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Michelle met her future husband in 1988, when he took a summer job at the Chicago law firm Sidley & Austin, where she specialized in intellectual property law. Barack Obama remembers when first meeting his future wife, "that she was tall--almost my height in heels--and lovely, with a friendly, professional manner that matched her tailored suit and blouse.''
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Here in the Midwest, the highest compliment that can be paid someone who has done well in life is that he or she is "still so normal.'' -- from the Reader's Digest Michelle Obama Interview.
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Today Michelle Obama works in a medical center, but as an administrator for the University of Chicago Hospitals. She's on leave now but has quadrupled the number of volunteers who come in to lend a hand and rejuvenated a volunteer program to get a similar number of hospital employees to give time to the community--Michelle's old neighborhood--in their off-hours.
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She's also led a push to get patients who use the ER for routine care connected to neighborhood clinics instead, both to cut costs and to improve preventive care for low-income families.
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Michelle Obama stands with Oprah Winfrey, who was an early supporter of Barack Obama's campaign. "Oprah is a wonderful friend and an incredible force."
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In his first book, Dreams from My Father, her husband wrote of Michelle that "in her eminent practicality and Midwestern attitudes, she reminds me not a little of Toot,'' his maternal grandmother, the no-nonsense Kansan who raised him--and who, after meeting Michelle for the first time, pronounced her "a very sensible girl.''
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In a recent interview with Reader's Digest, Obama credits Michelle with creating a "zone of normalcy" for their daughters, Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10.
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At a rally last year in New Hampshire, Michelle described falling in love with her husband's ideals. "He talked about the simple notion that we as Americans understand the world as it is-and it is a world sometimes that is disappointing and unfair-but our job as American citizens is to work toward building the world as it should be."
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Michelle Obama waves to supporters at end of her speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.
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Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Senator Barack Obama walks with daughters Sasha and Malia, and wife Michelle after his speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Michelle's is a beauty ,dynamic and intellegent women, she's a pride of all african womens. Stop all racist act against Michelle Obama, she's a loving, and dynamic African American first lady into the White House. Don't be gealous of Michelle for what she is today, she deserves it!!! LOVE YOU MICHELLE OBAMA
Where in the world did this woman learn to dress???? She needs someone to help her!!!!
Michelle Obama is a superwoman!! SHe's a great mother, wife, and role model for all women of all races, ages, and cultures. She's a strong willed woman which is why people tend to have negative comments about her; they don't know her so they fear her strength. Michelle is beautiful, intelligent, and HUMBLE. I'm so proud to have Michelle Obama as my First Lady!!! N. Taylor Cleveland,OH
maybe she's tired of people taken her picture.. lol!
Looked at the Michelle Obama slide show - I still think she's one of the unhappiest looking rich women in America! Love the cartoons!