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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.
By Rebecca Traister

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  • Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:16 PM

    michelle Obama

    I thought her speech was very good. I just think it was very misleading to portray her job as low paying community service. She was a hospital vice president making over $100,000 a year. I realize someone with degrees from Harvard and Princeton do make so much more. However, I have spent years in the nonprofit world making a difference at real starvation wages. Her job was not exactly the Peace Corp. If the truth gets out it just shows the Obamas are as out of touch with the real world as the McCains. $1000,000 a year as a hospital vicepresident is selfless? Give me a break!!!!

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