KC Star: Obama watches from KC as wife addresses delegates (O was very nervous-awwwww-more details)

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Obama watches from KC as wife addresses delegates

By STEVE KRASKE
The Kansas City Star


Barack Obama appeared Monday at the Democratic convention in a video feed from Kansas City. He talked with his wife, Michelle Obama, and daughters after her speech.

The Barack Obama whom many Americans know typically is a pillar of confidence.
Monday night at the Brookside home of Jim and Alicia Girardeau, he was a nervous wreck.
The presumptive Democratic nominee picked the Girardeaus’ living room to watch his wife’s opening-night speech. For most of the time he sat like a statue.

“It’s nerve-racking,” he said as his wife took the stage at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, where he’ll deliver his own big speech Thursday night at Invesco Field at Mile High, where the NFL’s Broncos play.
After a pause, he added, “She’s pretty cute.”

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His nervousness showed — not so much in what Obama did but in what he didn’t do. He barely moved. He hardly brandished emotion. He said little, even as his wife described their hardscrabble upbringings, their courtship and their dreams for the nation.

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Only at the very end, as Michelle Obama dedicated their campaign “in honor of my father’s memory and my daughters’ future,” did the senator from Illinois lighten up. A smile streaked across his once-solemn face, and he looked up at the Girardeaus and the assembled reporters.

As Michelle finished, Obama turned toward the Girardeaus and the assembled media and said: “So what do you think? She’s pretty good, huh? She’s pretty good.”
Pausing and smiling, he then repeated: ”I thought she was pretty good. She was fantastic.”
He then said he was glad they didn’t pan to his mother-in-law because he would have gotten choked up.

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So Sweet. :loveya:

[nickyt]

1. To me, he didn't look so much "nervous" as "exhausted"...he'll recover, though! -

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4. I'm sure he was nervous. He had no control. He wanted her to do great and she did.

He loves her so, of course, he was nervous for her. I think it would be odd if he wasn't.

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2. He was most likely nervous or anxious for his wife

They truly look like a model family and it shows in events like last night.

[ecstatic]

3. If my husband ever ran for president, he would be screwn

There is no way in hell I would ever make a speech in front of all those people!

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5. He wanted her to do well...so cute!

I loved this quote:

“I’m not surprised. When she does something, she does it well,” he said.

His obvious respect for Michelle warms my heart. :)

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