Commentary: Let Michelle Obama's real self shine: CNN

Quoted via CNN:

NEW YORK (CNN) — She’s been clear about her priorities.

The self-professed Mom-in-Chief is focused on getting her family settled into a new home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, buying a puppy, and enrolling daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, in their elite new private school.

Admirable concerns and certainly ones that every mother, or father, would consider in the face of any move — let alone a move to the most famous address in the world. But when you’re discussing a woman as accomplished as Michelle Obama, you can’t help but wonder: Can’t there be more?

Perhaps, but for the nation’s first black first lady, it won’t be easy. more