Corn on “Hardball”: Michelle Obama Helping Health Care Reform?

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On a day when the politerati focused on President Barack Obama’s press conference (Iran, health care, Iran, health care, the economy, smoking, Iran), Chris Matthews, Richard Wolffe, and I went off-topic to discuss whether Michelle Obama can help her husband sell the health care bill now under construction in Congress. We then moved on to the “disappearance” of GOP South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.

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