Lynn Sweet

It was nice to see a bit of the 'real' Michelle Obama in action.
No cleaveage---no pink top. Professional. Adult. Womanly.
But this woman has opened up a chasm in relations among even liberal women (black v. white)--a strange feat.
The Obamas will not win without Senator Hillary Clinton and President Bill Clinton--the latter of which has helped the Dems and even Obama throughout this extended primary.
Michelle and Barack have some fences to mend.
And, yes, they owe Geraldine Ferraro an apology.
And Barack is going to need to speak with Don Imus (strengthened by that nonsense about comments more wisely ignored).

That's Sweet of Mrs. Obama...What happens if she decides that she's not proud to be an American again?

I can't imagine this thing as our First lady. Hillary was bad, but this will be the very bottom of the barrel. I don't think it will happen with all the past this man has. It would be a Sad day for America. It's not a Black thing. It's a racist anit-American Mr. and Mrs. Obama thing. Hezbollah is rooting for them. Obama aide wants talks with terrorists Hezbollah! That's all I need to know.

Can anyone please explain to me why Michelle Obama seems so angry all the time? It seems to me like life in these "mean" United States has been pretty good to her and yet she is always scowling and strident. It's hard to imagine her representing us in the role of a gracious First Lady. I'm sure she is smart and most definitely she is strong, but the lady really needs to chill out.

This is such a wonderful time in our country, when the 2 leading candidates for the Democratic nomination are members of groups who did not have the right to vote, in the early days of our country. It's historic that Barack Obama, who represents two dominant races and two dominant continents, in our nation's history, is the presumptive Democratic nominee and the next president of the United States.
The fact that Obama will deliver his acceptance speech for the party's nomination 45 years to the day, after King's "I have a Dream" speech, says there is something divine at work here.
I'm so proud of our country and all Americans. I believe our party will come together, based on what we have in common, rather than what divides us. I am so very proud to be an American!

Wanakee Hill

If I were Michelle, I wouldn't be measuring for the White House drapes just yet. Yowzer, talk about presumptuous.

Wendy

too bad michele is out with valerie wilson...i'd stay away from people like that until after november...and hillary has the ad with them in it...sorta weird...

I don't think it matters about the Wilsons endorsement. They were outed by the bush administration because of a war that hillary voted for! A little hypocritical to say the least.

I like Cindy better.

Ummm.... Where is the part about what Michelle would do as 1st lady?

Michelle doesn't strike me as a messenger of hope. She seems to have a big chip on her shoulder. A very bitter & actually somewhat angry person. As a matter of fact I would have to say that compared to Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton seems warm and sultry.

And just what does"continue these conversations like the ones I've had with these incredible women across the country. I want to ensure that their voices don't get drowned out ever again in Washington" mean specifically? Michelle Obama says nothing new here -- or is she so removed from reality that she is not aware of the significant strides women's issues (and women) have made not only in Washington but all over the country?

I wish she had the dignity we've come to expect from our First Ladies? She's too much the complainer who can't seem to find anything good and decent about the country that gave her every opportunity (which she obviously took great advantage of). She has no "style."

"I want to ensure that their voices don't get drowned out ever again in Washington." Yeah! That Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has sure made it hard for women to be heard in Washington!

Maybe Michelle should wait until Barack has the nomination much less the election.

Maybe Michelle should wait until Barack has the nomination much less the election.

One has to wonder where these people lived before they hit the campaign trail. Do these people have relatives? ( Obama seems to have none, because we never see any of his numerous half-siblings)
Hillary and now Michelle act as if they had no idea of the plight of women before they encountered them on the campaign trail, and to be sure those were women who were sympathetic to their candidate. Maybe government and politics would be more real and effective if it involved people who live in the real world.

Don't worry about it, Michelle. There's no way Americans will elect such racist bigots into the White House. After November, you will be free to go back to complaining about the oppression you face as an elitist race-baiting gadfly who has never been without that silver spoon in your mouth.

Very misleading headline==in passing Michele comments are cited and then you go on to V Plame...not even in the same class.

(For context --I am a middle aged white guy who has a long Republican (but not partisan) leaning, who was totally converted when I read The Audacity of Hope, and have been a supporter ever since.)

I find the entire family to represent exactly why I have hope for this country. Michelle is a feisty and honest woman. I will be proud to have her and Obama represent me as an American.

It is a shame that Hillary and Bill are so intent on destroying the Obamas simply to promote their failed agenda. In my pre-Obama conversion I acquired a greater respect for the Clintons as I saw what a disaster Bush was. They extinguished that respect very quickly.

Good luck to this wonderful family. The nation will be lucky to see you win.

God help us if that woman becomes first lady. Is she going to continue her complaining how hard she has it, paying off loans, chauffeuring her girls from one appointment to the other while making $400K/year as an "administrator"? If she had class she would be grateful to have been born in our country where she had every advantage bestowed upon her because she is black. I understand that Ms. Obama was admitted to a top university with substandard grades, what else does one need to know about this ingrate? The constitution speaks of "pursuit of happiness" it doesn't guarantee it.

Here we go again
another first lady that thinks she is a co-president
didn't we learn with the Clintons??

The title of this article is Michelle Obama talks about her role if she is First Lady. I would like to see Mrs. Obama address many of the remarks she has made both in speeches and articles concerning her dislike for this country.

This is really a non issue, Michelle needn't worry about being first lady - as McCain has this election in the bag considering that about half of Clinton's supporters have said in multiple polls that they will either vote for McCain or not vote at all. So like I said - this is all talk for nothing.

what a scary thought having Michelle Obama as first lady

Amazing. Mrs. Obama trying to be the "frist Lady" is absolutely ridiculous. She has such anger and bigotry issues that I cannot image her managing to keep her "image" as a President's wife. She will ultimately make Mrs. Clinton's tenure as first Lady seem meek and mellow. I pray this woman never steps foot in the White House except as a visitor because she is a self-centered, divisive person.

Thank GOD she won't be able to fullfil her wish.

You hubby ain't getting elected sweetie.

PUKE PUKE. GIVE ME A BREAK. Its no wonder the DNC is so disorganized and a weak party. Hillary start your own party, if it aint you Hillary then were voting McCain. Dont give up Hillary, everyday your supporters are making it clear we will not support Obama.

I feel that Michele Obama will be an excellent first lady and we are very fortunate that in addition to a great leader like Senator Obama there is such an intelligent, well spoken, wise woman to act as our first lady.

In the Philadelphia debate, both Hillary and Obama regurgitated their familiar mantra that they would veto the falsely maligned Bush taxcuts which resuscitated the U.S. economy from the inherited Clinton recession; but, which Hillary and Obama say favor only the rich. That tired old populist ploy of "soak the rich". However , a brief review of IRS statistics related to post-Bush tax cut revenues reveals exactly the opposite. Specifically, the share of individual income taxes paid by the bottom 40% of American taxpayers, as a result of expanded child tax credits and earner income tax credits, was reduced from 0% to a -4%; and, took another ten million low income Americans completely off of the tax roles. That is, a very significant four(4) % decrease. On the other end of the scale, the tax burden on the top 20% of income earners, the so-called rich, increased to a full 85% of the total tax burden. For examples on the lower end of the scale, a Single Individual making 30K paid $8400 in taxes under Clinton; under Bush $4500. A married couple making 60K: under Clinton $16,800, under Bush $9000. So Hillary/Obamaspeak, an economic strategy that left our Nation in a RECESSION on the Clinton's departure from the White House, would damage the poor more then any other group. One can summarize this quite simply by noting that IF Hillary and Obama's Marxist philosophies of soaking the rich were valid, Communist societies throughout the world would be exorbitantly wealthy, in lieu of economic basket cases a' la Castro's Cuba. The same can be said of their forced plan for Socialized Medicine. A program which is failing miserably in such Nations as Canada and the United Kingdom. Canada, as just one example, is now experiencing a dramatic shortfall in physicians. Greg Neubeck

Why is it that, no matter what the issue, Mrs. Obama never has a positive thing to say about this country? Based on her comment one would believe that women in the US have no voice. Her glass is always half empty!

To think that M. Obama will take the place of Laura Bush, to me is beyond belief. I have followed this woman, her writings, her speeches,and assorted interviews, to me I see a Racist, its simple as that. She is mean spirited, harsh to the eye, and all I can say is I hope it doesn't happen. Condie Rice, makes this woman,well no contest.

R.Sapp - Seattle

More giveaways at our expense after your hubby raises taxes again, Michelle? Ugh. Just what this nation needs...more dependents.

I don't get it. The Obamas admitted they had trouble paying off their overpriced degrees....how are they supposed to be in charge of our national budget? Is this some kind of joke?

I already know what her role will be: crazed, racist, chip-on-her-shoulder wack-job. I hope she will never be first lady. She might be as much of a mental patient as Kerry's wife, just in a different way..

She'd make a fantastic First Lady!

Let's do this!

Do you think Michelle Obama will address the issue of why women in politics have been such ineffective leaders? Since Miss Nancy has become Speaker of the House, Congress has become more of a lame duck than any President ever has been. They were elected on the premise they would pull us out of Iraq yet that will never happen util there is a stable democratic government there, as Bush originally insisted. Nancy promised to "drain the swamp" in congress, yet her good buddy Murtha remains one of the all time big pork spenders. Don't get me started on Murtha and why he should be in jail now...look again at the FBI video clips. Since Nancy was elected Congress' approval rating is lower than the President she criticized.
Hillary was caught with several hundred stolen FBI files in her personal White House quarters. She refused to answer sobpoenas regarding her Rose Law Firm billing records and yet was not prosecuted for willfully disregarding a sobpoena?
When are women in politics going to be held accountable for their actions? We're waiting???

God help us if this nut cake makes it to the white house.

Michele Obama first lady?
Chances-Zero

oh so to post you have to be pro obama.
duh the second amendment?

Plame's identity wasn't outed by Robert Novak. It was 'outed' by Joe Wilson when he published their names in a Who's Who in Washington.

It's one thing to be a partisan. It's another to not get your facts straight.

Ms. Obama appears to be in the Miss Hillary vein as a potential Presidential wife, except she can play the race card when the going gets tough. Mr McCain ain't Bob Dole.

If she thinks the past five years has been dark for her and the "Big O" then she needs to grow thicker skin.

Of course she's pretty flammed about Plame who should be cooling her heels in a jail cell instead of being fetted by Dems for giving the war and Mr. Bush the (non racially prejudiced) black eye.

Sounds like her pride in America is directly related to her distance from the White House. Barack needs to give her some more acting lessons.

Wake up America and smell the BS!

Yup! I'm one of those hard working white guys without the handicap of a "liberal college" education. Common Sense 101 evidently is not required at those institutions. Guess that's why I can smell crap BEFORE I step in it.

Yikes. The last thing we need is this Michelle Obama behind the curtains. Obama may have publicly distanced himself from that racist white hating preacher but she had not.

If we cannot get Bill Clinton for first lady then it is a no brainer to vote for McCain. Just wish that Rice or Powell will take the VP spot...

The reason why Plame still supports Clinton is quite obvious. Birds of a feather flock together, they are both liars, manipulators and a huge embarrassment to women like myself who have achieved great things through hard work and competing like everyone else, not by blaming every ill on being a woman and expecting things to be made easy. Every time Hillary invokes the feminist crap she infuriates me and does harm to all women. I talk about how bad she'll be for this country to almost all of my patients.

Isn't Mrs. Obama credited with the quote, regarding her husband's run for the Democrat nomination, "This is the first time in my adult life I have felt proud of my country."?

This a good start for a prospective First Lady, don't you think?

Thank you Michelle for making it okay to bake cookies and be a mom dealing with family issues.

You will be an incredible first woman. Accomplished, smart, good mother and wife.

Thank you for your example for the future.

Michelle...you will make a fine first lady. Can't wait to have you and your amazing husband in Washington.

Michelle Obama will become first lady when Senator Robert Byrd is drafted by the Washigton Redskins. She has the elgance of a fire hydrant, and the appearance of Sunday morning hooker.