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Michelle Obama just wrapped up her speech, which went perfectly. But that moment after the speech with her and the girls talking to Barack...how can you top that? Seriously. How can you top it?

What did you think?

Update: I've posted the full text of her remarks here.

I thought it was all good, but it was especially powerful starting with her "Standing at the crosscurrents of history" line.

Update 2 - Leave it to Andrew Sullivan to sum it up (thanks middlegirl3 for the heads up!):

Michelle did it. She more than did it. She struck fear in the GOP tonight. Their lies about the Obamas will fail. As they should.

Update 3: How many people can honestly say they stole the show from Ted Kennedy?

Steve Benen reports that Debra Bartoschevich, the former Clinton supporter now appearing in a John McCain campaign ad, today falsely claimed that McCain is pro-choice -- with McCain adviser Carly Fiorina standing nearby.

Other than TIME's blog, I've seen no coverage of this in any MSM publication. More importantly, I've seen no indication that Fiorina or anyone else from the McCain campaign has attempted to correct the record.

Based on these reports, it seems the McCain camp is guilty of a major distortion of John McCain's true record, which is stridently anti-choice.

Chuck Todd, gently but firmly, says that reporters are overplaying the whole PUMA thing in large part because they are all in Denver and they don't have much else to cover. By Wednesday or Thursday, he says, reporters will be wondering why they were so obsessed with the story.

Yet another reason to love Chuck Todd's reporting. He truly is one of the very best -- and most honest -- journalists.

TJR Video Archive Blogging - June 4, 2008

...then you've probably got a problem. Take, for example, Mark Halperin on This Week yesterday. He actually said McCain's houses gaffe was the worst moment of the campaign -- for Barack Obama. Seriously.

The good news is that he was almost laughed off the set.

Posted yesterday on Barack Obama's YouTube Channel:

One thing that should now be obvious is that John McCain is incapable of restraint, and it's not working too well for him. The most recent example: his ads trying to drive a wedge between Hillary supporters and Obama supporters.

Instead of dividing Democrats, McCain's ads actually give Hillary a bigger platform from which to bring the party together, a platform from which she can deliver lines like "I am Hillary Clinton and I do not approve that message." They give her a chance to say:

"I just want to make it absolutely clear -- we cannot afford four more years of President Bush's failed policies," she said. "I am looking forward to being at the White House when President Obama signs quality, affordable health care for every American."

Whatever you think about Hillary Clinton's private desires, publicly she has been 110% behind Barack Obama. Now that McCain has run these ads, she's going to be 120% behind Obama, and she's going to be doing it during prime time on Tuesday night.

McCain and his merry band of Rovians might like the storyline today, but by Wednesday morning, they will regret their strategy.

TJR Video Archive Blogging -- Originally posted April 27, 2008

Michelle Obama prepares for her prime time speech tonight.

TJR Video Archive Blogging -- Originally posted June 15, 2008