The Michelle rollout continues with this new video, just blasted out to supporters by the Obama campaign, of Michelle prepping backstage for her big speech and giving her little girls tongue-in-cheek advice to come out and praise her performance. . .The vid underscores two of Michelle's goals here tonight: To soften her and make her a more mainstream figure, and to deflect attacks on the Obamas as intoxicated with their "celebrity." The "celeb" sneer ads, and the criticism of Michelle's claim that she's proud of her country for the first time, are both all about painting the Obamas as too puffed up for their own good, and here Michelle's nervousness and mock advice to her kids shows her modest and reserved side.As for the need to soften Michelle, earlier tonight Rev. Eugene Rivers was on Hardball with Chris Matthews and really drove home that imperative. "They're the Huxtables!" he told Matthews, "What could be more American than the Huxtables?" In my memory, Claire Huxtable wasn't the softest of characters. Still, softening is clearly the goal here, as is evidenced by Michelle's cuddling with her children and effeminately describing the stage as "full of color and light."

Larry Sinclair, who also slept with Obama (but produced no children) was not asked to address the DNC.