I was watching PBS and saw a woman commenting on choice of a wife. They pointed out that he chose an obviously black woman, a tall woman (6'+), a smart woman and a woman with a great education. Obama clearly isn't threatened by those qualities.

"Suddenly, in walked Michelle Obama who has one God-given advantage in any room, that at well over six foot she is the tallest person there."
-Vicky Ward, Evening Standard

"She's traded in her solid gold résumé, high-octane talent and role as vice president of community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals to be a professional wife and hostess … Just as we watch curvy, healthy-looking singers and actresses like Lindsay Lohan become anorexic too-blonde hoochies before our very eyes, so we're now in danger of having to watch the political version of that process."
-Debra Dickerson, Salon.com

Helluva lady. Hillary was a Yale Law School graduate, but didn't do much with it. And the rest of them may have been nice people, like Rosalind Carter, or not nice, like Barbara Bush, or slightly nuts, like Nancy Reagan, but certainly didn't bring to the party what Michelle Obama does.

Arf