First Lady: Husband 'Man We Can Trust' / First Lady Makes President's Case

First lady Michelle Obama lovingly praised her husband Tuesday night in a prime-time Democratic Convention speech as a devoted husband, caring father at home and a 'man we can trust' to keep the country moving forward.

First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, making the case for re-electing her husband. She said President Obama knows what it's like to struggle and cares about doing the right thing.

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The Professor Who Schooled Tavis Smiley

By: Les Payne

Bristling in the face of the calm scholar, Tavis Smiley was having none of the lesson that Randall Kennedy was teaching on Smiley's TV show in early September. So the Harvard law professor contented himself with taking PBS viewers to school on the complex relationship between the first black U.S. president and his African-American constituency.

Kennedy weighed in with the scholarship of his new book, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, noting that President Barack Obama has mastered the dual audience so troubling to black seekers of high office. African-American voters broke for him in the '08 primary after largely white voters in Iowa favored him over John Edwards and Hillary Clinton.

Already, Kennedy argued, Obama was overcoming skepticism among grassroots blacks wary about his upbringing by a white mother and her parents. He heaped praise upon Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders and displayed the requisite level of "comfort with black history, black culture, black rhythms, black colloquialisms."And whereas Obama did not choose his parents, the young politician had chosen a "very distinguished black woman, Michelle Robinson" as his wife. CONTINUE....

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Chachi Catches Heat for Throwing First Lady Shade

By: TheRoot.com

Scott Baio, who somehow has time in his busy schedule to tweet, has been the target of Twitter hate after a tweet concerning First Lady Michelle Obama. From Popeater

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Most Women Would Be Mrs. Obama for a Week

By: Frazier Moore

NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama was edged out by George Clooney (24 percent to 26 percent) among respondents choosing "which man they would most like to trade places with for a week," followed by Tom Brady and Bruce Springsteen.



But among woman, First Lady Michelle Obama was the favorite, chosen by 26 percent, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton picked by 16 percent, actress Angelina Jolie by 13 percent and singer Beyonce selected by 12 percent.



Those are among the findings of a new "60 Minutes"-Vanity Fair Poll released Sunday.

Most Women Would Be Mrs. Obama for a Week....