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Former President Obama is wishing a happy birthday to his “best friend,” his wife, Michelle. The ex-commander in chief shared a lovey-dovey message directed to his spouse on Twitter on Monday, her 58th birthday.

The former Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras says an upsetting part of her previous job was not being able to protect Michelle Obama from racist slurs or signs while on duty. Poumpouras served on the presidential protective division for the first lady and President Barack Obama during their time at the White House. She also protected George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush during her 12 years in the Secret Service. Writing in her 2020 memoir, "Becoming Bulletproof," Poumpouras recalled feeling "outraged" when seeing a racist sign directed at the first lady...... Poumpouras wrote. "I was on her...

Former first lady Michelle Obama said Monday on NBC’s “The Kelly Clarkson Show” joked that she was “tired” of her husband, former President Barack Obama, during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Clarkson said, “When I went to the White House, I asked Dr. Biden what is the first thing she would do post-pandemic. So we know you are knitting now. She said, ‘get a martini and fries.’ So what are you going to do after knitting?”

Former first lady Michelle Obama will be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame (NWHF), the organization announced on Monday, International Women's Day. She will join several other inductees who will be honored with a ceremony in October. "Advocate, author, lawyer, and 44th First Lady of the United States—the first Black person to serve in the role—Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most influential and iconic women of the 21st century," NWHF said in a press release about the 2021 inductees.

Viola Davis is thrilled to be playing Michelle Obama in the upcoming Showtime anthology series First Ladies, but says she had some trepidation. The How to Get Away With Murder star dropped by The Graham Norton Show for an episode that will air on Dec. 25, where she opened up about playing the former first lady. "People love Michelle Obama," Davis told Norton. "They feel like they know her, they own her — and they do not want anything that is negative to touch her." As an actress, Davis said she delights in looking for the "mess" when it comes...

Former first lady Michelle Obama was desperate never to be photographed wearing a bikini while serving as first lady, according to her husband’s new book. Barack dished the dirt about his life partner in The Promised Land, the narcissist’s recently published memoirs, making it known that it was among her top priorities as first lady to never be photographed in a bikini. “She was serious. ‘This is one of my main goals as first lady. I will not be photographed by the paparazzi in a bathing suit.’ And she succeeded,” Barack wrote in his book. Perhaps Michelle, a very handsome...

Barack and Michelle Obama are the most admired people in the world, according to a survey by the opinion research institute YouGov, published on Friday. According to YouGov, this is the first time the former US President has reached the top of the mens rankings since the “World’s most admired” survey was launched in 2014. Billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates is now ranked the second most admired man, after sitting in first place last year. Chinese leader and party leader Xi Jinping follows as the third most admired man, according to the survey results. …

This weekend, the nation will honor the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died at age 87; soon thereafter, former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign must seize the moment and stake out a landmark candidate to replace the beloved jurist. The nominee must be someone who advances the cause of racial and gender justice and quells Republican efforts to bum-rush a replacement. What it means is that the Biden campaign cannot simply propose to nominate a woman of traditional qualifications for the court. If it is to make history, then it must spotlight a woman who...

Mainstream and liberal media pundits went weak at the knees for former first lady Michelle Obama's Democratic National Convention speech on Monday. Obama's primetime address skewered President Donald Trump and urged voters to choose Democrat Joe Biden like their lives depended on it, and it made an impression. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said she could not breathe during Obama's speech, ABC's George Stephanopoulos called it a "sermon," and left-wing comedian Stephen Colbert simpered, "I’ll be honest with you. My job is to have a joke for every time somebody says anything in public. After watching Michelle Obama’s speech, I have never...

Wednesday, on her new podcast former first lady Michelle ... Obama said, “I’m waking up in the middle of the night, cause I’m worrying about something, or there’s a heaviness. I try to make sure I get a workout in, although there have been periods throughout this quarantine, where I just have felt too low. You know, I’ve gone through those emotional highs and lows that I think everybody feels, where you just don’t feel yourself, and sometimes there’s been a week or so where I had to surrender to that, and not be so hard on myself. And say,...

In 1985, Michelle Obama presented her senior thesis in the sociology department of Princeton University. Although Michelle drew no such conclusion, the thesis is a stunning indictment of affirmative action. Those who benefited from it, Michelle most notably, may never recover from its sting. Her thesis reads like a cry for help. "I have found that at Princeton no matter how matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me," she writes, "I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as I really don't belong." She didn't. Michelle should never have been...

Former President George W. Bush will not support President Trump in his effort to seek reelection this year. People familiar with his thinking told the New York Times the 43rd president won't back his fellow Republican, who will likely face former Vice President Joe Biden in the general election. Freddy Ford, a spokesman for Bush, said the former president plans to speak out only on policy issues.

After reading 'The Giraffe Problem' by Jory John and Lane Smith, the former first lady, 56, was joined by her husband, Barack Obama, 58, and together the couple read 'A Bear Ate Your Sandwich' by Julia Sarcone-Roach. The two gave an animated reading of the book, with the former president even barking at one point to imitate a dog in the story.

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared on “Good Morning America” on ABC-TV this week and anchor George Stephanopoulos asked him a simple question: “What did you know about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn and was there anything improper done?” “I know nothing about those moves to investigate Michael Flynn,” Biden said before launching into a stumbling diatribe about how questions about the Obama administration’s targeting of Flynn – President Trump’s first national security adviser – are just a “diversion.” But Stephanopoulos – a former top aide to President Bill Clinton, with a background in Democratic politics – didn’t let...

Former first lady Michelle Obama said in her newly-released Netflix documentary Becoming that having children was a “concession” that cost her “aspirations and dreams.” Obama made the remarks while talking about her desire to become “equal” to her husband, President Barack Obama. “My relationship with Barack was all about our equal partnership,” Obama recalled. “If I was going to have a unique voice with this very opinionated man, I had to get myself up and set myself off to a place where I was going to be his equal.” However, the birth of their two daughters, Malia and Sasha, “changed”...

Michelle Obama told the White House butlers to change their uniform because she didn't want her daughters 'thinking that grown African American men serve them in tuxedos'. The former First Lady said the tuxedos sent the wrong message to Malia and Sasha, who were 10 and seven years old when they moved into the White House. . . . Obama says that she and her husband knew that they were a 'provocation' for some parts of America who couldn't accept them. She says: 'How were these people dealing with the fact that a black family was in what they perceived...

CNN’s Don Lemon launched into a bizarre, anti-Trump diatribe on Sunday night, accusing the president of letting President Barack Obama get under his skin because he is “better looking,” better educated” and has a “more accomplished” wife in a now-viral segment. “What is it about President Obama that really gets under your skin? Is it because he’s smarter than you? Better educated? Made it on his own? Didn’t need daddy’s help? Wife is more accomplished? Better looking? I don’t know, what is it? What is it about him? That he’s a black man that’s accomplished being president? That he punked...

Patrick Rooney, Founder of Old School™ (Natural Health / Success / Freedom) discusses Joe Biden's precarious situation and possible "solutions." Now that Joe has been creditably accused of sexual assault by Tara Reade, all bets are off regarding Joe's chances to secure the Democrat nomination for President. Michelle Obama is waiting in the wings. Will Joe pick her as his Vice Presidential nominee, or is it beyond that now? And how does Michelle's husband and ex-President Barack Obama figure into all of this? Patrick discusses it all, leaving no stone unturned. Old School™ https://oldschoolus.com

When she was an associate dean at the University of Chicago, Michelle Obama organized a panel discussion featuring her husband, then a state senator, as well as Bill Ayers, the infamous former leader of the Weather Underground anti-American domestic terrorist group. The detail was documented by this reporter in 2008 and may be among the material that becomes newly relevant amid speculation the former first lady could be picked as Joe Biden’s running mate. Such a move could set off renewed scrutiny of Michelle Obama’s past radical associations. Her husband’s past radical ties became hot button issues during the 2008...

After making a brief comeback on school lunch menus, white bread and other refined grains may be vanishing again when schools reopen after a federal court threw out the Trump administration’s rollback of school nutrition standards. The U.S. district court in Maryland this week said the administration did not give adequate public notice of the change, which had gone into effect for this past school year. The ruling was in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Healthy School Food Maryland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it does not comment on...