Michelle is Barack’s weak link

There is not much love for Michelle Obama. America might have gone gooey for Barack, but there is something about the missus that raises the national hackles.

Now that she might be on her way to the White House, which is no mean privilege, she declares that "for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country."

That sounds a lot like an exaggerated sense of entitlement. The 44-year-old lawyer, who grew up in Chicago, married Obama in 1992 and is mother to his two daughters, hastily 'clarified'. What she really meant to say was that she was proud of America for finally rising above its history of racial divide by backing a black candidate.

Maybe. But the remark still stinks in a nation in thrall