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She can be funny and sharp-tongued, warm and blunt, empathic and
demanding. Who is the woman Barack Obama calls "the boss"? In
Michelle, Washington Post writer Liza Mundy paints a revealing and
intimate portrait, taking us inside the marriage of the most dynamic
couple in politics today. She shows how well they complement each other:
Michelle, the highly organized, sometimes intimidating, list-making
pragmatist; Barack, the introspective political charmer who won't pick
up his socks but shoots for the stars. Their relationship, like those of
many couples with two careers and two children, has been so strained at
times that he has had to persuade her to support his climb up the
political ladder. And you can't blame her for occasionally regretting
it: In this campaign, it is Michelle who has absorbed much of the
skepticism from voters about Obama. One conservative magazine put her on
the cover under the headline "Mrs. Grievance." |
