Michelle Obama likes just being “Meesh”
ORLANDO – First lady Michelle Obama craves normalcy sometimes. The woman who has seemingly endless options living at the White House loves it most when she can hang out and just be “Meesh” to her family and friends.
Obama, who realizes her life will get even busier leading up to the Nov. 6 election, said she tries to get away from the “bubble” created by security and media at the White House and be as much of a regular person as she can.
“I go shopping. I go to my friends’ houses for dinner,” she said in an interview with a few reporters.
“Barack and I try as much as possible to get the girls out of the White House,” she said about her daughters Malia and Sasha. “That is important to us. There’s a freedom of getting them into some normalcy. When they’re outside of the bubble -– even if it’s going for a walk or going skiing or going for a bike ride — it just reminds them that their life is normal.”
A fond memory is taking the girls and traveling to Oregon not too long ago to see her brother Craig Robinson and his family.
“We stayed in his house, we sat on the back porch and we had barbeque. It was important for me to go there. We still are members of a family. We still have cousins and nieces and nephews who don’t see us in any other way other than ‘Meesh’ –- which is what my family calls me –- and ‘Barack.’ Those are the kind of other things that tend to be important.”
Michelle Obama rocks out with kids in Des Moines
“Let’s Moooooove!” Michelle Obama yelled, standing on stage with Iowa celebrities, Olympic athletes and college students to lead 14,000 kids in dancing to celebrate the second anniversary of her healthy eating and fitness initiative.
Dressed in a red and white sweater with a heart on it, the first lady smiled broadly as she jumped and clapped, making the Ninja moves and fist pumps of the Northern Iowa University dance “The Interlude.”
After the dance, a breathless Bob Harper — one of the trainers on the Biggest Loser TV show — presented Obama with a massive cake to celebrate the program’s second birthday.
In keeping with the healthy eating mantra of the “Let’s Move” program, the multi-story cake was made of layers of bananas, apples, grapes, oranges, pineapples and grapefruit.
Photo credits: Michelle Obama at an event to promote her “Let’s Move” initiative at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, February 9, 2012. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
One telling sign, IMO, in the difference between the vitriol lobbed at Obama by the righties compared to the vitriol lobbed at Bush from the lefties is this; the left almost never attacked Mrs. Bush, while the right regularly goes after Mrs. Obama. I also think this is more evidence of the rights attitude toward the president and our country, if it is not ‘our’ guy/girl, they have no respect for the office and the person.