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CNN contributor: Michelle Obama, Lilly Ledbetter speeches like ‘Vagina Monologues’
CNN political analyst Erick Erickson, a Republican pundit and right-wing blogger for RedState.com, exclaimed Tuesday night on Twitter that the first night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which featured equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter and First Lady Michelle Obama, was much like watching “The Vagina Monologues.” “First night of…
Michelle Obama: Election about ‘how we want our democracy to function for decades to come’
In her first public appearance after her widely-acclaimed Democratic National Convention speech on Tuesday in Charlotte, First Lady Michelle Obama told the Democratic Convention’s African-American Caucus that this year’s election was about more than simply electing her husband: it was about what America would be in the future. Speaking to…
Democratic Convention Diary Day 1: Michelle rocks the conventioneers and the gun show
Was there another speech last night? Does anyone else remember? What was going on last week in Tampa anyway, that was a lot of press to cover a tropical storm, right? And why was Clint Eastwood there again? The skies might have opened up over Charlotte before the main speeches…
Michelle Obama: Being president ‘reveals who you are’
First Lady Michelle Obama gave a rousing speech at the Democratic convention Tuesday night, saying that she had seen firsthand how her husband has struggled and fought for the values of common Americans. “Well, today, after so many struggles and triumphs and moments that have tested my husband in ways…
‘Latino Barack Obama’ gets national spotlight
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — A telegenic young Texas mayor seen as a Latino Barack Obama in the making, Julian Castro, on Tuesday becomes the first Hispanic to make the keynote speech at the Democratic convention. The 37-year-old mayor of San Antonio, the second-largest city in the Lone Star State, told…
First Lady Michelle Obama first up at DNC
Democrats kick off their 2012 convention Tuesday, with First Lady Michelle Obama firing the first shots of a three-day salvo aimed at breaking the electoral deadlock with rival Republicans. With just 63 days until Americans decide who will occupy the Oval Office for the next four years, the First Lady will make the…
Michelle Obama, Ann Romney: a study in contrasts
One is black, the other white. One was born into wealth, the other came from a working class family in Chicago, and as with the two presidential candidates, their wives — Ann Romney and First Lady Michelle Obama — provide a stark study in contrasts. Both women are viewed as…
The political emergence of Michelle Obama
With charm, hidden steel and growing political skill, First Lady Michelle Obama is injecting a timely jolt of verve into her husband’s battered political brand. The price of a sluggish economic recovery weighs heavily on President Barack Obama as he wages a tough reelection fight against Republican Mitt Romney. But…
Republicans seek to thwart Iowa’s ‘adopted son’ Obama
US President Barack Obama returned to Iowa to rekindle a romance with the fabled political swing state, but Republicans insist there is no mending a relationship that is on the rocks. Obama on Wednesday wrapped up a bus tour of the state that nurtured his improbable 2008 White House dreams,…
Michelle Obama to Olympians: ‘I’m still so inspired by you’
First Lady Michelle Obama said Friday she is fulfilling a childhood dream by leading the US delegation to the London Olympics. “These Games especially affected our little house on the south side of Chicago,” she told US athletes at their training base in east London ahead of Friday evening’s much…
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