Michelle Obama teaches London girls that brains are beautiful: Chicago Tribune
Monday, April 6, 2009 at 8:57AM (text skip)
After Obama told the girls to embrace education, she embraced as many of them as she could to the point that it made her Secret Service guys jittery.
What the girls, most of them from the inner city, saw in the first lady was a woman who was smart and put together, but not so prim and perfect that she seemed just-peeled from a glossy magazine. She was smudge-able and touchable and even three-dimensional.
Something else made Obama accessible at this school where nearly 90 percent of the girls are an ethnic minority. Obama probably looks more like them than most of Europe's female dignitaries who traipse across their school stage and television screens. more
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