to a jingoistic sense of patriotism. Just because she is black, does she not feel proud of WWII, men on the moon, truth, justice and the American way?

Michelle comes across as a bit prickly. She doesn't have Barack's charm or politician's polish. Early on, she revealed that she made him quit smoking as a condition for being allowed

to run for the presidency, and would kick him out of bed in the morning for being 'stinky'.

Many a true word is said in jest, and it seems that the potential future president needs his wife's permission. That jibes with the charismatic leader on a mission for change.

Women who promise to vote for Obama wrinkle their noses at Michelle because "she wears the pants". Ironically, that echoes the Bill and Hillary Clinton of 1992. Like Hillary (left), Michelle fails to convince that she really does bake cookies. She is more comfortable in her job as an executive with the Chicago University Hospital Group.

Michelle got there via Princeton and Harvard, bastions of the Ivy League. The thesis she wrote in her final year at Princeton has been 'temporarily withdrawn'