In this campaign, Michelle Obama became more than just another political voice
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — When Michelle Obama delivered the most influential speech of the 2016 campaign in an out-of-the-way stop in New Hampshire, she suddenly and somewhat unexpectedly commanded the spotlight with her emotional account of how Donald Trump's private words about women's bodies had "shaken me to my core."
Though she spoke this month while much of the country was seeing for the first time video of Trump's lewd bragging, Obama had been working on the address for weeks, incorporating her growing concern about the Republican presidential nominee's many insults of women into a polemic that drew from her own experiences of being verbally harassed on the street and ogled at work.
"I feel it so personally." she said. "The shameful comments about our bodies. The disrespect of our ambitions and intellect. The belief that you can do anything you want to a woman."
The speech, amplified by timing and met with an enthusiastic response, cemented Obama's place as a star of the presidential race and put a defining stroke not just on how women view Trump, but also on herself as a voice of moral authority. Three months before leaving the White House, she already is among the ranks of public figures who transcend politics and title.
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