Michelle Obama an educated woman poised, elegant, well achieved, mother, wife and true maverick. This woman can bake a cake, put the kids to bed, maintain a functioning family, run a major party campaign for presidency, keep the romance alive with her husband (who we have seen buying her flowers on many occasions) , look gorgeous on a budget, sit in a rich house and a poor house and can honestly understand the lives of both, can carry a two step and still at the end of the day find her greatest accomplishments to be just a wife and mother.
As a child growing up every Thursday night I was first and present in front of my television set to enjoy the NBC eight o’clock line up of television’s favorite African American family, the “Huxtables” on The Cosby Show. Along with the every day satire and situations that grab my attention episode after episode one woman was always the talk of the town. Phylicia Rashad who played the role of the infamous Clare Huxtable. The superwoman Phylicia Rashad played the role of the incredibly strong, very educated and beautiful wife of doctor Cliff Huxtable. In her role she was always tough but fair, it had often been joked that she can do it all and when describing the characters and their functions of what they bring to the show they would always say that the character played by Bill Cosby was always in love with her intelligence, candor and what a phenomenal woman she was. Clare Huxtable graduated top of her class at Hillman University (named of course after Spellman University) and became a partner on one of the top law firms in New York City and with all of her success she still maintained a grounded wife and mother who always put her family first.
Sounds familiar to any one how about the one and only Michelle Obama graduate top of her class at Harvard and Princeton University. Michelle has worked her way to becoming a very successful lawyer, wonderful mother, wife and friend to a nation. Every time I listen to this woman speak I feel proud to be a woman. when asked Scholastic News Online what is the major change during this election Michelle Obama responded “The biggest change is there are more cameras, and i get noticed more in the airport and at the store” then she later goes on to say “I have always had my own career-which i still maintain. I carry two Blackberries on the trail: one for the campaign and one for the University of Chicago Medical Center, where I am Vice President of Community and External Affairs, so I can stay in touch with my colleagues and [keep track of] projects”. This is a woman that has managed to remain grounded through all the business of the campaigning and it is my belief that even after this woman becomes first lady I truly believe she will be one of the greatest.
