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 The master-switch, this is the nickname
that Michelle Obama earned while the presidential campaign lasted for the
virtuosity with which she was able to persuade the hesitating electors to go
for the democrats and her husband Barack Obama. Master-switch is what they call
the runners that finish too fast and too unpredictable. Michelle Obama (Born as
Michelle LaVaugh Robinson), born 1964 in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was a
plumber on one of Chicago's companies. Michelle has a Bachelor's Degree in
Sociology with which she graduated from Princeton University in 1985. She also
is a Doctor of Law which she got in Harvard's Law School in the year 1988. From
1988 to 1992 Michelle was working in a juridical company called "Sidley Austin"
where she specialized on marketing and intellectual property laws and issues.
This is where she met Barack Obama got to know him and married him in the year
1992.
From 1992 to 1993 Michelle LaVaugh Obama
was working as the Chicago's mayor assistant and as a deputy commissioner of
the planning and developing. From 1993 until 1996 Michelle worked as the
executive director of the Chicago's department of the youth organization called
Public Allies. From the year 1996 until the year 2002 Michelle was the
Chicago's University Dean's assistant of the student issues and enquiries. From
the year 2002 Michelle was a executive director of the public services and
issues in the Academic Medical Centre of the Chicago University. She resigned
in the year 2007 and from then on she works as the vice president for public
and external issues and enquiries of this very centre.
She's quite an active lady, isn't she?
Furthermore, Michelle has been bringing up two adorable daughters: Malia (born
1999) and Natasha (born 2001). She also is quite a frequent guest on the "Most
Stylishly Dressed People" list of the "People" magazine and now Michelle is
believed to be willing to give help to working women and to their families.
This is, by the way, where she sees herself
when being asked about her first lady's duties. Michelle is willing to help the
families that have working women in them, especially if the women are working
in the military sphere. While accompanying her husband, Barack Obama during his
presidential campaign, Michelle brought up that it is very hard for a working
mother to raise her children. To be honest, according to mass media Michelle
didn't have a clue that people are obliged to work to be able to support their
families, pay their bills and help their own parents, but one shouldn't really
trust the yellow pages of the mass media anyway, should he?
During the presidential campaign, Michelle
Obama was talking to mothers whose paycheck couldn't even cover the food
expenditures. "Those mothers could have only afforded taking care of their
child in case they would have gotten a second job. More than twenty two
millions of women are not getting paid for their medical insurance by their
employer in the USA. Millions of those women are doing the same job as the men
do, however the women get paid less." Those words belong to Michelle Obama and
this is how she described the women's lives and her impressions from them. It
seems that it was quite a shock for her that there were actually people who
live under such disastrous circumstances. After finding the horrible truth out,
Michelle promised to help those women get a better life, promised she would do
anything possible to help the working women and army-men widows to solve their
problems.
It is quite possible that a quite an
extraordinary first lady would come out of Michelle Obama. Mass media are
always trying to parallel Michelle with the preceding first ladies of the White
House. She was compared to Eleanor Roosevelt (for both of the ladies having same
ideological views), Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy (for having two
daughters and the stylistic views), Nancy Reagan (for having the same influence
on her husband) and with Hillary Clinton (for the jurisprudence background and
the ambitions both possessed). But it is very doubtable that the comparisons
will do any good here, because Michelle Obama is Michelle Obama and there is
nothing else to talk about here.
However the mass media analytics are
definitely right about the influence Michelle has on her husband. To be honest
the way she treats her husband is very and very specific and extraordinary,
especially keeping in mind that Barack would occupy the Oval cabinet any day
now. Michelle calls her husband "baby" in public. "If he one day becomes the
president I would tell him: "Baby you can do just so much here!" - This is what
Michelle was telling the public during Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
There are also some comments about the fact that it is Michelle who is
responsible for the newly elected president's clothing style. However once said
something like "Actually he doesn't wear any trousers except for these for ten
years already..." or "Don't you shoot his shoes, we were just about to get him
the new pair..." is added.
It is quite okay after realizing all this
to think a bit differently about Barack Obama. Who is this new president of the
United States of America? That confident man with the charming smile and the
extremely powerful charisma, the one who looks upon us from the billboards and
the screen of out televisions, isn't he just a helpless baby boy who is not
capable of putting different trousers on without his wife helping him?
It is quite interesting to see how the
women of the USA would treat their husbands in the years to come after they
will see the way Michelle Obama treats her husband. Who knows, maybe the
epidemic feminism is upon us?
Sofia Vargan
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