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When Barack Obama was elected senator and triumphally moved into the Capitol three years ago, his wife rolled her eyes: "Perhaps he is going to accomplish something that will legitimate this jubilation," she allegedly told a journalist who was standing next to her. In May, 2007 she frankly said "Barack should become President because he has managed to deal with a strong woman like me." She was talking about how he keeps forgetting to put the butter back into the fridge, and that a five year old was doing his bed better than himself. Bantering among a married couple. Only a few months ago she replied "Do we talk about political issues? Well, do you believe I can shut my mouth?"

This has stopped. Because Michelle Obama has realized that she may not turn into a Hillary Clinton. With regard to Americans' taste, Hillary wanted to be too much of a president as a first lady. That is why Michelle Obama now remarks that she is not a political advisor to her husband.

Neither will she become a new Nancy Reagan who used to stand next to her Ronald like he was a god; not only because of her 5' 11". The recent modesty will not last long with 43 year old ivy league graduate and mother of two daughter.


Michelle Obama does not want to expect too much from the American people at a time. After all, she has been in a presidental campaign in which up to now it has remained unclear what role skin color plays. Her husband has a white mother and a black father. She is black. If he is elected the sample family of the United States of America will be, for the first time, black. This would be a huge leap in a country which knew racial segregation only in the 1960s. Therefore, the potential new first lady need not re-invent her role as well. Not yet.