I love the cyclical nature of The Coli lol.
I see both sides. I would caution harsh judgement of Mrs. Obama, however, because we simply do not know the nature of the Obama's relationship. Not to mention the fact that Obama, himself, has described his high school days in disparaging terms. What I find more questionable, however, is the elitism that permeates Mrs. Obama's comments.
While Mrs. Obama might try to portray herself as a "common person" the reality of her life is far from that. She went to Princeton for undergrad, Harvard Law school and has a brother who currently coaches a division 1 basketball program. Even though she didn't mean to, Mrs. Obama let out a little bit of the elitism that surely permeates her every day life. In my opinion, the most controversial aspect of what she said isn't that she called Barack a "bum" but rather that her standards of "bumness" inevitably lead to her having to call the mass majority of African-American males "bums". If she thinks that Barack was a bum in high school, even though he ended up getting a scholarship to go to Occidental college, what do you think she thinks about the average African-American male? I mean look at this graph, keep in mind that Obama went to college is 1979...