It's fair to criticize Michelle Obama

Barack Obama warns "lay off my wife." Well, Mrs. Obama is fair game when she speaks on his behalf at fund-raisers, entices super-delegates to side with the senator and has her own large staff to handle her events.

She is rightly taken to task when she says she has never been proud of her country until her husband became a viable candidate for the presidency.

What is she hiding when the thesis she wrote when at Princeton cannot be made public until the day after the general election?

Mrs. Obama has positioned herself to be up front and possible baggage in the senator's run for the highest office in the land.

Timothy D. O'Reilly

Chicago