Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama and the Four Tenets...

Michelle Obama has a powerful presence and comes off as everybody's best girlfriend during this speech.

She takes a perfect starting approach and humanizes herself - she succeeds in showing the audience that she is a down to earth everyday woman. Obama opens with an approach that is near and dear to my heart - and I am sure the sentiment wasn't lost on the multitude of Americans watching - her daughters. She opens up about how her girls are the first thing she thinks about in the morning and the last thing she thinks of at night.

She manages to let the world know that she - like the rest of us- is concerned with the state of the world they are growing up in and she gives us a glimpse of the world that she hopes they will inherit when they are older.

She states how she is adamant about instilling in them the values of hard work not of entitlement. She wants her girls to have a world class education and to grow up in a safe loving environment where they can feel a part of the community and not like an outsider looking in. And not only are these values that are important to her but she believes that they are important to all of us - no matter what community or financial circumstance we may be in- she advocates for every American child to be able to walk down the street unafraid and is adamant that the American dream should be accessible to all.

Michelle also took the time to talk about her role as a daughter and how much she admired her father - who battled MS for much of his adult life - for the fact that he never quit. He persevered through the pain, made slight adjustments to his everyday life so that his family wouldn't see his struggles, and he never complained.

Michelle made it obvious that her father didn't quit and by his example Michelle and her brother didn't quit.

It is obvious by watching Michelle that her love of family is genuine. That she is truly happy with where her life has taken her and given her. She infects us all with her all encompassing smile, her nostalgic stories, and her want/need to lift us all collectively to her bosom and deliver us from our pain, our heartaches, our uncertainties in regards to where we are going as individuals and where we are heading as a nation.