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 2:36 PM, May 1, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERMichelle Obama seems to have tried out a new campaign slogan at today's fundraiser in Las Vegas.
"I’m not going to kid you," the first lady said at the fundraiser, according to the pool report. "This journey is going to be long. And it’s going to be hard. And there are going to be plenty of twists and turns along the way. That’s how change always happens in this country. The reality is real change is slow and it never happens all at once."
Seems like a winning slogan to me! "Change is slow."
"Michelle Obama addressed about 130 people at a private fundraising breakfast at a café inside The Springs Preserve, a 180-acre protected nature area a few miles from the Las Vegas Strip," according to the pool report. "The guests paid at least $2,500 each, raising more than $300,000 for the Obama Victory Fund, a committee raising funds for his re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee."
One wonders how receptive these high dollar attendees were to the new tone.
UPDATE: According to the official White House transcript, Michelle Obama also got the name of venue wrong. "And I also want to thank The Springs Reserve [sic] and the Culinary Academy for hosting us here today," the first lady said. "This is a beautiful site. As often as I have been here, I didn't know this was here." She spoke at the Springs Preserve.
1:55 PM, Apr 26, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERAt a bring your kids to work day event at the White House, Michelle Obama said that she isn't interested in running for president. "Absolutely not. No," the first lady said in response to a question from a kid on whether she'll "ever run for president."
Read more... 4:49 PM, Apr 17, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERMichelle Obama made a remarkable claim when talking up her husband, President Barack Obama, at a campaign event earlier today in Nashville, Tennessee.
Read more... 2:56 PM, Apr 14, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERThe largest donor to President Obama's super PAC blasted Ann Romney, the wife of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, last night on his HBO TV show for having "never gotten her a-- out of the house to work."
Read more... 7:27 AM, Mar 29, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERThe most recent fundraising letter from Barack Obama's reelection campaign:
Read more... Michelle Obama’s theology of the body. Mar 26, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 27 • By MEGHAN CLYNE
On February 11, as the debate over the Obama administration’s rule forcing religious institutions to provide insurance for contraceptive and aborti-facient drugs to their employees was reaching fever pitch, a prominent American said:
Read more... 4:04 PM, Jul 21, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERFirst lady Michelle Obama, at a Joining Forces screening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two earlier today, revealed that her husband, Barack Obama, is a fan of the megahit Harry Potter series.
"How many Harry Potter fans are here?" Michelle Obama asked the crowd. "How many people have read all the books and seen all the movies? Well, you’re right along with the president and my girls. They’ve seen the movie already. They lined right up."
Read more... Churches get roped into the first lady’s obesity crusade.Apr 11, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 29 • By MEGHAN CLYNE
Sometimes the most important message of a speech is communicated by the atmospherics—timing, audience, venue. So it’s worth noting that, to mark the first anniversary of her Let’s Move! campaign against childhood obesity in February, First Lady Michelle Obama spoke not at a school or a kids’ recreational facility but at the North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia.
Read more... 10:38 AM, Jul 29, 2010 • By NIK NELSON
Boy Scouts celebrated their 100-year anniversary at their National Jamboree in Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia this week. President Obama decided not to attend, so he could instead tape his appearance on The View. That's too bad.
Read more... Public policy helps determine where economic activity occurs.5:30 AM, Jul 22, 2010 • By JIM PREVOR
Those who want to see better public policy in America owe a high five to LeBron James.
Read more... 10:10 AM, May 10, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAMJust 13 years after a famine that wiped out millions of its people and three years after a flood that aggravated frequent food shortages, caused by an authoritarian dictator who doesn't allow citizens to farm or sell food privately and has a history of rejecting international humanitarian aid, the country of North Korea has tackled its obesity problem.
So reports World Health Organization General-Director Margaret Chan:
Read more... 12:25 PM, Feb 10, 2010 • By MARY KATHARINE HAMWhen Michelle Obama was asked about Sarah Palin repeatedly by Larry King during an interview last night, she didn't get rude and off message by making fun of the former vice presidential candidate.
Read more... Against the fat-acceptance crowd.2:42 PM, Feb 9, 2010 • By SONNY BUNCHMichelle Obama recently kicked up a mild fuss by discussing her children while talking about childhood obesity. Per ABC News, Obama said at an event kicking off her childhood obesity awareness campaign: "I didn't see the changes. And that's also part of the problem, or part of the challenge.
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