Barack Obama is who America needs: Wife Michelle wins over sceptics with emotional speech
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 12:31PM 
This is for you, daddy: Sasha Obama, seven, blows a kiss to her father via a satellite link while her mother Michelle and sister Maria, 10, look onMichelle Obama gave the most important speech of her life as she attempted to persuade America to elect her husband.
In an emotion-filled speech to the Democratic Party convention last night, she said Barack Obama would make ‘an extraordinary president’.
As the wife of possibly the first black man to lead the US, it was also her opportunity to show voters that she has what it takes to be First Lady.
Standing before almost 20,000 people, with every word cheered, Mrs Obama spoke about her life with her husband and said he was the change that America needed.
She spoke of her husband’s values as a husband and father and highlighted her working class roots during her speech at the Pepsi Centre in Denver, Colorado, saying: ‘I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago by a father who was a blue collar city worker, and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me. more
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