he did stop short of saying whether he helped sasha and malia with their science homework at night. molly, there are some who suggested this was a political timing, something to put up the obama campaign. you can t, you know, ignore the fact that we are in a political season here, but this did seem particularly heartfelt. i think there s no doubt that it s also political, not just the timing of it and we ve seen the polling come out and we re already having this conversation about republicans losing women voters and this seems to me to be a clear case of the obama campaign/administration looking to press its advantage and really push that message of what all of the things that he has done for that he says help women. how do you think, then, republican spin will come out of this? what do you expect? we heard the president say women are not an interest group and a monolithic block. i think if you re a republican and you watched this speech you