Michelle Obama Not Running For Office Because It Takes “a Great Deal of Patience”
In an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters, First Lady Michelle Obama set the record straight, making it clear that she doesn’t have any plans to run for 
office.
“I have learned from my husband, watching him, that it does require a great deal of patience to really feel the full impact of the work that you do on the ground,” FLOTUS said. “It doesn’t happen right away.”
When Walters asked Mrs. Obama what she’d change about herself, Obama said she’d like more patience.
“I’d be more patient. I think I’ve gotten more patient over the years,” Obama said. “I’m constantly working on just being patient with myself and not letting my expectations get ahead of what’s happening now.”
Even though the first lady has never expressed a personal interest in one day running for office, others have suggested she should run.
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) said in an interview with Newsweek that Michelle Obama running for office would be a “breath of fresh air in D.C.”
“She’s honest and straightforward, which is not what you see in Washington much. She is exactly what we need around here,” Clyburn said.
Much of this speculation has come as a result of a recent poll which found that, in a hypothetical matchup, Michelle Obama leads Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) by double digits. So by saying she has no plans for running, FLOTUS surely let the air out of some people who were eyeing her to be the candidate in that Senate run.
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Michelle is right…and those clowns that are in the Congress now would make a good woman want to have them all locked up in a mental ward in straight jackets. She should go pursue her goals and ideas in other arenas…not politics.
The latest insider news as to why Ms. Lisa Jackson…Black woman EPA director… is leaving is that she was constantly battling with the GOP nutcases over protection from pollution for air and water ..and arguing with others too about that KEYSTONE PIPELINE.
She got sick of them constantly letting the oil companies get their way…and killing our eco-system. There are some that think that the Gov’t is causing these WILD WEATHER DISASTERS…but it is actually that the Gov’t is not doing enough to stop the cause of it…POLLUTION and BURNING TOO MANY FOSSIL FUELS.
It has been reported that her conscience would not let her be part of the ignorance and wanton destruction of our planet by the rich oil, coal, and gas companies — who have already put us on the path to self-destruction via global warming.
And??????
Ms. Obama can find better causes to support…or she can go raise funds for disaster victims. She would be wasting her time and talent going into politics.
All of us better pay attention to what is going on with the weather and quit spending so much time trying to slam our Black President. If you are not UPSET at the GOP…the Tea Party and the other rightwing nuts…then you have nothing to complain about at all.
those rightwing nuts in Congress…like Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, Bachmann and others have done nothing but BLOCK almost every bill that the Dems and Pres. Obama presented — THE AMER. JOBS BILL, and some for hiring Vets, extending unemployment…and others.
Right now…they are s******g the “Fiscal Cliff” deal…and many will suffer from that…by the fact that MILK prices will go up, the Sandy storm victims will get no funds (at least not soon) and others will suffer from losing benefits, unemployment, etc.
THOSE BLACK POWER ADVOCATES WHO KEEP POSTING THE FOUL STUFF ABOUT OBAMA… and saying we should “go back to Africa and get away from White folks”…. are not telling you about the major threat — which has hit Africa …and other countries already hard and now we are being effected by the wild weather.
Bishop Tutu is fighting against it…check out this video:
http://youtu.be/Tbo5oh2JMD0
BUT THERE ARE SOME FOLKS who cannot say a foul word about those rightwing Tea-Publican scoundrels. Many of them are also hooked up with Neo-Nazis, Birchers, the Koch Brothers, or even some “white power” groups.
In addition, the rightwingers have tried to DUPE us into not realizing that a lot of ” Govt welfare money” goes to BIG OIL…and other rich companies. BIG OIL and COAL companies are the main culprits in GLOBAL WARMING disaster that threatens to wreck this planet. Africa has already been hit very hard by the droughts and wild weather. WHERE ARE THE COMMENTS AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS???