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Byline: Rebecca Johnson
Iowa in spring. A full nine months before the primaries, but Michelle Obama is already at work on her husband's behalf. The setting: the Chit-n-Chat coffee shop in Waukee. Population 9,213. Percentage of population that is white: 97.7. The subject: values. Hers and his. "I married my husband," she tells the crowd, composed equally of reporters and supporters, "because we shared the same Midwestern values: Keep your word, work hard, treat others with respect."
As a topic, it's a little disappointing. Who would ever come out in favor of shirking work? I had hoped for a little more of "He's a man, just a man"-the speech in which she ...