When the newly elected President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters, Malia and Sasha, waved to the 200,000 people roaring their approval at the first African-American president on that memorable night in Chicago last November, they looked like a fairytale family.
‘I would not be standing here tonight’ - the President-elect told the crowd that included TV presenter Oprah Winfrey and civil rights campaigner Reverend Jesse Jackson, both in tears - ‘without the unyielding support of my best friend for the past 16 years, the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation’s new First Lady, Michelle Obama.’ ...”