NYT: After Attacks, Michelle Obama Looks for a New Introduction

[RamboLiberal]

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But the 44-year-old woman known even to friends as The Taskmaster sometimes speaks with a passion unusual for a potential first lady. She tells voters that “Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual — uninvolved, uninformed.”

She says she intends to evoke a John F. Kennedy-like idealism and highlight her own journey, but in her commanding cadences, some people — and not just conservatives — hear a lecture.

Before her husband announced his candidacy, Mrs. Obama confided in friends: Barack and I will cut an unfamiliar figure to most of America.

“It’s such uncharted waters,” said Verna Williams, a Harvard classmate and friend. “In a sound-bite era, where you have to come with a quick and dirty take, she doesn’t fit what it means to be an African-American woman.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/us/politics/18michelle.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp

What a great first lady she will be! Very good article.

[Celticsfan]

1. I don't like the article title

It implies that what's being said about Michelle is true. In fact, most of it isn't.

[Number23]

2. Wow

two things just leap out at me from this article:

"“In a sound-bite era, where you have to come with a quick and dirty take, she doesn’t fit what it means to be an African-American woman.”"

What in the hell is this even supposed to mean?

"When the human papillomavirus vaccine, which can prevent cervical cancer, became available, researchers proposed approaching local school principals about enlisting black teenage girls as research subjects."

Son of a b*tch.... I'm absolutely speechless....