ABC: Michelle Obama's Passions: Wife, Mother, Intellectual, American Woman

[highplainsdem]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5318847

by CLAIRE SHIPMAN, SUSAN RUCCI and EMILY YACUS
July 7, 2008

As this November's presidential election draws closer, many people want to know more about Michelle Obama. Who is this mother of two, who rose from the rough South Side of Chicago to become a force in her own right during this crucial run for the White House? And what drives her? One way to figure this out is to ask the people who have known her the longest, her family and friends.

They seem to be held in awe.

Close friend and businesswoman Valerie Jarrett says, "I don't think I've ever met anybody quite like Michelle."

"She's very genuine," says friend and fellow parent Yvonne Dalia, while her college roommate describes her as "your best girlfriend."

And her brother says simply, "She's good at what she's good at."

This is the puzzle that is Michelle Obama, the Target-shopping, blunt-talking, Jimmy Choo-wearing, fist-bumping potential first lady, as seen through the eyes of those closest to her.

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Much more at the link -- this is a four-page article -- plus video.

[highplainsdem]

1. No one's interested in a very favorable article about Michelle?

[Drunken Irishman]

6. Sorry, high, but we're only here to bash Obama.

No favorable articles, please.

[highplainsdem]

7. The favorable ones do tend to sink. This is a really nice article on Michelle, though, and I hope

everyone will read it.

[PM7nj]

10. It does seem that way.

Sad. There is going to be a shitstorm tomorrow. I think I will go back into hiding.

[Drunken Irishman]

12. What's tomorrow?

[Writer]

2. Now she IS a Gen-X'er.

:P

[PA Democrat]

3. Very nice article. Thanks for posting.

[CTyankee]

4. They're gonna do Cindy tomorrow on GMA. Can't wait to hear

all about her adulterous affair with McCain before he was divorced from his first wife, plus her druggie days, the theft at the nonprofit agency and how she framed an employee to take the blame.

Yep, she's real First Lady material, that one.

[PBS Poll-435]

5. She did not have an adulterous affair.

John McCain had an adulterous affair.

There is plenty of ammo, let's get it right.

[CTyankee]

15. OK, let's just say she had an affair with a married man.

Same deal. She was "involved" in an adulterous affair, obviously, because her sex partner was an adulterer. So fine, we can leave it at that.

Then, we move on to the other stuff...

[PBS Poll-435]

19. No, not the same deal

The definition of "adultery" is very clear.

Let's stick to arguments that are supported by facts.

Or Webster's.

[CTyankee]

21. OK, let's call her the sex partner of a married man and leave out the word adultery.

Some people would call her "homewrecker." Whatever, I don't think a person having an affair with another person's spouse (while they were still married) is an honorable person or a moral person. Certainly not in any lexicon that the "family values" Republicans purport to believe in.

The hypocrisy alone is, to me, revolting enough.

[Hope And Change]

8. K & R!

[politicasista]

9. K&R

:kick:

[grace0418]

11. I just love her. She's fantastic.

What a breath of fresh air she will be after 8 years of the Stepford Wife from Hell.

[tishaLA]

13. Hard to believe ABC did a nice piece about Michelle

The way they have mercilessly gone after Sen Obama has been deplorable.

[Eyes_wide_ open]

14. How can anyone not like Michelle?

She's beautiful, smart, funny and above all GENUINE! Nothing fake, plastic, or "Stepford" about her.

Wonderful piece :thumbsup:

[DeepModem Mom]

16. K&R!

[Canuckistanian]

17. In that order?

I think that'll play well, although I have few beefs about the "wife first" angle.

She's a strong, substantive woman who doesn't need to be defined by her husband.

[Kdillard]

18. Kick

Nice article on Michelle.

[NattPang]

20. The video available at the link

was great!