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...find the other parents are giving you a little ... like can you sit in your lawn chair at the soccer game and not be ... The more I go, the more I can, right? The more often - and I found this even in Chicago during the campaign. People eventually get used to you, no matter who you are. If I went out there once in a while, I think there would be a ton of excitement because everybody feels like, Well, this is the opportunity. But if people know I'm out there every Saturday, what you get is more...
...that's something I discovered over the course of the campaign. You can push through normalcy. People will be excited for a short period of time, and then it's like, Oh, yes, it's just Malia's mom here. She comes here every Saturday: "Hey, how you doing? It's good to see you again." And you're trying to watch the game. So we just keep doing...
...happened for most of the kids' lifetime, right, because it's not just this position. He was a state senator; had to run for that seat. The state senate is in Springfield; it's a five-hour drive away. Then it was the U.S. Senate. There was the campaign in between there. The U.S. Senate is in Washington, D.C. - well, I'm telling you the obvious - and on and on and on. It's been all of their lives that it's rare to have Dad at home for dinner, to see him in the mornings before...
What do you miss of your old life before the campaign, before you were such a public person? You know, I'm ... well, O.K., so which before...
...Girl Power After four months in the White House and two years on the campaign trail, she's learned how to help people relax around her so she can get down to business. She makes fun of herself and of her husband, and teases a male reporter about his struggle to accurately describe her outfit during her European tour. "You didn't know you'd be covering cardigans," she says, but that's O.K., since her husband doesn't know cable-knit from argyle either. When she tries to explain why she's constantly hugging people, she reaches...