back her husband for president, she said that support would come — but it would take time.
“Black Americans will wake up and get it,” Obama said. “But what we’re dealing with in the black community is just the natural fear of possibility. When I look at my life, the stuff that we’re seeing in these polls is played out my whole life: always been told by somebody that I’m not ready, you know, I can’t do something, my scores weren’t high enough.”
Obama pointed to a specific skepticism about her husband’s chances to win the presidency among blacks, who she says have been repeatedly told by society that there are limitations on what an African American can achieve.”
