Posted on 06/16/2016 3:41:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
WASHINGTON First Lady Michelle Obama told Oprah Winfrey that she and Barack are regular folks who dont want to "waste our talents just making money for ourselves.
She said President Obama hasnt changed because he is an authentic man who is going to leave the White House as the same person.
So I want to know, what are those days when you just say, mmm, mmm, mmm look at me in the White House, Winfrey asked Obama at the White Houses United State of Women Summit in Washington.
There are so yeah, just sitting up here, mmm, mmm, mmm. There are a lot of those moments. Prince and Stevie Wonder singing in the East Room, just may he rest in peace. I mean, those rare gifts of entertainment, the kind of music we have been able to bring into the White House, Obama said. Sitting with the Pope, watching my mother and my daughters talk to the Pope. Thats like a she added before Winfrey interrupted to say, Mmm, mmm, mmm.
Obama told the audience that dinner with the Queen of England is just like, mmm, mmm, mmm.
You know, you try to play these moments off, like oh, yes, yes, I know what Im doing and inside youre going, mmm, mmm, mmm, she said.
Good Lord. Watching my husband walk off of Marine One and go to the Oval Office, its like, mmm, mmm, mmm, she added.
Winfrey replied, Hes got the swag. Did he always have that swag or has he gotten swaggier?
No, he was very swagalicious. Look, I told people this from the very start, when I started running Barack Obama is exactly who he says he is. We both are. Thats what Ive been trying to tell people. Aint no surprises. Were telling you who we are, and no tricks up our sleeves. Were regular folks, Obama said.
We care about people. We care about family. We want to do well. We want to make our country proud. We dont want to waste our talents just making money for ourselves. Barack Obama hasnt changed, not as a person, because he is an authentic man who came in, and hes going to leave that same person, she added.
Obama said the office of president does not change you, it amplifies who you are.
And thats something that we should all remember, she said.
Obama declined to comment on her familys plans after the White House but said she is most looking forward to walking down a street and shopping.
Im alone with 800 people walking behind me but Ive learned how to Im by myself. But I do, I want to walk down a street. I want to sit in a yard that is not a national park, Obama said.
I do want to drop into Target. I want to go to Target again. Ive heard so many things have changed in Target. I tell my friends theyre going to have to give me a re-entry training for like, okay, what do you do at CVS now? How do you check out? Its like Ive been living in a cave, she added.
Winfrey asked Obama if she had a message for the men in the audience at the United State of Women Summit. Obama challenged men to be better than making deals on a golf course with a bunch of other men.
Michelle Obama: Barack and I Are 'Regular Folks'
Men can be better husbands, which is, be a part of your familys life. Do the dishes. Dont babysit your children. You dont babysit your own children. Be engaged. Dont just think going to work and coming home makes you a man. Being a father, being engaged, all that stuff is important, Obama said.
Be a better employer. When you are sitting at a seat of power at a table of any kind and you look around you just see you, its just you and a bunch of men around a table, on a golf course, making deals, and you allow that to happen, and youre OK with that be better, she added.
Be better. I love that, Winfrey replied.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) also addressed the summit and praised presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
We know Hillary Clinton will engage in a dignified campaign of ideas, vision about the future, a campaign worthy of the office of president and worthy of the American people. Hopefully the other side will, but lets remember this: We must remember that electing a women president or electing a woman to any office is not about one womans achievement but what it means to other women, Pelosi said.
For us to see how Madam President will ensure our national security, Madam President will ensure our national security, strengthen and empower our families. It will resound in the dreams of every young girl in every corner of America, she added.
Neanderthal comes to mind. Perish the thought.
I never drank her Kool Aid.
Hope she survives until her next vacation.
The aunt on welfare? The brother who lived in a shack?
Some jokes write themselves.
She’s disrespecting the office after looting it. Mooch is the name. Money and power tripping is the game.
And, as an aside, although I think Barack is a Muslim first and a racist second, I don’t believe Mooch cares about Islam. But she’s racist, arrogant, entitled, and greedy.
There’s a reason for that, Moochelle.
I’m sure we all believe that the first moose is just dying to shop at Target if only to use the open gender facilities.
Find one, and move there.
“When I started running?”
That’s how Heidi Cruz talks.
Yuck!
Then stop throwing bones on the floor...
It looks to have worn a cup that day.
They probably keep the heat at 90, sheets over the windows and melt candles on top of an XBOX.
I had to put my waders on to read that article.
Why are Okra and Mooch making yummy noises?
Vini Vidi Vomitus
Can’t put a shine on a sneaker.
She is so full of crap she should explode. This BS “Cave Lady” in designer this and that is the only first lady who has had a staff that few, if any fortune 500 CEO’s spend as much for. The BS is so deep with the Obamas one needs waders.
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