We don’t dip into the Federal pond very often, but can’t help but noticing that Barack Obama is probably pretty happy to be able to check the “stand up for my family better than Dukakis did during the ’88 Presidential debate” box for his campaign.  Do you remember that debate and the softball questions posed about his wife from CNN’s Bernie Shaw. From ABC News:

The Republicans seem to have come to the same conclusion and a GOP Internet campaign in Tennessee has an ad featuring Michelle Obama’s comments during the long Democratic campaign that “for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.”

Michelle Obama was asked about the ad on “GMA,” but her husband said, “Let me just interject on this.”

“The GOP, should I be the nominee, I think can say whatever they want to say about me, my track record,” Obama said. “I’ve been in public life for 20 years. I expect them to pore through everything that I’ve said, every utterance, every statement. And to paint it in the most undesirable light possible. That’s what they do.”

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