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Michelle Obama on dating, exercise and keeping it real (BARF Alert)
Mail Guardian Online ^ | Jun 22 2011 06:40 | VERASHNI PILLAY

Posted on 06/23/2011 7:25:34 AM PDT by NMEwithin

"How do you get Barack to believe he's in charge?"

You had to forgive the cheeky question. The person asking it, popular radio personality Anele Mdoda, had been waiting in ridiculously high heels in one spot for over an hour for the world's favourite first lady to arrive for a photo opportunity, along with 74 other young African women chosen by their US embassies.

Michelle Obama, glowing with enthusiasm, immediately burst into laughter.

"A good man is happy with a strong woman," she said, before launching into a girly chat about the type of men we should let into our lives.

"That's why I fell in love with Barack. I met him way before he was president and he was just so comfortable with himself and he accepted me with all my ... stuff."

Angry black women I thought of all the unkind caricatures of Michelle Obama as an "angry black woman" on the campaign trail by those who didn't want to see her husband take the highest office in the US. I thought of the battles she must have fought to become an incredible career woman against formidable odds, long before the world knew her name. And then I looked at this beautiful, warm and charismatic person before me.

Suddenly, the hours of waiting and being herded about, subject to the paranoia of US security officials, all seemed worth it.

(Excerpt) Read more at mg.co.za ...


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oh a lot of them absolutely love those big booties


21 posted on 06/24/2011 1:53:18 PM PDT by mel
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