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I forget which, said: "That which is most personal is most general." The whole point of the exercise was to tell the personal story of M.O. so that the Obama family would be seen as just another American family. She succeeded. I doubt that anyone who watched or listened to her speech came away thinking she was scary or threatening.
In fact, the post-game comments from both MSNBC and CNN had the republicans stating they were happy because team Obama hadn't advanced the ball. (Sorry about the sports metaphor, but I heard it more than once on both networks.) I disagree. By taking away the "they're too exotic to live in the White House" argument, the ball was advanced last night.
@ cahcap
As for the trolls two points: 1) The old saw: "You can lead a whore to culture, be you can't make her think." comes to mind, and 2) I find it best to just ignore them: It's no fun trolling if no one bites.
