THE MICHELLE OBAMA FILE
Age: 43; born Jan. 17, 1964, in Chicago专科
Education: B.A. in sociology, Princeton University, 1985; law degree, Harvard Law School, 1988
Religion: United Church of Christ
Family: Husband, Sen. Barack Obama; children, Malia, 8, and Sasha, 5
Career: Vice president, community and external affairs, University of Chicago Hospitals, 2005-present; executive director of community and external affairs, University of Chicago Hospitals, 2002-05; associate dean of student services, University of Chicago, 1996-2002; founding executive director, Public Allies, a leadership training program, 1993-96; assistant commissioner, Chicago Department of Planning and Development, 1992-93; assistant to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, 1991-92; associate, Sidley and Austin law firm, 1988-91.
By Charles Rex Arbogast, AP
Michelle Obama says her husband Barack Obama is not a miracle worker who's "going to fix it all ... He is going to stumble."
HOW SOME POTENTIAL FIRST LADIES SEE THE JOB
Spouses of 2008 presidential candidates have differing views about how they would approach the job of first lady. Among them:
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democrat John Edwards
Background: Lawyer; helped create the Wade Edwards Foundation in honor of her late son.
On her role as first lady: "What I am is a sounding board for John. I'm a true believer in the chain of command." (ABC's Nightline, April 2)
Elizabeth Kucinich, wife of Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Background: Worked as a development advocate in Tanzania and at the Chicago-based American Monetary Institute.
On her role as first lady: "We're a joint ticket, a team. We share the same perspective." (Nevada Caucus 2008 blog, March 18)
Cindy McCain, wife of Republican Sen. John McCain
Background: Founded the American Voluntary Medical Team; serves on the boards of several non-profit groups.
On her role as first lady: "I have to worry about my children first, and then my husband and our family. I have not even thought about what I would do." (CNN's Larry King Live, April 25)
Judith Giuliani, wife of Republican Rudy Giuliani
Background: Registered nurse; former pharmaceutical saleswoman; board of the Twin Towers Fund.
On her role as first lady: "If he asks me to," she would attend White House policy meetings, particularly "in the areas of health care." (The New York Times, March 30)
Barbara Richardson, wife of Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico
Background: Read Across America chair, 2003; statewide chair of Big Brothers/Big Sisters First Lady's Bowl for Kids Sake fundraiser; helped create the Governor's Domestic Violence Advisory Board and Office of the Domestic Violence Czar in New Mexico.
On whether she'd like to be the USA's first lady: I'll tell you what I tell him: 'That's another life and another wife.' Honest to God. Not my bag. It's just not something that I even want to contemplate." (Santa Fe New Mexican, 2002, after he was elected governor)
Ann Romney, wife of Republican Mitt Romney
Background: Board member, New England Chapter of the MS Society; former liaison to the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
On her role as first lady: "Everyone would hope to be a little bit like Eleanor Roosevelt." (CNN's Larry King Live, March 15)
Source: USA TODAY research
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By Judy Keen, USA TODAY
BEDFORD, N.H. — Spend a few minutes with Michelle Obama and it quickly becomes clear that nobody tells her what to say.
Her husband, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, is a top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, but in an interview with USA TODAY, she admits she hasn't thought much about what she'd do as first lady. "I survive this stuff by not getting too far ahead," she says.
Most presidential candidates and their spouses are wary of blunt talk because they fear saying something that might alienate voters or blow up into a damaging news story.
Not Michelle Obama, who says campaign advisers haven't handed her any scripts. That's apparent when she explains that she doesn't want to be "so tied to all that (Barack) is that I don't have anything for me." It's also evident as she describes the "tension and stress" in their relationship a few years ago when he was focused on his political career and she was home alone with their two kids.
USA TODAY ON POLITICS: The 'unscripted' Michelle Obama
Her charismatic spouse draws huge crowds, has raised as much money as New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and could become the first African-American president. Barack Obama's less famous wife, though, warns that his superstar glow will fade as voters learn more about him.
She tells USA TODAY she wants them to know that he's not the "next messiah, who's going to fix it all." She's just as direct with her audience here: "He is going to stumble … make mistakes and say things you don't agree with."
When she's asked what happens when her husband wants her input on policy issues, her reply isn't surprising: "Do you think I would ever hold my tongue?"
Obama, 43, says she has overcome the qualms she once had about her husband's political career and presidential ambitions. She says she's comfortable being his emissary, collecting the concerns and hopes of the voters she meets and sharing them with him. A vice president of the University of Chicago Hospitals, she now works part time and limits her campaigning to day trips so she can make breakfast for their daughters — Malia, 8, and Sasha, 5 — and be home in time to tuck them in at night.
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