Eye on Obama: Michelle enters the race
12 05 2007
Michelle Obama, wife of Barack and a high flying lawyer, has left her job to campaign full time for her husband. Michelle Obama was vice president of community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals, where she also managed the Hospitals’ business diversity program. Michelle worked as an associate at corporate law firm Sidley and Austin, which is where she met Barack, in the area of marketing and intellectual property, before leaving the corporate law world in 1991 to pursue a legal career in public service. She, like Barack, is a graduate of Havard Law School. Her role is seen as important, particularly in relation to winning the women’s and African American votes. The Times carries an interesting profile on her today.
I really think wives shouldn’t be a factor in these things - I vote on the candidate, not on the family. I also read that Americans have an aversion to high flying career women - how far that country has to go.