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Here in the US, political campaigns are silly and staged soap operas, with wives, kids, puppies, mothers and grandchildren being paraded in an orgy of kitsch and cliches. A visitor from Mars would think that US voters have to vote for a vavorite spouse, child, grandma and puppie in addition to voting for the candidate him/herself. Within that idiotic kitchy context, Michelle Obama's speech was the classiest I've ever heard from a candidate's spouse. I wish spouses would never be paraded and exploited that way, after all we vote for a candidate, not his spouse or children, but as long as insist on this nonsense, I'll take Michelle Obama over that plastic barbie doll Cindy McCain any time..
