We Have a Michelle Obama Sighting

The Barack Obama camp has seemingly kept Michelle Obama in the Witness Protection program ever since her infamous comments about America being "downright mean."

Apparently now they feel enough time has passed (it has been six weeks) and they've sufficiently prepped her so they're comfortable enough releasing her back into public view.

So she surfaced Tuesday at Haverford College in Pennsylvania in an attempt at defending her husband's elitist remarks last week before the chablis-and-brie crowd in San Francisco.

Then, referring to her husband’s student loans, she added sarcastically: “Now when is the last time you’ve seen a president of the United States who just paid off his loan debt? But, again, maybe I’m out of touch.”

Rebutting critics who called her husband’s remarks about economic bitterness out of touch, Mrs. Obama asked the crowd, “Am I telling you something that you don’t know? Am I in touch?”

She also stressed that her husband, raised by a young single mother, “didn’t grow up with a silver spoon in his mouth.”

Neither did I. Nor did I attend the most prestigious prep school in Hawaii or attend Ivy League colleges.

So, Mrs. Obama, who really cares? You two sure act like elitists now. Doesn't matter what the circumstances were 30 years ago. You are being judged by your actions and words today. And, according to your husband, words count.

Frankly, people don't like the words they hear coming out of your mouth.

Then she stopped by for a twinkie-munch session with pretend TV newsman Stephen Colbert.

“You’re a very good-looking lady,” he said, comparing her style to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. (And, we have to say, Mrs. Obama was looking rather chic in a bright blue sleeveless boatneck dress.)

Mrs. Obama, though, did not return the compliments. After imploring Mr. Colbert to serenade her (to make her husband “a little jealous”) — which he obliged, crooning “L is for the way you look at me” — Mrs. Obama said her husband “has a better voice.”

She also used her late-night appearance as a platform to talk about why women voters are turning to her husband. She said that folks who pay too much attention to polls showing Hillary Rodham Clinton with a large percentage of the female vote in Pennsylvania are making “a mistake.”

“Many women like myself who are independent, strong, focused, who care about family values, who know that Barack is special, that he has something unique to offer the country, and that his perspective is really gonna change the lives of working women, he understands because he’s living with me,” Mrs. Obama said.

Yes, but we also understand you're a snobby elitist who hates America.

No amount of lame softball interviews will change that perception, gushing stories from the New York Times notwithstanding.

Update: Allahpundit's got the Colbert video. About as lame as you'd expect.