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Inside Obama’s Marriage
Michelle and Barack Obama: The 21st Century Kennedys?
by Barbara Kantrowitz
BARACK OBAMA AND MICHELLE ROBINSON OBAMA
Married Since: 1992
Family Album: Two daughters
They met in 1989,while he was still a student at Harvard Law School (where he was the first black president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review). Barack was interning for a Chicago law firm, and Michelle was his summer supervisor. She later told a reporter that she fell for him “for the same reason many other people respect him: his connection with people.”
Throughout his political career, she has been an asset. A Princeton grad, she’s a Chicago native from the city’s South Side. That association helped him win seats both in the Illinois legislature and the Senate. Now an executive at the University of Chicago Hospitals, she’s savvy in dual roles as career woman and political wife. In an interview in The New Yorker, she was frank about the stress of the latter role: “It’s hard, and that’s why Barack is such a grateful man.”
The Obamas live in a $1.6 million house on the South Side, and he tries to make it back every weekend. Family life is a priority, which is why they haven’t moved to Washington. “We made a good decision to stay in Chicago, so that has kept our family stable,” Michelle told a reporter for The Chicago Tribune. “There has been very little transition for me and the girls. Now he’s commuting a lot, but he’s the senator. He can handle it. That’s really helped in keeping us grounded.”
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1 Rosa // May 15, 2008 at 7:53 pm
I still don’t like them.
2 Sally New // May 15, 2008 at 4:10 pm
“I think she will get better treatment—not because we are more accepting of a First Lady with a career but because she’s nicer, more feminine, more traditional as a woman,” says Love.
What a pathetic backward,misogynist rant this is. What is is doing in this article? Who is this person being quoted? It is absolutely not acceptable.
3 maria // May 15, 2008 at 2:42 pm
They are delightful indeed. It will be so nice to have an intelligent couple in the White House who are more like everyday americans. They are a class act. I hope we can keep him safe.
4 TexasFeminist // May 15, 2008 at 11:57 am
It will be sooo wonderful to have a family in the White House that Americans can actually respect, enjoy, identify with, and love again.
5 Michelle Obama Stumps For Husband // Jan 31, 2008 at 5:35 pm
[…] Michelle, particularly compared to some political spouses, is quite accomplished in her own right. Check out Tango’s article on the Obamas as a couple. At any rate, she actually reminds us of a young, likeable Hillary Clinton. We think he could […]
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