My message is to Michelle Obama… Michelle, I am a middle-aged wife and mother from a middle-income family. Our hometown is Makanda, IL, population 400 and former home of the late Senator Paul Simon. I have not been a serious politically active individual in the past; in fact, in the past 6 presidental elections, the candidate for whom I voted lost. I am active now because basically “I am bitter”. Yes, I said “bitter”. Instead of clinging to religion or guns, I cling to “quilting”; it takes my mind off the fact I have little to no control over my own destiny. No matter how hard we work, save and strive to achieve, each year just keeps getting more difficult. My husband and my jobs do not offer health insurance. We’re too rich to receive government assistance and too poor to be able to afford the outrageously high premiums. I have one daughter in college and another going in a couple years. Again, we’re too rich for assistance and too poor to pay the evergrowing college tuitions. We want the best for our family, so we do what we have to and we struggle. We are the middle class; we are forgotten. Hillary Clinton’s mother forgot to teach her “if you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all” or “some people have to put others down to make themselve feel bigger or better”. We all learned this as children, so rest assured, people are aware of what she’s doing. We can see that Barack is above this. He began speaking of change; and change includes eliminating the undermining, backstabing, and manipulative tactics that goes on in politics. So let Hillary flap her lips… In the meantime, remind your husband that the people like me, and there are a lot of us, appreciate his class and his character, and we are behind him all the way to the White House.