Michelle Obama Speech

White House Pink Ribbon Installed For Breast Cancer Awareness

Huffington Post | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact


Nearly 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, and the White House is showing its support for National Breast Cancer Awareness Mont...

MICHELLE OBAMA COMMENCEMENT SPEECH: UC Merced (VIDEO, FULL TEXT)

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics


Scroll down for full video and text Making her debut as a commencement speaker before a crowd of 12,000 on Saturday, FIrst Lady Michelle Obama praise...

Michelle Obama On How Community Service Changed Her Life: "There Is Nothing More Fulfilling"

AP | NATASHA T. METZLER | Posted 06.13.2009 | Living


WASHINGTON — For Michelle Obama, corporate law turned out not to be the career she wanted to look back on at the end of her life. "I had to ask...

Michelle Obama Relishing Her First Lady Status

Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics


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The Real Meaning and Real Talk of a Real Life '08 Bonnie and Clyde

Barry Michael Cooper | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


Barry Michael Cooper

As the world gazed upon this regal African American woman in her royal blue dress, there were tears of grief shed for women just like Michelle who endured water hoses, police batons, and dogs over 40 years ago.

Un-Conventional Behavior

Darryle Pollack | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


Darryle Pollack

Call me corny -- but tonight as I watched Michelle Obama and her daughters, I couldn't help flashing back to the beautiful young family who personified elegance and hope in 1960.

Michelle Obama: What I Heard

Hermene Hartman | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


Hermene Hartman

You heard a love story. You heard that her dream had come true. You heard a grateful daughter. You heard the future of what the country should and could be

Michelle's Speech A Success, Obama Camp Says

Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


Marc Ambinder reports that Michelle Obama's speech was a success: A senior Obama official says that, "to a high degree of confidence," the campaign ...

Michelle Obama's Speech: A High-Tech Groveling

Adam Hanft | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


Adam Hanft

The one thing I haven't read in all the praise and accolades is the simple fact that this was a speech Michelle should never have had to make.

Michelle Obama Speaks Again With Pelosi And Clinton

The Nation | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


Michelle Obama's elegant convention speech wowed Democrats last night, but she's not done. Ms. Obama is speaking this afternoon at an EMILY's List ga...

Michelle Obama: Women's New Best Friend?

Allison Stevens | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


Allison Stevens

If her husband wins the White House, Michelle Obama, in fact, may be the best friend women's rights advocates have had in the White House for a long time.

Hillary Called Michelle Obama After Speech

CNN | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


Michelle Obama received a phone call after her widely praised speech Monday night -- from Hillary Clinton. The Obama campaign confirms the New York s...

The 'Great Society' in Michelle Obama's Speech

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


Jeffrey Feldman

To the theme of 'Great Society,' Michelle Obama added a new and compelling refrain: the world as it should be -- not a destination, so much as it is the energy that both unites us and drives us forward.

Michelle Obama: Democrats Roll Out the OS X Leopard of First Ladies

Danielle Crittenden | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


Danielle Crittenden

I realized last night we were witnessing something historic: Michelle Obama is the first woman to embrace/embody a post-feminist view of a presidential spouse.

Karl Rove: Michelle Obama Didn't Show "Adequate Enough" Love For Her Country

Think Progress | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


In a speech last night at the Democratic convention, Michelle Obama "began a weeklong effort to present her husband -- and his entire family -- as emb...

Monday Dem Convention Speeches: The Reviews Are In

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics


James Carville was the convention's harshest critic: "If this party has a message," he said on CNN, "it's done a hell of a job hiding it tonight, I ...

Tears and Bookends

Mary Lyon | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics


Mary Lyon

Michelle Obama humanized herself as what she really is -- a mom, a wife, a daughter, a sister, and a strong, brilliant, and compassionate woman. This was sorely needed.

Michelle Obama Caps Chicago Night At Convention

AP | CHRISTOPHER WILLS | Posted 09.25.2008 | Chicago


DENVER — Michelle Obama declared "I love this country" Monday as she sought to reassure the nation that she and her husband Barack share America...

Michelle Obama's Democratic Convention Speech

Huffington Post | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics


Read about Ted Kennedy's speech to the Democratic Convention. Scroll down to watch Michelle Obama's speech, and to read the full text. The AP repor...

Michelle Obama Makes History Tonight

The Uptake | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home


The Uptake

Michelle Obama addresses the DNC during "prime time" tonight. There's a lot riding on that speech. For some perspective, we talked to Wendi C. Thomas, a columnist from The Commercial Appeal Memphis who is writing about the racial history being made at the convention.

Seth Colter Walls

Michelle Obama's Speech: Three Weeks In The Making

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics


***UPDATE: SEE BELOW FOR NEW SPEECH EXCERPTS*** When Michelle Obama takes to the podium this evening at the Pepsi Center in Denver, she'll be deliver...