Is it important to know the past of the First Lady?

I gotta admit I'm one of those guilty for getting caught in a stupor over Obama going against my own conscience and if anyone feels responsibly its me and now all i can do is to help expose it but I glad its now rather than later

He was very, very seductive! I finally had to quit watching/listening to either of them and just read the coverage. Whatever the man has, if he could bottle it and sell it he'd never have another worry financially.

I'm curious, though. What won you over? Was it the repeated hope and change mantra, his attractive appearance, or maybe you wanted a total change from Bush? I'd like to know, nobody has ever given me a real reason for voting for Mr. Obama.

I was just so sick of "Terrorist alert" "Homeland Security" "Patriot Act"

and "War" and by end of Bush's term I was willing to hear anything

that promised change but I wanted to vote for the independent party but didn't

think that was really giving 'change' a realistic chance so I changed my party to

democrat and voted for Obama. I remember the last months of the campaign trail I

was hung up on something but when McCain started talking like he still had a war

unfinished, the Cold War?, that was enough to confirm my choice in voting for

Obama.

I know just how you felt, I felt the same way! Sooooo sick of Bush! McCain wasn't really running to win, either. But when Obama started talking about redistributing the wealth and a few other socialist-minded things, I had to cross him off my list.

I'm really sick and tired of not having a good choice for prez, it's always the lesser of two evils.

"Michelle and her brother, Craig Robinson, grew up hearing stories of their maternal grandfather. A Carpenter who was denied union membership due to race, he was shut out of the city's top construction jobs.."

In 1988 Michelle says Barack Obama came to work at her firm, Sidley Austin

--associate specializing in marketing and intellectual property

Before meeting Barack, the new intern she confesses that she dismissed him as
a "intellectual nerd."

"In 1988, a summer intern two years older by the name of Barack Obama came to
work at the firm...(http://womenissues.about.com/od/influential women/p/MichelleObama.htm"

Upon meeting him: "He was cuter than I'd thought he'd be" (CNN, Jan 2009)

"I just found him intriguing in every way that you can imagine. He was funny,

he was self-deprecating, he didn't take himself too seriously. He could laugh

himself--we clicked right away," but said "I was taking my job as an advisor-

I was his advisor--very seriously. And it was my first responsibility as an

associate...I didn't see a relationship coming out of that."

After working together they developed solid friendship. Barack asks Michelle
again for date,

"No, it wouldn't be the right thing to do"

Barack responded: "No, it wouldn't be the right thing to do," he said,

Who cares?"

Michelle agrees to a date (but refused to admit to the 'd' word)

Barack mixed up the day with a visit to the art museum, lunch at an

outdoor cafe, watching Spike Lee's controversial film, and ending with drinks

on "99th floor of skyscraper over city lights."

Spike Lee 1988 film (Didn't say specific film? just that it was controversial):

School Daze, released in U.S. 12, February, 1988 (Uk, in August)

Vaughn "Dap" Dunlap (Laurence Fishburne) is a politically conscious African American student at Mission College who leads anti-apartheid demonstrations encouraging students and school administrators to completely divest from South Africa. He also eschews the buffoonery and social climbing of the Greek fraternal system. Dap's craven younger cousin, Darrell, aka "Half-Pint"

(Spike Lee), is pledging Gamma Phi Gamma (also known as G-Phi-G or simply G-Phi) fraternity and is willing to endure any humiliation to join the fraternity. While Half-Pint tries unsuccessfully to impress the Gammas with his inept womanizing, Dap engages in debates with Rachel (Kyme), his girlfriend, as well as other Mission students.

Full synopsis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Daze

In Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama's Princeton Thesis:

"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'Blackness'
than ever before,".."I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal
and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be
toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really
don't belong."

"God has smiled on us and freed us up to be God's people—unshackled by stereotypes and the barriers of assimilation, unshackled by the fear of joining in the struggle for liberation, and unshackled by the stigmas, defeats, or victories of the past. [God has freed us to be the Church in the world—[God's] Children! Black, Christian and proud of being created in [God's] image and being called by [God's] name."

Trinity United Church of Christ

David B. Wilkins,

Harvard Professor of Law to both Michelle and Barack Obama:"Most politicians who have Harvard in their background, well, let's just say that they approach their relationship in their speeches with caution...

..it is the kind of thing that always gets mentioned by the Press, but no by
the candidate."In Los Angeles Times, in 1990, speaking of Barack Obama's lead as President of Harvard Law Review (the first African American) "..Yet some of his peers..find it puzzling that despite Obama's openly progressive
views on social issues, he has also won support from staunch conservatives, " the piece noted.

Ironically, he has come under the most criticism from fellow black students
for being too concillatory toward conservatives and not choosing more
blacks to other top positions on the law review"

Wilkins on Michelle Obama:

She always stated her position clearly and decisively."