The subject of the day in a special edition of The View was guest-host Michelle Obama, but I think that the breakfast segment towards the end should have been the central theme. I've never seen more egging and waffling served on network TV after eleven.

Obama was the perfect View guest-host, of course, with her Mom-friendly bob, floral-print dress, and insight into the issues that surround the American woman—which are, in her words, being "a wife," "a mom," and "a citizen." How inoffensive!

Her comments on Barack's recent Father's day speech confused us:

"We need to talk about what government needs to do and the changes we need to make in our policies, but we also need to talk about accountability—and not just among fathers but how we raise our kids, but what we do in terms of ensuring that parents are doing what they need to do for education. It just expands the globe of what we need to do."

What?

There was another charming moment when Michelle clutched her heart to lament about her initial fears of Barack's decision to run for office. "He's such a sweet and pathetic man," she said in the Freudian slip of the campaign. (Or was it?)

Elizabeth, Sherri, Joy, Whoopi, and Barbara (whose delayed reactions and freakishly tan legs made your writer a little uncomfortable) were, of course, just as quaint as Michelle. I loved it when Matthew Broderick, Babs, and Whoopi engaged in a festive round of fist bumping followed by a giggly self-congratulatory acknowledgment of each other's newly acquired street cred. Nothing says daytime programming like a little gentrified hip-hop culture!

The best part of the segment by far was when flustered dietician Elizabeth Somers threw her hands up towards the end of the show. "You guys are hopeless!" she laughed/wailed. "Hopeless!"

True that, breakfast woman. True that.