Stakes Are High For Michelle Obama in Prime-Time Speech

By Stephen Clark When Michelle Obama takes the stage at the Democratic National Convention Monday night in front of her largest TV audience, she will need to do more than introduce herself as a potential first lady. It is her biggest opportunity yet for her to reinvent herself, after being portrayed by Republicans as unpatriotic for saying that her husband’s campaign made her proud of America “for the first time.” “She has been by all accounts a polarizing figure in this campaign,” NPR Correspondent Juan Williams told FOXNews.com Monday. Williams, a FOX News contributor, said the “proud” comment defined her for a lot of voters. “It’s off-putting to a lot of people, but especially  to middle-of-the-road white America.  So tonight she wants to reinvent herself.  She wants to say, ‘Hey listen, that’s a distortion, a caricature of who I really am.’” Michelle LaVaughn Robinson grew up on the South Side of Chicago in ... (link)