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Michelle Obama's Two Americas. By Byron York. August 26, 2008 7:00 AM
News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:13 PM EDT
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Denver — Near the end of Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention Monday night, I got an e-mail from a friend who had been with me at another speech by Mrs. Obama, in Charlotte, North Carolina, last May, on the eve of that state's primary. "This isn't the Michelle we know," my friend said. And indeed, Mrs. Obama's speech to the delegates here in Denver was worlds away from her address in Charlotte.
In Denver, Michelle Obama described America as a place of hope, a place where people find success during the course of "improbable journeys." In Charlotte, her America was a dark and ugly place, where people who work hard are knocked down by sinister forces — a place where even young children burst into tears when they realize the deck is stacked against them.
In Denver, Mrs. Obama said, "My piece of the American Dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me." Those forebears, she explained, were "driven by the same conviction that drove my dad to get up an hour early each day to painstakingly dress himself for work — the same conviction that drives the men and women I've met all across this country…That's why I love this country."
So here in Denver Mrs. Obama had a job to do. It wasn't just to introduce Americans to the Obama family or show another side of her husband's personality. It was to rehabilitate herself, to take the edge of anger and resentment from her public pronouncements and embrace a wholesome, country-loving, American-Dream-living image. And that's what her speech at the convention was about.
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The [unfavorable poll] numbers were simply terrible for a candidate's wife — not all that different from Hillary Clinton's numbers, even though the former First Lady has been in the spotlight for much longer and was a candidate in her own right.
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