I'd say you admire very much someone who works closely with a group you claim is too "liberal" for you. Put that way it doesn't make much sense, does it?
It makes perfect sense, when you consider that the First Lady is first lady to ALL Americans.
You don't admire Laura Bush?
Geoge W. Bush, her husband, is willing to work with Yassir Arafat, whom someone you admire, John Paul II, has defended as being "humiliated."
Does THAT make sense?