On Wednesday evening I saw Michelle Obama at the Xcel Energy
Center in Saint Paul. She was appearing as part of her book tour to promote her
excellent book Becoming, which I reviewed here. Obama appeared with Michele Norris, former host of NPR’s All Things Considered. It was a
memorable evening, and it was a lot of fun to see Michelle Obama in person. It’s
hard to really call it “an intimate conversation” when you’re speaking to about
15,000 people, but Michelle Obama did a good job of making it feel as though we
were just listening to her chat with Michele Norris.
Obama’s humor really struck me—there were several times during
the evening when I laughed pretty hard. Michelle Obama seems like a really cool
person, and if you have the opportunity to see her in person, you should do it.
Obama also does a great job of connecting with young people in whatever
community she’s in, and the evening began with several Twin Cities women
talking about who they are in the process of becoming. I like the title of
Obama’s book, and I really like the idea that we are all “becoming” something.
As Obama says in the book, it isn’t like you just become something and then
never change or grow after that. We’re always continuing to change and do
different things in our lives. It will be interesting to see how involved
Michelle Obama stays with public policy and what she does in her post-First
Lady career. I know she’s ruled out running for President in 2020, but I think
she’d be a darn good President.
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