we all know about michelle’s propensity to be well, ‘bitter‘.  we also know she can put her foot in her mouth – chronically carping with the best of them ! 

so after all of these incidents, michelle has been very low-key as one of barry’s surrogates.  however yesterday the campaign made sure she had a nice, soft re-enty into the spot light when she introduced her candidate husband to about 40 elderly people at the Oakleaf Village retirement center in Columbus, Ohio. the would-be first lady quickly had the roomful of grandparents chuckling and applauding as she managed to praise them along with her husband and their two daughters while tying the anecdotes to her husband’s theme of the day, retirement security.

in her four-minute speech, michelle obama also burnished her extensive *cough* patriotic credentials, which have come under attack from various critics by saying this about the birth of their 11 yo daughter malia:

“(she) will be 10 on the Fourth of July. Yes, we planned it that way. I cooperated. I was supposed to have her on July 1, but I waited, because my daughter would be more historic.”

that is incredibly lame.  i feel so much better about her now.  don’t you?