Michelle Obama: Will she be Jackie O or Cherie Blair?
Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 12:19PM
Throughout the Democratic campaign, Michelle Obama was known by senior party advisers as 'the Closer' for her skill at persuading undecided voters to sign their pledge cards.
Today those same advisers do not underestimate her role in closing the ultimate deal: elevating her husband to the presidency and making history herself as the first black First Lady.
Like her husband's, Michelle's has been a rapid and momentous journey. It is only 18 months since she scaled back on her demanding $273,000-a-year public relations role for the University of Chicago Hospital, a job which made her the primary earner in the family, to support Barack on the campaign trail.
Today sees her at the start of another, equally tricky venture: navigating life as a new kind of First Lady, who has been hailed in some quarters as the 21st-century version of perhaps the most famous First Lady of all, Jacqueline Kennedy. more

























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