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  Obama and his wife Michelle have devoted much of their adult lives to public service, and two small daughters.

Kelly Bronk student in the School of Journalism in the graduation year at the University of Northwestern Illinois.

Barack Obama will be a family if he wins the presidential election in November 2008, First American family of African descent to move into the White House.

Aware of Obama and his wife, Michelle, 44 years old, just how important this campaign, which opened the way what is meant by this historic run for many Americans. Mrs. Obama’s speech in the campaign repeatedly to the 10-year-old girl interviewed in a beauty salon in the state of South Carolina. Said the girl told her that if Obama is elected president, “it means that I can imagine anything for myself.”

Mrs. Obama told Newsweek magazine, saying that the girl “It could be because I’m not supposed to be, in fact I’m here, standing here; I am a statistical anomaly. Black girl grew up in the South Side of Chicago. Was I supposed to go to (University) Princeton? No … They said maybe Harvard Law was too much for difficult to access. but I went, and succeeded. There is no doubt that it is not supposed to be standing here. ”

Michelle Robinson was born and raised in a working-class family in Chicago, Illinois. Her father worked in the municipal water department, and was supervisor of the constituency of the Democratic Party, while her mother was a housewife accompany her home to take care of her and her brother older, Craig.
Michelle Obama’s visit to a military school for the children’s nursery in Norfolk, Virginia

Michelle studied hard and effort in high school, and got a scholarship to study at Princeton University in 1985. After earning a bachelor’s degree in sociology with a minor in African studies – the U.S., affiliated with the Faculty of Law at Harvard University.

Barack Obama met Michelle Robinson in 1989 when she was a fellow in the office of law firm Sidley & Austin in Chicago, Illinois, and assigned to mentor Obama, who was serving a train during the summer in the organization. Obama asked Robinson to attend one of its community organizing in Chicago. She accepted and attended a meeting, she told Newsweek magazine that he spoke to participants about bridging the gap between “the world as it is, and the world as it should be.”

They continued to date, and the couple married in 1992. The Obamas a passion for public service and have devoted a significant portion of their adult lives to careers in public service.

Mrs. Obama, after leaving the firm, where they had met with Barak, several centers in the city government of Chicago and the founding executive director of the “Public Olaiz – Chicago” (allies of public affairs in Chicago), an organization that encourages young people to seek work in public services. Most recently, she served as vice president for community and external affairs at the Medical Center of the University of Chicago.

Dr Mira Gotn, historian and professor of communications at Rider University in New Jersey, in the description of Michelle “It certainly seems to be someone who would take advantage of the platform provided by the White House.” She is bright, and articulate, and has professional experience in management. ”

Obama and his wife hoped to assist the enthusiasm for public service and their extensive professional successes Obama’s victory in the November elections November. But for the Obama daughters Malia, $ 10, and Sasha (short for Natasha), 7 years, constitute two of the driving forces behind his desire to become president and have a positive impact in the world. If Obama wins the election, his daughters will be the youngest inhabitants of the White House since Amy Carter lived there, which was then at the age of nine when her father was elected, Jimmy Carter, President of the United States in 1976.