Okay, complete disclosure… I’m crazy about this woman. She’s just so brainy and cool and I can’t wait to have sophisticated, smart people in the White House. Sounds good to me — but no. The New York Times reports that the consultants and spin-meisters have been called in to ‘fix’ her.

Now her husband’s presidential campaign is giving her image a subtle makeover, with a new speech in the works to emphasize her humble roots and a tough new chief of staff. On Wednesday, Mrs. Obama will do a guest turn on “The View,” the daytime talk show on ABC, with an eye toward softening her reputation.

This woman went to Princeton and Harvard Law, and ran with the big boys as a corporate lawyer in Chicago. Nope, can’t have that… we must make her go all soft and squishy and insipid. Come on! She’s got a good mind, leave her alone and let her speak it. Conservative bloviators got their knickers in a twist over some remarks she made about being proud of her country for the first time. (After the last eight years it is hard to remember feeling that way.) You’d have thought she had killed somebody (see: Laura Bush).

Please Michelle, fire these people. You didn’t get this far with consultants and focus groups. Just be yourself. And no cookie recipes.

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