While Kennedy evoked the highest ideals of the Democratic Party past last night, Michelle Obama capped the evening by introducing America to the man tasked with driving the Party’s future.
“I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president,” she said. “I come here as a Mom whose girls are the heart of my heart and the center of my world… And I come here as a daughter raised on the south side of Chicago by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.”
After framing her own humble beginnings and the love that her mom and dad “poured” into raising her and her brother, Michelle Obama said her husband, Barack Obama, shared many of the same experiences even though he had a “funny name” and was raised outside of the Midwest in Hawaii.
“Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them,” said Michelle Obama.
Michelle wrapped Barack in the cloak of her all-American story last night and, in my opinion, it worked.
Of course, pundits spent the night marveling that Democrats failed to launch any attacks against the GOP, McCain, and Bush. If that's your game, I'm sure there will be plenty of that to go around tonight.
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