park your car and that s the last time you get in your car. you walk everywhere. nice village. road trip. let s do a show from up there. i would like to do that. andrea has been there. only because i was covering the camp, the hillary campaign for senate. andrea, pat moynihan lived about 15 miles from cooperstown. in fact, i did once go with pat moynihan. of course you did. really. that s where she was kicking off the race. we re joined by politico s chief white house correspondent mike allen with the morning playbook. let s start with michele obama and how she s playing a role in the president s campaign as it pertains maybe with the middle class. this is fascinating. she became such an asset at the end of the 2008 campaign after a rough start. but now they re using her in a different way. one of the few barriers between president obama and voters has been these little bit of exotic, the harvard thing, and she s been helping with that, as she s been on the road.