Ninja
Senior Member
"The transparent purpose of Michelle Obama's speech, its kitschy effort to reassure, gave Michelle Obama a glaze of insincerity. In the post-speech commentary many of the TV types -- schooled now in empathy and not objectivity -- gave her high marks for what she did, but what she had really done, she had done earlier in her life. Last night she gave the standard log cabin speech expected of nearly all American public figures: born poor, raised in faith, et cetera, et cetera, with nary a mention of race. It was a speech designed to reassure, but it didn't do that at all. Politics can sometimes be ugly. In this case, we witnessed how a dynamic woman with a razor-sharp intellect had, for the moment, been lobotomized."
-Richard Cohen, WaPo
*Diuretic curls up in the fetal position*
-Richard Cohen, WaPo
*Diuretic curls up in the fetal position*
