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...these are issues that are not just important to me, but they're important to my husband and they're important to the West Wing. And then we look to them and say, O.K., we've got the kitchen garden planted and we're talking about these issues, so what's next? And the next comes from the West Wing. But we don't take it on if we don't know that there's some meat there, if that makes sense...
...look at doors closing. I figured that out when I agreed to run and do this with my husband. I had sort of thought all that through. If I thought that I'd be shortchanged in any way, and if he thought I'd be shortchanged in any way, we wouldn't have done...
...White House became as much Michelle Obama's stage as her husband's even before she colored the fountains green for St. Patrick's Day, or mixed the Truman china with the World's Fair glasses at a state dinner, or installed beehives on the South Lawn, or turned the East Room into a jazz lounge for a night or sacrificed her first sock to the First Puppy. Of all the revelations of her first 100 days, the most striking was that she made it seem natural. She did not spend decades dreaming of this destination, and maybe that...
...afternoon in her East Wing office. "I felt like part of my job - and I still feel like that - is to be open to where this needs to go." She's always shown a shrewd eye for the strategic detour, suspending her career in favor of helping her husband get elected, then getting her daughters settled and her garden planted and, in the process, disarming the critics who cast her as a black radical in a designer dress. She will say she's just doing what comes naturally. But whether by accident or design, or a little of both...
...Maxim means it. She talked about America as being "just downright mean," and lazy, and cynical, how life for most people had "gotten progressively worse throughout my lifetime." Seeing an opportunity, conservative critics dubbed her Mrs. Grievance, called her bitter and anti-American, to the point that her husband had to defend her patriotism and call the attacks on her "detestable...