This is being taken out of context... considering her persona and strength of character. Obama shouldn't apologize for his wife.  Good gawd, what a woman she is and Obama is lucky to have her.

She is a cornerstone of strength and power for that family. This woman graduated cum laude from Princeton and has a JD from Harvard.    

"I am tired of being afraid . . . I don't want my girls to live in a country that is based on fear."

Michelle said she travels with her husband in part "to model what it means to have family values," adding "if you can't run your own house, you can't run the White House."
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But as the campaign has moved along, her speeches have become stronger, funnier and more personable. She speaks with more emotion than her husband; you feel she is the power propelling him, that she has the psychological mettle, the tough skin, the searing ambition.

My colleague Mary Mitchell asked Michelle how she was able to "snag Barack." But Obama knows he is the lucky one. At least he should know. Michelle is an incredible asset to his campaign.

If this were intended as a hit on Clinton, then it applies to her position as a sitting Senator (her "house"). She supported the Iraq War.

     Are you making "personal attacks" about Obama? The text doesn't bear out the Drudge interpretation of Michelles' comments, and you have no proof that what she said was a campaign plan to attack HC.

     I find your implication that he's using his wife as the messenger to be a cheap shot - do you think Bill is "used as a messenger" for HCs' campaign? Is that a problem for you, or is it ok because he's a man (or because he is the spouse of the candidate you support)?

Why do you support someone who has no chance?

One can only speculate upon the motivation for this rather hard line pro-Clinton stance, but it has a rather desperate feel to it that's hard to figure in a race where Hillary has a double-digit lead.  As I've asserted in other comments, the American people are not going to swallow the politics of fear this time around, so perhaps Hillary and her supporters had better rethink their strategy before her poll numbers begin plummeting as a result of their own actions.

It's a new day in America, and the Democratic front runners better get with the program, Obama saw it early, but Hillary is still playing it safe, and apparently trying to cater to the voters who according to some she has little chance of winning over.  Obama is obviously trying to define himself, as opposed to letting the other candidates define him, while Hillary on the other hand already finds herself well defined by the right as a lefty, and by much of a left as a sellout to the Republican agenda.  So why are her poll numbers so high, can we really trust these media polls from the major media providers, who have their own agenda?  

Perhaps the moderate voices in this country really are the strongest, contrary to what Markos and many others on the left would have us believe.  Perhaps Hillary Rodham Clinton's acquisition of the Democratic nomination is already a foregone conclusion, and the will of the people matters not a whit any longer.  I'm skeptical of everything at this point.

PS I like Obama's position on Cuba, it's high time we ended this archaic Cold War fairytale.  Of course Hillary is playing it safe and proposing no change to the current US policy with Cuba.

CNN is playing the fear tactics on this issue, talking about Florida as a swing state, and how the Cubans in Florida are staunchly Republican, and questioning Obama for opening this can of worms. So if they're so staunchly Republican why would it matter what a Democrat says about US Cuban relations, they're going to vote for a Republican anyway right?  Better rethink that one.  Cubans are funny when it comes to politics, they may register as Republicans, and talk a good Republican game, but when they get behind those partitions, and no one is looking over their shoulder, their choices might surprise many.

Let's get real, why is she using GOP code words that 'tsk tsk' working women.

from ollie north testifying in his uniform after being a good loyal UN-American FASCIST to ... alberto ... whatever.

In My NOT humble opinion, all Dem campaigns should always have people who ALWAYS ATTACK --

people who are gonna snivel and whine about debasing politics, cuz, in some bambi-esque fantasy there was some ... ha ha ha... golden era ... those people can listen to the tomes and read the soaring speeches.

I hope Obama's wife keeps going after the despicable fascist hypocrites.

oh, and if Hillary wasn't so in bed with the other side so often, she wouldn't have anything to worry about !

rmm.

Jennifer Hunter, the former editor of North Shore magazine, has just been named to the Sun-Times editorial board. "It's a step down for her, having run the magazine successfully for almost three years," says her husband, John Cruickshank, publisher of the Sun-Times.

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as reported on rawstory, these comments are similar to those made by ms. obama at other campaign stops in the past couple of months, nothing particularly new here.

must really be the dog days of summer.

as for the clinton's purported (according to dadler) "dysfunctional family", would that more families were that "dysfunctional": two extremely intelligent, extremely accomplished parents, and a smart, attractive and, by all accounts, very well adjusted and successful daughter.

Then I read the full quote and, from the context, it is obvious that Michelle was talking about her OWN family.

As FOX News commentator Susan Estrich says today, the comments were never intended as a slam at Hillary:

Did Michelle Obama launch a new attack aimed at Hillary? No...

As it turns out, the line is a standard part of Mrs. Obama's stump speech, which she's been giving all month. And it's not about her marriage to Barack, or his to her, but about their two daughters, and how they have tried to keep their eye on them -- on what's important -- even in the midst of the pressures of the campaign. To construe that as an attack on Hillary, who has been criticized for many things, but never for lack love or mothering towards her daughter Chelsea, is a stretch, to say the least.