• • Michelle’s personal story a political triumph 
Cynthia Tucker, CNN Individualism  | After Michelle Obama’s speech Tuesday night, it will be very difficult for her critics to portray her as angry or aggrieved. She rarely raised her voice. She smiled, she charmed, she seemed to tear up. She said not an unkind thing about her political opponents. Indeed, she never mentioned them. [....] She deftly deflected Republican accusations of class envy: “Our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did. ... In fact, they admired it.” But she also noted that Democrats don’t believe in Ayn Rand’s hyperindividualism. “We learned about gratitude and humility -- that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean ... and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.”   Published: 2012-09-05