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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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  • Tuesday, August 26, 2008 09:20 AM

    Stackie-dackie, I was going to ignore you because of your comments some time ago on Carla Bruni

    "Attack" is a word you don't understand but you come back again yapping and nipping at my heels like an angry chichuahua. Believe whatever you like and please be kind enough to let me do the same. Once upon a time, important men wore powdered wigs and if they had a heated argument their wigs were likely to have been knocked off - hence the expression "wigs on the green".

    Unfortunately, you're like so many of the Obama supporters I've seen in Salon: nobody's opinion is worth anything but yours, anyone who finds Barack Obama unconvincing is a racist and so it goes on and on and on. I find this reactionary hysteria quite frightening on what is supposed to be a forum. There's also something quite sinister I've noticed. Those who are critical of Obama don't seem to need the endorsement of others of like mind but what I've now decided to call the Halleluia Chorus (the Change and Hope people) are constantly running on to a thread to support each other in a stupidly unsubtle way. Now I wiah you a good day and all the best. If you wear a wig, that's up to you.

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