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Article: Michelle Obama to play bigger role in campaign: Candidate's wife also his 'most important adviser'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 12, 2007
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WASHINGTON -- Michelle Obama, an extraordinary stump speaker and
potentially one of Sen. Barack Obama's most effective surrogates, is
poised to step up her role in her husband's presidential campaign.
"I hate following my wife," Obama joked, speaking at a New York
fund-raiser Friday night after being introduced by Michelle. When
someone in the crowd yelled that Michelle should run, Obama said,
"Yeah, she's too smart to run. It is true my wife is smarter, better
looking. She's a little meaner than I am."
Hardly that. She is, according to spokesman Bill Burton, the
"most important adviser" to the Illinois Democrat.
But with the demands of the campaign growing, Barack Obama simply
can't ...