Michelle Obama Gets "Fired Up" as A Campaigner

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT/Reuters: Michelle Obama Gets "Fired Up" as A Campaigner
By REUTERS
Published: August 18, 2007

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (Reuters) - Harvard-educated lawyer Michelle Obama says she never imagined herself in Council Bluffs, Iowa, pumping up a crowd of supporters on a hot August day. But the 43-year-old Chicago mother of two and former corporate lawyer has thrown herself into the campaign to get her husband Barack elected U.S. president in 2008, after years of keeping a low profile.

She says it was a hard decision.

"This wasn't an easy decision for us because we've got two beautiful little girls and we have a wonderful life, and everything was going fine," she told several hundred supporters this week in a school gymnasium here. "And nothing would have been more disruptive than choosing to run for president of the United States."...

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Supporters crowd around Michelle after her husband's stump speech, and she takes time to hear their stories, answer their questions, and urge them to vote for Obama.

She said she had never imagined being up on a stage in a presidential campaign. "No, absolutely not. Absolutely not," she said in an interview in a coffee shop in the central Iowa town of Grinnell.

"I am very passionate about change in the country and that's what you see." "I am really worried that we won't make the right decision this time around. And I'm really going to put everything that I have into making sure that people understand what's at stake and that we are thinking with our heads and not with fear."

Obama said she and her husband are struggling to minimize the impact the campaign has on their two daughters, Malia, 9 and Sasha, 6. "We worry about it all the time. We really try to structure it so they're not on the road a lot," she said. "They're on it when they have breaks and vacation and they want to come."...

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-usa-politics-obama-wife.html

[Colobo]

1. Our Next First Lady!

[Cha]

2. I'm so ectacic that we

have Michelle Obama out on the Dem campaign trail as well as Elizabeth Edwards.

[shireen]

3. she's pretty cool

she'd make a great first lady. So would Gert Clark, Elizabeth Edwards, Tipper Gore, and Elizabeth Kucinich! (listed alphabetically for fairness) :)

[ljm2002]

4. Hey, you forgot Bill!

Yes I know, not a First Lady. But he would be a First Gentleman, and that would be cool too!

[Kahuna]

5. I love Michelle. She rocks.

:yourock:

[venable]

6. self delete