cbs 20080826 MICHELLE

Michelle Obama does not play fair.  This is DR... this week from Denver.

Party conventions are tough crowds.  And when you're camped way up in the press box at the Pepsi Center, and I mean waaay up there where they hang the popes' hats, you can tell when the audience is paying attention.  Most of the time they drown out the PA system up there.  But Caroline Kennedy -- QUIET.  Ted Kennedy -- crowd erupts when he comes out -- then quiet.

And then Michelle Obama -- so quiet I could hear a cell phone rigning 5 stories down.

Everybody knew what her job was:  to be normal.  To be Jacqueline Kennedy in off the rack clothes.

So we heard about her blue collar dad and stay at home mom, how her favorite show was The Brady Bunch... then some respect for Hillary... a Joe Biden mention, some love of country... how dedicated Barack is to all the right things... and then, she played the father daughter card.   And then the the "tucking the children in at night card"...

And then -- the children come out on stage, and they are so cute, and we know how much their dad loves them, and the dads in the crowd, who are all away from home, wonder if they've loved their children that much -- and then, on the video screen, there's Barack calling in to talk to the kids -- like one of those cell phone ads where the dad is on the business trip and he reads the kids a story from his room at the Motel 6... how are we supposed to stay objective?

And then little Sasha picks up the microphone...

I thought this was supposed to be a clean fight.

Now this.