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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:00 AM

Isn't she lovely?

In her prime-time speech Monday, Michelle Obama foiled her harshest detractors and perhaps even won over Middle America.

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  • Thursday, August 28, 2008 06:37 AM

    In the eye of the beholder

    It is the Thursday after the Hillary speech and I have just now stumbled upon this article. I apparently have a different opinion than the writer of this article. The Michelle I saw was no different that the Michelle who said that she for the first time was proud of her country. What comments would you expect from her family. Her outside appearance has been enhanced by the Obama publicity machine but she is no different on the inside than the egocentric females who go to the plastic surgeons to make them beautiful. She should have been made aware by her handlers when the cameras panned her face during the Hillary Clinton speech on Wednesday, the anniversary of Womens Sufferage. Her distain could not be more evident. She is not interested in womens sufferage but only in HER rise to fame. This disgrace of a woman is to be our First Lady? As with her husband, the democrats have scraped the bottom of the barrel. I may be one of her harshest detractors and she has certainly not won over me. But then it takes more than one speech and a new frock to show me who you are. Come on Rebecca Traister. I had credited you for more intelligence than apparently you are showing.

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