Democratic stalwarts today admitted that they had made a "grave error" in nominating Barack Obama, admitting that his wife Michelle would make a "much more compelling candidate" and hoping that in the Obama administration the position of First Lady "can be something more critical than simply welcoming dignitaries and hectoring children about drug use."
 
"Her speech was fantastic," said independent journalist Keith Olbermann.  "Simply the greatest oratory delivered within the last hundred and fifty years.  All of the passion, courage, and political conviction that you can possibly imagine was wrapped up in that speech.  I cried so hard my glasses fogged up."
 
Even opponents were amazed at her political acumen.  "Who would ever have thought to use children and touching anecdotes of a candidate's personal life to connect with voters and earn their sympathy?" asked conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan.  "She's like the cool of JFK meets the political wizardry of FDR!  Continuing to keep Michelle under wraps would be a morally outrageous equivalent to putting a tarp over the Statue of Liberty or waterboarding Bozo the Clown."
 
Not all Democrats were pleased.  Former president Bill Clinton told reporters that the speech didn't do enough to heal the wounds from a bruising primary.  "I didn't hear enough about Hillary or about my legacy," he said.  "This convention should be about how the Clinton legacy has been tarnished by eight years of Bush and the Republicans, and what we're going to do about restoring it.  And the first step of restoring the Clinton legacy is to have a Clinton at the helm."

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