The Nation's Katha Pollitt on Michelle Obama: "It doesn't speak so well of the electorate, though, that Michelle Obamahas to hide her light of career-womanhood and, yes, African-Americanexperience under a great big bushel of bland middle-Americanfamily-values conformity."  Listen to there speech on RaceWire.org. 

USC Professor on men's media images: "Male stupidity is, in fact, a new form of machismo, and itcomes—perhaps not surprisingly—at a time when alternative masculinitieshave achieved some small measure of currency."

The people's convention?  Obama campaign ignores Iraq Veterans Against the War.