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Stacy Conradt
The Quick 10: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Michelle Obama
by Stacy Conradt - November 3, 2008 - 3:10 PM

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We know lots – maybe way too much – about John McCain and Barack Obama. And we know a little bit about their wives, too. Set aside the politics, though, and Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama are very interesting women in their own rights. So today and tomorrow we’re going to focus on the two of them, minus their presidential-hopeful husbands.

michelle1. Her brother, Craig Robinson, is head men’s basketball coach at Oregon State University. He was actually a fourth-round draft pick for the 76ers in 1983, but never played.
2. She is childhood friends with Jesse Jackson’s daughter Santita, who sang at their 1992 wedding.
3.She and her brother (who is only 16 months older than her) both skipped second grade, which appears to be pretty common in the Robinson family: both of their parents skipped a grade as well.
4. Competition with her brother motivated her in her education. When she visited him at Princeton, she thought, “I’m smarter than he is,” and decided right there that she wanted to apply at the school. She did, even though some of her teachers advised against it, and got in.
5. Her dad was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when he was in his 20s.

6. She used to be a trademark/copyright lawyer for Sidley Austin in Chicago (which is where she met Barack, who was interning there).

7. She quit Sidley Austin to work in various public service jobs for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley.

8. She once brought her then-four-month-old daughter to a job interview. With another daughter, she wasn’t sure if she wanted the job or not, and brought Sasha to sort of sabotage the interview. She did such a fine job interviewing, she was offered the position anyway.

9. She likes off-the-rack clothes for campaigning, including the Gap, J. Crew, White House/Black Market and H&M. However, she also likes clothes by couture designer Maria Pinto.

10. As a kid, her favorite toys were Barbie and Easy-Bake Oven.

Stay tuned for Cindy McCain tomorrow! And thanks to Kathleen Pierce for the research.

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Comments (9)

  1. what an interesting lady.
    Are they going to reveal Mrs. McCain is a Cyborg tomorrow?
    …the suspense is killing me.

    posted by Future Mrs. Frusciante on 11-3-2008 at 3:53 pm

  2. We obviously need a Quick 10 about Alaska’s ‘first dude’, right?

    posted by cat on 11-3-2008 at 4:55 pm

  3. For all you Todd Palin fans, check out Scott Allen’s guide to the Iron Dog snowmachine race:

    mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/19450

    posted by Jason English on 11-3-2008 at 5:05 pm

  4. off the rack clothes my butt. she is the antithesis of the people Bacrock is claiming to want to help. How do Will and Mangesh feel about their taxes going up so that the bottom 60% of Americans can get a bigger refund? I’m not in the percent over 250K, but I’m smart enough to know that taxing the “rich” slows down the economy. sheeple are idiots.

    stacy is hot!

    posted by tommy on 11-3-2008 at 9:56 pm

  5. On one hand, I agree that everyone, including the “rich” should have a say in what happens to their own money. On the other hand, as a wise man once said, “If you’re in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ece?print=yes

    posted by pc on 11-3-2008 at 11:48 pm

  6. 10 things I still don’t care to know about her.

    posted by Shawn on 11-4-2008 at 10:12 am

  7. Reminds me of a person who “knows” what is best for other people, and will shove it down their throat whether they like it or not.

    posted by Mr. T on 11-4-2008 at 1:42 pm

  8. Relax, people. It’s a four year gig. Those of you who voted for two terms of W.Bush are partly responsible for Obama’s rise. Be sure to thank W. as he makes his way out of the White House and best of luck remaking the GOP.

    posted by CV on 11-4-2008 at 4:01 pm

  9. Oh,come on! It’s not like these are (still) the wives of Congressmen or Supreme Court Justices. When you get right down to it, the President isn’t nearly as powerful as they would have you think.
    Case in point: John Marshall.

    posted by SpecialAgentBaker on 11-4-2008 at 4:53 pm

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