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...didn't happen. I presented all evidence to prove that it didn't. I ask for God's protection for he is my best advocate." - Pleading not guilty in court...
Switching gears a little bit, I wanted to ask you about the, sort of the public perception of Michelle Obama to the extent that you have to grapple with it. During the campaign, the sort of prism was, Is she radical? Is she too negative? Is she this, is she that? And since the Inauguration, there's a Pew poll that says even among Republican women, since the Inauguration, since January, your approval rating has gone up 21 points or something like that, to high levels, even by First Lady standards. What do you make of that shift...
Well, thanks very much for taking time. Thank you for taking the time to ask different questions...
...question now is what she plans to do with all this attention. We ask the usual questions of any new First Lady: What is she really like? How does she see her role? But it is only of Michelle Obama that we ask, What does she mean? Few First Ladies have embedded themselves so quickly in the world's imagination. And none have traveled so far, not just from Chicago's South Side to the East Wing, but from the caricatured Angry Black Woman of last spring to her exalted status as a New American Icon, as if her arrival...
...Division of Labor Ask anyone in the East Wing how Michelle sees the role of First Lady and you hear a lot about "supporting the President's agenda." But what happens if she disagrees with her husband about some policy he's embraced? "I'm sure I do what every spouse does," she says, as though their potential disagreements are in any way like any other couple's. "We'll have conversations, and we'll share our opinions over the course of the conversation. But I don't want to have a say. Really, there are a lot of times...