“Senator Obama was raised by a very competent and professional woman and he is married to a very competent and professional woman. He has included women in leadership roles at all levels of the campaign.”
Behind every great presumptive Presidential nominee is a great team.
Meet the women behind Senator Obama. They’re smart, powerful and willing to work round the clock on their candidate’s campaign.
First and foremost is Barack’s devoted wife, Michelle, to whom he’s been married for 16 years. His former Harvard Law School colleagues say that once he met Michelle in summer 1989 he curtailed dating anyone else even though he and Michelle didn’t start dating until that fall.
Michelle boosted her husband’s image last Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” when she won over the tough all-female round table as a guest host.
“I wear my heart on my sleeve, and when you put your heart out there, it’s a risk that you take,” said the Ivy League-educated lawyer when asked by her co-hosts about being scrutinized by the media.
“People are not used to strong women,” she added. “Hillary Clinton has created 18 million cracks on the ceiling, and we need to keep pushing it and pushing it.”
Linda Douglass – Travelling spokeswoman. She left ABC News, where she covered Congress, to be a traveling spokeswoman for Obama. She says part of the draw was that the old-boys’-club notion of politics seemed to have disappeared. “Now it seems like the men like to talk about their kids, and the women often follow sports. We are all pretty much on the same plane in this campaign,” says Douglass.
