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Article: Standing tall: what Michelle means.(Columnists)(Michelle Obama)
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- Commonweal
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- September 12, 2008
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Anyone interested in making the acquaintance of the real Michelle Obama has done so by now. They've heard her story and (literally) seen where she's coming from on the big screen behind her at the Democratic convention. Yet even after her from-the-heart convention speech about home, family, and why she loves America, some critics continue to talk about her as if she were Angela Davis in a sheath. It was, according to Fox News, "a very liberal speech." "The heroes of Michelle Obama's world are people who march." Which is especially galling, given that what her heroes really taught her was to march to work every day.
Politics aside, I never met a potential first ...