Tiffeany Roderick15 Things You Should Know About Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama will be speaking prime time tonight at the Democratic National Convention. Although she has been demonized profusely by the right wing media, she is actually an amazing professional, working mom. I’ve decided to share this information from Rocky Mountain News, 15 things you may not know about Michelle. This information shows how incredibly smart and human she is. It shows that she has the struggle of any working mother to balance work and home life. Michelle Obama is role model for young women who have come from meager means and the desire to become something greater
1 As a child, she loved girlie stuff like her Easy Bake Oven and Barbie (she had the car and the house, too).
2When it comes to television, she's a fan of Sex in the City, The Sopranos and HGTV.
3 Her favorite author: Toni Morrison
4 Her father, Fraser Robinson, a former boxer, suffered from multiple sclerosis from age 30. He was a Democratic precinct captain and worked at the city water filtration plant in Chicago. Although he met and liked Barack, he died in 1991, a year before the Obamas were married.
5 As a kid, she alternated days doing dish-washing duty with her big brother, Craig. It was also her job to clean the bathroom every Saturday.
6 She skipped second grade.
7She attended Whitney Young, Chicago's first magnet high school, where she was student council treasurer, a member of the National Honor Society and a four-year honor roll student.
8 She's a 1985 cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where she shared a room with three other women and had to walk down three flights of stairs to get to the bathroom.
9 She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988 and was hired by the blue chip law firm Sidley & Austin in Chicago, where she specialized in marketing and intellectual property law. She was picked to be the adviser to a summer associate, Barack Obama.
10 She doesn't wear pantyhose because they always rip; she says it's difficult to find ones that fit her 5-foot-11 frame.
11 The Rev. Jesse Jackson's daughter, Santita, sang at her wedding. They're childhood friends.
12 As a newlywed, she gave up corporate law and took a huge pay cut to open the Chicago office of Public Allies, part of former President Clinton's AmeriCorps, which helped young people to enter public service work.
13 She sits on six boards, including the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, which her daughters, Sasha and Malia, attend.
14 In a job interview with University of Chicago Hospitals, she brought along baby daughter Sasha (now 7) because she couldn't find a baby sitter. She got the job.
15 She likes predawn workouts and held outdoor jump-rope clinics at her house for her daughter's ballet class.
SOURCES: Chicago Sun-Times, Newsweek,
The Washington Post
Lawyer, Mother Wife: Michelle Obama
1 As a child, she loved girlie stuff like her Easy Bake Oven and Barbie (she had the car and the house, too).
2When it comes to television, she's a fan of Sex in the City, The Sopranos and HGTV.
3 Her favorite author: Toni Morrison
4 Her father, Fraser Robinson, a former boxer, suffered from multiple sclerosis from age 30. He was a Democratic precinct captain and worked at the city water filtration plant in Chicago. Although he met and liked Barack, he died in 1991, a year before the Obamas were married.
6 She skipped second grade.
7She attended Whitney Young, Chicago's first magnet high school, where she was student council treasurer, a member of the National Honor Society and a four-year honor roll student.
8 She's a 1985 cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where she shared a room with three other women and had to walk down three flights of stairs to get to the bathroom.
9 She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1988 and was hired by the blue chip law firm Sidley & Austin in Chicago, where she specialized in marketing and intellectual property law. She was picked to be the adviser to a summer associate, Barack Obama.
10 She doesn't wear pantyhose because they always rip; she says it's difficult to find ones that fit her 5-foot-11 frame.
11 The Rev. Jesse Jackson's daughter, Santita, sang at her wedding. They're childhood friends.
12 As a newlywed, she gave up corporate law and took a huge pay cut to open the Chicago office of Public Allies, part of former President Clinton's AmeriCorps, which helped young people to enter public service work.
13 She sits on six boards, including the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, which her daughters, Sasha and Malia, attend.
14 In a job interview with University of Chicago Hospitals, she brought along baby daughter Sasha (now 7) because she couldn't find a baby sitter. She got the job.
15 She likes predawn workouts and held outdoor jump-rope clinics at her house for her daughter's ballet class.
SOURCES: Chicago Sun-Times, Newsweek,
The Washington Post
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