Michelle shares a moment with daughter Sasha as Barack addresses a crowd gathered at a campaign rally at Iowa State University on Febr. 11, 2007.
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Michelle poses with, from l., Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver and Oprah Winfrey at a rally for Barack Obama UCLA on Feb. 3, 2008.
Michelle arrives to a ‘Get Out The Vote Rally’ at Pauley Pavillion on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, Calif. on Feb. 3, 2008.
Michelle cheers children as they play a spelling game at the Old Dominion University Child Study Center in Norfolk, Virg. in August.
Michelle listens during an economic round table for women in Denver, Colo. on Aug. 26, 2008.
Michelle gestures as she speaks with Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden, and his wife Jill at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 26, 2008.
Michelle’s daughter Sasha rests on her mother’s her lap as they listen to Barackgive his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo. on Aug. 28, 2008.
Michelle speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo. on Aug. 25, 2008.
Along the campaign trail, Michelle Obama was known both for her Jackie O. style and for keeping things real. Take a look at the woman poised to be the next Queen of Camelot. Above, Michelle makes an appearance on ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ in New York on Oct.8, 2008.
Barack Obama will leave the campaign trail for two days this week to visit his seriously ill grandmother in Hawaii, the Democratic candidate’s spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said Monday.
“Senator Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has always been one of the most important people in his life. Along with his mother and his grandfather, she raised him in Hawaii from the time he was born until the moment he left for college. As he said at the Democratic Convention, she poured everything she had into him,” said Gibbs in a statement.
“Recently, his Grandmother has become ill, and in the last few weeks, her health has deteriorated to the point where her situation is very serious. It is for that reason that Senator Obama has decided to change his schedule on Thursday and Friday so that he can see her and spend some time with her.”
The campaign is set to resume on Saturday. Read more…
Michelle Obama gave the kind of intimate, emotional endorsement only a wife could give in her headlining speech kicking off the Democratic National Convention on Monday night.
She recalled her husband, Barack Obama, as a nervous new dad, before the hype and hoopla of his life on the national stage, and said he has not been changed by politics. “He’s the same man who drove me and our new baby daughter home from the hospital 10 years ago this summer,” said Michelle, “inching along at a snail’s pace, peering anxiously at us in the rearview mirror, feeling the whole weight of her future in his hands … [He was] determined to give her what he never had, the affirming embrace of a father’s love.” Read more…