President and First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at a campaign rally at Alliant Energy Amphitheater. Michelle Obama praised the president and his first term, and emphasized his middle-class background calling him the “son of a mother who struggled” and the grandson of a woman who watched as men she trained were promoted ahead of her. The president criticized Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s budget and proposals to cut Medicare, referring to the plan as “trickle-down snake oil.”