Ohhh, like I’m scared!

“The GOP, should I be the nominee, I think can say whatever they want to say about me, my track record. If they think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful.

The Big O. will come and get you.  No fair to say boo about wife.  “She loves this country.”

That’s why she said in Milwaukee in February, “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country” — which at best was a dumb thing to say.  And folks, it was a campaign speech.

Lynn Sweet provides perspective:

[S]he has taken on major fund-raising and surrogate speaking roles on behalf of her husband, even phoning superdelegates to try to close the deal for him. Michelle Obama has her own chief of staff and press secretary, and campaign advance staffers handle her larger events, where she has turned out to be a significant draw in her own right.  . . . . Spouses are not exempt from scrutiny if they are major surrogates.

She’s on staff, in other words.  Big O. is full of it in this obvious case of spinning stuff to his advantage.

He should also can the lovey-dovey stuff with her, as in the shot on p. 3 of today’s Sun-Times, if only because it reminds viewers and readers of Al (There’s Money in Global Warming) Gore’s juicy smack on Tipper’s lips at the 2004 [oops! 2000, but I remember it like yesterday] convention — which Nick Gillespie called “part of an unprecedented invitation into the private life of a political candidate.”