Don't Forget to Watch "The Closer" Tonight: NO...Not the TV show Michelle !

Michelle Obama will be speaking at the opening night of the Democratic convention and the anticipation is high. Please go here to read a wonderful article on Michelle; I think it's one of the best I've read about her so far.

A few choice excerpts I loved :

She is also a bold and beautiful Glamazon, rather than the wife next door like Laura Bush, which can be intimidating. She is at ease on the cover of high-fashion glossies and tabloid magazines. She will wear clothes from Gap one day and Alexander McQueen the next; the first time I met her, at a black-tie dinner in Washington, she was wearing a daring champagne silk bustier and had the look-at-me quality of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Behind the scenes, she made sure Obama left nothing to chance. It was Michelle who often called party VIPs and congressmen, assuring them they had a game plan for winning and always remembering to write thank-you notes afterwards.

Frasier Robinson, her father, was diagnosed at 30 with MS but carried on working with the aid of two walking sticks in increasing pain for 25 years. “He carried out his responsibilities to his family without a trace of self-pity, giving himself an extra hour every morning to get to work, struggling with every physical act from driving a car to buttoning his shirt, smiling and joking as he laboured . . . across a field to watch his son play, or across the living room to give his daughter a kiss,” Obama wrote admiringly in his memoir, The Audacity of Hope.

Obama, the son of a feckless father with eight children by four mothers, was partly drawn to Michelle because of her steady family background. When they met, she was his senior at a law firm in Chicago and was reluctant to date the handsome newcomer. The secretaries insisted he was cute, but “I figured they were just impressed with any black man in a suit”, she said.

In the end she was the one who closed the deal on their marriage. Obama didn’t feel the need to get hitched – “He was like, marriage, it doesn’t mean anything; it’s really how you feel,” she said – but she told him she was not the kind of girl to hang around. “You know that is just not who I am,” she said firmly.