Michelle Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will be the featured first-night speakers at the Democratic National Convention, which also will include a videotaped message from Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Link:Breitbart.com.
Everybody who knows Michelle knows how extraordinary she is. She’s ironically the most quintessentially American woman I know. She grew up in a “Leave it to Beaver” family. She is the best mother I know. And our kids are a testimony to that, because she’s really had to raise them, oftentimes without me being there. [...]
Slate’s Christopher Beam has reflected on how the Obama fist-bump meme has grown from a simple celebratory gesture between Barack and Michelle Obama to the diabolical central psychological gesture from yesterday’s cover of the New Yorker. And, for what it’s worth, he’s taking responsibility for it
Link:The Huffington Post
After Michelle praises her husband as a leader, as a man, as a father and as “the next president of the United States,” the senator claims a similar disconnect.
“She never says such nice things about me at home!” he smiles. “I really enjoy listening to her praise me like that because when I get home [...]
