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Michelle Obama, the future first lady of the White House, will be more scrutinized than any first lady in history says American Wife author Curtis Sittenfeld.
Sittenfeld’s book, American Wife, is a novel based loosely on current first lady Laura Bush. She says that although Obama will be more analyzed than any woman ever in her position, she will be able to handle the scrutiny because of her history.
“That phenomenon of being overanalyzed and having people see all your behaviour as symbolic is probably something that she has experienced for most of her life, certainly more than most white first ladies,” Sittenfeld told the Financial Times of Germany.
Like so many other women in America, Michelle Obama will have to be able to balance work and home while in the spotlight. This may give her a voice for the many American women who struggle with that balance.
But her husband points out in his book The Audacity of Hope that she is not the type to go into politics because she doesn’t “have the patience.”
Just by stepping into the White House, Michelle Obama makes history as the first black first lady, and perhaps delivering a powerful message to women.
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Speaking at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas this week, Michelle Obama said her husband’s humble beginnings, as well as her own, will help him to win the hearts of the American public and therefore the presidency.
The aspiring first lady credited her father, who worked despite having multiple sclerosis, with giving her the values she needed to succeed and train to be a lawyer, the Las Vegas Sun reports.
Meanwhile, she said that Barack’s mother dying at the age of 53 and his subsequently getting jobs in the poorer parts of Chicago will help him to relate to the economic struggle that many Americans are experiencing today.
“Don’t we deserve a president who understands what it’s like to carry a little loan debt? Your man’s Barack Obama. He gets it. He doesn’t get it in some theoretical, disconnected, philosophical type of way – he’s lived it,” she commented.
Michelle and Barack met when she was working at a law firm and was assigned as an advisor to him in 1989.
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Potential future first lady Michelle Obama found herself discussing her wardrobe and her children’s reaction to their father’s television appearances when she appeared on Jay Leno’s chat show this week.
Asked where she had bought the yellow outfit she was sporting, the trained lawyer said it was an online bargain from J Crew.
However, she declined to comment when pressed by the host on claims that Sarah Palin had spent $150,000 of Republican National Committee money on designer clothes during her presidential campaign.
She did say, however, that she and her husband have a policy of spending their own money on their own clothes.
Michelle also revealed that ten-year-old Malia’s only reaction to Barack’s program on television this week was simply to check that he would not be on instead of her favorite children’s shows.
The wife of the Democratic candidate appeared in Las Vegas earlier this week in order to promote her husband to voters.
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A number of Barack Obama’s former Harvard professors have spoken about how they remember the potential future president and his wife from their law school days.
Meeting at a rally within the university’s law school, Professors Randall Kennedy and David Wilkins among others told attendees how Michelle Obama’s characteristics then could be helping her husband’s presidential campaign now.
Professor Wilkins said that Michelle always proved herself as a team player and possessed the same “integrity and calm” as Barack did, reports the <i>Harvard Law Record</i>.
He added that when she spoke, people listened and that she always had the courage of her convictions.
Meanwhile, Professor Kennedy said he always found the potential first lady as “quiet, determined and well organized,” although he acknowledged that she has developed more poise through her campaign engagements.
A trained lawyer, Michellle has been closely involved with her husband’s presidential campaign and has participated in a number of engagements all over the U.S.
She is no stranger to politics, having participated in demonstrations advocating the hiring of professors who are members of minorities during her time at Harvard.
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Potential future first lady Michelle Obama has visited Wisconsin to discuss the role of women in the upcoming elections.
She encouraged them to get involved in politics by registering as a voter and discussing the election with their neighbors.
Ms. Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, said that the female vote is tremendously important and commented that women have an opportunity to expand their horizons with their right to do so.
“The truth is ladies, women get it done. Women get it done and men help too, but this race can be decided on our shoulders as women. That’s how we built this movement,” she said at an appearance in West Allis.
She also spoke publicly in Madison and Wausau while her husband appeared in Green Bay, drawing large crowds.
In related news, Ms. Obama, a trained lawyer, has been voted as the best role model for young girls by an Every Woman Counts poll, beating Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Cindy McCain and Jill Biden.
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Michelle Obama, the wife of the Democratic presidential nominee and possible future first lady, is to appear at a public engagement in Virginia this week.
A trained lawyer, she has been closely involved with her husband’s presidential campaign and has participated in a number of engagements all over the U.S.
Ms. Obama will make her way to Richmond and Charlottesville, Virginia, tomorrow (September 17), where she will host an economic roundtable and a Women for Obama voter registration rally.
It has also been reported that she will be joined at the rally by Lilly Ledbetter, a woman from Alabama who took her employers to the Supreme Court after a dispute over unequal pay.
According to ABC 13, the number of voters in Virginia has increased by 211,000 since January 1 and is now home to almost 4.8 million voters.
Ms. Obama recently traveled to Indiana, where she met with working-class women in order to discuss the economy and the tribulations of juggling family life with a job amid the current economic climate.
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Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, is to travel to Indiana for a public engagement, it has emerged.
According to the Indianapolis Star, the potential future first lady will chair a roundtable discussion in the so-called Hoosier state’s capital this Wednesday (September 10th).
She will meet with working-class women in order to discuss the economy and the tribulations of juggling family life with a job amid the current economic climate.
In August, Ms Obama met working women in Denver for a similar discussion, along with Democratic vice-presidential nominee Senator Joe Biden.
One of the aims of the Democratic campaign is to promote family values and strengthen the profile of working women.
The Obamas have two young daughters of their own, who appeared onstage at the recent Democratic convention in Denver.
Michelle Obama, who met Barack at law school, is no stranger to politics, having participated in demonstrations advocating the hiring of professors who are members of minorities during her time at Harvard.
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