A brotherly portrait of Michelle Obama (great article on her quoting her brother, Craig Robinson)

[highplainsdem]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/372228_mobamaonline27.html


As I type this OP they have her first name misspelled (no final E) in the headline, but I imagine they'll catch that typo soon. Despite the silly typo, the article is well worth reading.

By KIM CHIPMAN
BLOOMBERG NEWS


Craig Robinson says the criticism of Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, shouldn't come as a surprise: "When you get to the Final Four, you aren't going to run up against guys who say, 'Well, we are happy to have gotten this far; you can have it.' "

Robinson, 46, knows what he's talking about: He's the head basketball coach at Oregon State University in Corvallis. He's also Michelle Obama's older brother, and few know her as well.

During a recruiting trip outside Los Angeles last week, Robinson provided a first-hand account of the woman who may become the next first lady. He dismissed any notion that she is an unpatriotic radical. Such charges -- satirized by a New Yorker magazine illustration showing her in the Oval Office with a rifle over her shoulder, and expressed without irony in an April National Review article dubbing her "Mrs. Grievance" -- are unfair portrayals of his sister, he says.

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Much more at the link. You'll love what he says about playing basketball with Obama for the first time...

[highplainsdem]

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2. You're right..I do. Thanks, hpd.

"Robinson, who coached at Brown University before moving to Oregon State, says he immediately took to Obama when his sister brought him home to meet the family.

That impression was confirmed after Michelle asked her brother to take Obama out on the basketball court.

"My father used to say you can tell a guy's personality on the basketball court," says Robinson. He reported back to his sister that Obama was a "great guy."

"My sister didn't have long-term boyfriends," Robinson says. "She didn't suffer any fools, so if there was any foolishness to him they wouldn't be married right now."

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5. You're welcome, zidzi!

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3. Nice story that only confirms my impressions of Michelle n/t

[Labors of Hercules]

4. Nice to see that we see what he sees.

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