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.