Wednesday, June 18, 2008
A look at the more popular candidates wife
Not that such means a lot, but if you only knew soundbite stuff'n nonsense about Michelle Obama, the NY Times has a must read campaign bio for you.
“I looked out at my neighborhood and sort of had an epiphany that I had to bring my skills to bear in the place that made me,” she says in the interview. “I wanted to have a career motivated by passion and not just money.”It's hard to believe that in this day and age she thinks she can be First Lady without ever having killed a boyfriend or stolen any drugs. Such is the stuff dreams are made of.
Eventually, she started the Chicago chapter of a training program called Public Allies. One day, looking for young leaders, she might knock on doors at Cabrini-Green, a public housing project so violent and neglected it would later be mostly demolished. Another day, she discovered Jose A. Rico, a young Mexican so alienated that he insisted on remaining an illegal immigrant rather than pursue citizenship. What is your goal? he recalled her asking.
To open a high school for Latinos, he replied. Mrs. Obama nodded: Good, tell me exactly how you would do it.
“Michelle was tough, man; she let nothing slide,” said Mr. Rico, now principal of Multicultural Arts High School in Chicago, which he helped start.
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