[patriotspride]

If you get a chance watch it again.

I sat there with my wife watching for it, as I found it odd that she spent more time on her brother, and father, and left out her Mom who was in the audience.

Only oblique reference was I stand here as a daughter.....

This slight, tells me a lot about what she is all about.

[Huck]

There were direct references to both her mom and her dad:

And I come here as a daughter -- raised on the South Side of Chicago by a father who was a blue collar city worker, and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. My mother's love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, and her intelligence reflected in my own daughters.

My Dad was our rock. Although he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in his early thirties, he was our provider, our champion, our hero. But as he got sicker, it got harder for him to walk, it took him longer to get dressed in the morning. But if he was in pain, he never let on. He never stopped smiling and laughing -- even while struggling to button his shirt, even while using two canes to get himself across the room to give my Mom a kiss. He just woke up a little earlier, and worked a little harder.

He and my mom poured everything they had into me and Craig. It was the greatest gift a child could receive: never doubting for a single minute that you're loved, and cherished, and have a place in this world. And thanks to their faith and their hard work, we both were able to go on to college. So I know firsthand from their lives -- and mine -- that the American Dream endures.

She spent an extra paragraph on her dad, presumably because his was a tail of overcoming hardship. I would also venture a guess that given the state of black families in America, particularly absent fathers, they wanted to draw extra emphasis on her dad being there as the breadwinner.

But she did honor her mom as well.

[goldstategop]

Its all about her. I would think a child would take a few minutes to mention her mother who was there. Why the oversight? I just commented about the Democratic Party's being a bunch of hollow men (and now women) and liberalism is all about gratification of the ego. There's nothing in it for others. Ted Kennedy disdained our troops. Michelle Obama can't find it in herself to pay tribute to her mother. There's a pattern here and I think you helped to counteract everything positive I said about Michelle and her family as people earlier this morning. For others it may be about feelings (overdone Oprah-ization of America) but for me its about values. That my friends, is what distinguishes the conservative from the liberal on the key importance of matters in life.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus