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Day 18 - Michelle Obama
Mar. 18th, 2018 12:32 pmMichelle Obama
On January 20, 2009, Michelle Robinson Obama became the first African American First Lady when her husband, Barack Obama, became the first African American president. I personally found her quite charming. I loved seeing her strength as she got out of the car and walked with her husband down the street to the White House.
I remember watching a NASCAR race on TV at Homestead Florida at which Mrs. Obama and Jill Biden were grand marshals to promote their Joining Forces, an initiative to promote jobs for returning vets. They were booed and I felt ashamed of Americans for being such backwards, racist morons.
Michelle was born in Chicago in 1964. Both sides of her family descended from slaves in the south, mostly South Carolina and Georgia. After high school, she followed her brother to Princeton. Some of her teachers in school had urged her NOT to set her goals to high but she ignored them. She later said this was the first time she’d felt singled out for her race. She graduated from Princeton and went to Harvard Law.
She met Barack Obama when he was a summer associate at her law firm and they dated 2 years before marrying and they have two daughters.
Michelle has made several moving speeches in support of her husband and other Democratic candidates, as well her own projects: Veterans’ jobs, fitness for children including an organic garden and beehives on the white House lawn. There are some who have called on her to run for president in 2020.
As she is such an intelligent, articulate woman, I hope we have not seen the last of her.
Two portraits as First Lady:
The Obamas:
And finally from the 2016 Democratic Convention:
On January 20, 2009, Michelle Robinson Obama became the first African American First Lady when her husband, Barack Obama, became the first African American president. I personally found her quite charming. I loved seeing her strength as she got out of the car and walked with her husband down the street to the White House.
I remember watching a NASCAR race on TV at Homestead Florida at which Mrs. Obama and Jill Biden were grand marshals to promote their Joining Forces, an initiative to promote jobs for returning vets. They were booed and I felt ashamed of Americans for being such backwards, racist morons.
Michelle was born in Chicago in 1964. Both sides of her family descended from slaves in the south, mostly South Carolina and Georgia. After high school, she followed her brother to Princeton. Some of her teachers in school had urged her NOT to set her goals to high but she ignored them. She later said this was the first time she’d felt singled out for her race. She graduated from Princeton and went to Harvard Law.
She met Barack Obama when he was a summer associate at her law firm and they dated 2 years before marrying and they have two daughters.
Michelle has made several moving speeches in support of her husband and other Democratic candidates, as well her own projects: Veterans’ jobs, fitness for children including an organic garden and beehives on the white House lawn. There are some who have called on her to run for president in 2020.
As she is such an intelligent, articulate woman, I hope we have not seen the last of her.
Two portraits as First Lady:
The Obamas:
And finally from the 2016 Democratic Convention: