Michelle Obama Sends Mixed Message

In her speech at the convention last night, Michelle started out sounding more like a conservative than a liberal. She talked about how both she and Barack, despite humble beginnings, realized the American dream through opportunity and hard work. She talked about how she benefited from two loving and supportive parents, and how Barack, though his parents were divorced, had two grandparents to fall back on. She mentioned that her mother was a stay-at-home mom and that her father continued to work with a debilitating disease. She talked about how much her own family means to her. She even said that she loves America -- without any qualifiers.

But right after all that she emphatically declared that Barack was the right person to fix America. Huh? What needs fixing? What's wrong with a country that allows anyone -- even one with a funny name -- to succeed if he wants it bad enough? What's wrong with a country that has given a racial minority citizen at least an even chance of becoming its supreme leader?

She did a good job in delivering the speech but its content was a bit muddled. She needs to get another speech writer. No, on second thought, she should keep the one she has; I don't want Barack to be elected.

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