However, Michelle - there's a side of her that's on Youtube
that's all over Repub boards and is said will be emphasized in the post-convention time in clips if needed.

  The last one was a North Carolina talk to mostly women,
in which she said that she understands, 'they keep raising the bar on you,' she told them.  Then she illustrated this with Obama raising a lot of money it had been thought to be too dificult.  Then he had to win this state.  That wasn't enough, she said, then he had to win South Carolina.  But that wasn't enough either. They keep raising the bar.  He had to win another state and another state.  (As if this were unusual for the usual candidates.) It's on youtube.

   The longer one is from UCLA in February.  McCain 527's will likely show videoclips of Michelle Obama's speech portions at UCLA (transcripts are all over the usual Republican sites).  I agree with some of her analysis but not with the solution she promises !

Excerpts from her UCLA speech in 4 parts

  "Barack Will Never Allow You to Go Back to Your Lives as Usual."

    "In 2008, we are still a nation that is too divided. We
live in isolation, and because of that isolation, we fear one another. We don't know our neighbors, we don't talk, we believe our pain is our own. We don't realize that the struggles and challenges of all of us are the same. We are too isolated. And we are still a nation that is still too cynical. We look at it as "them" and "they" as opposed to "us". We don't engage because we are still too cynical.

 ... Americans are not in debt because they live frivolously
but because someone got sick.  ...

    And things have gotten progressively worse throughout my
lifetime, through Democratic and Republican administrations, it hasn't gotten better for regular folks. ....

    [Note they always include Bill Clinton's administrations  
     in describing the horrors, and it's not true - stats    
     show things improved during his 8 years.]

    We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another -- that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these. That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done.

  That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls.
  Our souls are broken in this nation."

    "Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage.

    Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."
    . . .

Yes, that would include offering patronizing advice to people who expected one heck of a lot more from you.

Oh and she doesn't notice sexism.

Biden would make a better President.  

It's interesting -- this is Jesse Jackson Jr., who famously split with his father over Obama. Jesse Jackson Jr., like Obama, represents a new generation of African-American politicians. In many ways, this is his national debut. We are witnessing the passage of leadership to a new generation of American-Americans. This is a turning point in black politics.

He is stressing the theme of unity. This new generation -- represented by Obama and Jesse Jackson Jr. -- they don't speak the language of racial grievances like Jesse Jackson Sr. and Al Sharpton. They speak a language of unity.

I'm laughing at that comment about the children.  
Last night Fox news had one hour special on Obama.  (My husband is a republican, although registered independent,  so sometime I bump into fox) Anyway, they showed Michelle in an event introducing her husband.  And she said: Here is my man, here is my babies daddy, here is Barack Obama :D :D :D.  
I couldn't help laughing ... a big change from recoiling everytime I hear them speak.

Jr. decided to change the pronounciation, but Maraniss gives no reason for the change.

The pronounciations as used by Jr's family and his father does explain why he got the nickname "Barry" as it comes directly out of the father's pronounciation.

I mean JFK had hookers visiting him in the White House. He was sleeping with girlfriends of mob bosses. He slept with Marilyn Monroe.

It was the Obama communications rep.