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| News Date | Monday, January 29, 2007 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Michelle Obama has seemed ambivalent about Barack's '08 run. But she's provided the entree for him to give it a go.
By Karen Springen and Jonathan Darman
Newsweek
Jan. 29, 2007 issue - Michelle Obama has always been a creature of discipline and decorum. As a young lawyer, she initially brushed off advances from her future husband, Barack Obama, because they worked at the same firm. A reporter, visiting her Chicago home in 2004, noticed a to-do list for her two daughters that included time for "play." She is in bed most nights by 9:30 and rises each morning at 4:30 to run on a treadmill. "She'll sacrifice the sleep so she can make sure she has that time," says Susan Page, a friend since Harvard Law School. "Once she has a plan, she goes for it."
Now, however, Michelle's once orderly life is tending toward the chaotic, in the form of a presidential campaign, and no amount of planning can stave it off. Last week her husband's name was on the lips of every Democrat from Boston to Berkeley after he announced he was forming a presidential exploratory committee. But Michelle was out of sight—the Obama campaign declined to make her available for this story—even as many Democrats wondered what she thought of her husband's big leap. After all, she has made no secret of her ambivalence about being a political spouse: "If politics were my passion," she told the Chicago Tribune in 2004, "I'd find out how to do it and make it work." In the weeks before his announcement, Obama seemed to stiffen when asked what his wife thought of a presidential run. |
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