The Nation's Katha Pollitt on Michelle Obama: "It doesn't speak so well of the electorate, though, that Michelle Obama has to hide her light of career-womanhood and, yes, African-American experience under a great big bushel of bland middle-American family-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 it comes—perhaps not surprisingly—at a time when alternative masculinities have achieved some small measure of currency."

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

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