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Did she connect with you?

Justin Webb|06:12 UK time, Tuesday, 26 August 2008

I thought Michelle Obama's speech was effective but not a knock-out; it doesn't settle the matters of perceived lack of patriotism and oddness and effeteness (if that is a word) - it merely begins the fight back against them.

Some felt more positive about it and some saw it for what it (probably) was, an opening effort more than a clincher.

As I was leaving the convention centre I saw the motorcade taking Michelle and the children home, all of them sitting in a row in a big Suburban surrounded by gun-toting secret service men. It is a privileged life they are leading, but I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy...

Meanwhile this is hilarious - deserves to be reported as fact...

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