BY Rick Friedman/World Picture News |
Potential leadership & the people that they commit to and
entrust with their life, family, and career.
Consider Barack Hussein Obama's wife and her
judgment. The news media identify Mrs. Obama as beautiful.
Some people think Laura Bush is silly....
Yes, she is, but in a far different manner. |
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an interview with Glamour Magazine, Michelle Obama reveals that her
husband, Barack, is so "snore-y and stinky" when he wakes up in the
morning that their daughters won’t crawl into bed with him. |
| The
interview, in the magazine’s October issue, was conducted by Tonya
Lewis Lee, who is married to Spike Lee, the filmmaker. |
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Update: Glamour has updated its Web site
now with a fuller quote from Mrs. Obama, and here’s a complete
transcript of the passage: |
| Q:
Speaking of your girls, what do you think they think of Mommy? How
do they think of you? |
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Mrs. Obama: You know my hope in my gut
is that I am just Mommy. I don’t think this part registers to them.
I mean so much of our relationship is based on our world at home.
It’s getting up _ you know we have this ritual in the morning. We
get up and they want ten more minutes so they can come in my bed and
if Dad isn’t there _ because he is too snore-y and stinky, they
don’t want ever to get in the bed with him _ but we cuddle up and we
talk. We’ve talked about everything from the boy that one daughter
doesn’t particularly like in school to what is a period to _ |
| Q:
And they are five and eight? |
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Mrs. Obama: They are six and nine. To
the big topic in the morning is, when we get a dog, what kind of
dog? |
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Mrs. Obama has been famous, of course,
for humanizing her husband with such homespun details, including his
habit of not picking up his socks. Is this useful information? With
a voracious media out there, the line is getting blurrier and
blurrier. But Mrs. Obama seems to feel it serves a purpose. |
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"Barack is very much human,” Mrs.
Obama tells Glamour in response to a reader who wants to know
why Mrs. Obama thinks she has been criticized for discussing her
home life in such detail. “So let’s not deify him, because what
we do is we deify, and then we’re ready to chop it down. People
have notions of what a wife’s role should be in this process,
and it’s been a traditional one of blind adoration. My model is
a little different — I think most real marriages are."
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| Who
are these self-proclaimed, made-up leaders and where do they come from? |
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