I recently read Barack and Michelle Obama's love story. If you have been following the US presidential election, you will know that this man is potentially going to be one of the most powerful man in the future. Infact the future of America and how it affects the world, may lie in his hands.
I believe a man in his position with all the pressure of a political life and running a country, he definitely need a strong support system at home. For eg. Bill Clinton is very lucky to have Hilary Clinton stand beside him even when he made the biggest mistake of his life.
For Barack Obama, he has Michelle Obama. She has proven herself to be worthy of a wife that is so supportive of her husband, so strong in her values and know what are the right priorities of her life.
She has famously said that her 2 beautiful girls are the "center of the universe" for her and Barack.
How Barack and Michelle Met:
The Obama romance began in the spring of 1988. Michelle was a first-year attorney at a Chicago law firm. Word rippled through the law office that a hot-shot Harvard law student would be working at the firm that summer. She saw a photograph of the new hire and was less than dazzled.
She told Chicago Sun Times in 2004 "I thought, OK, he's probably not all that terrific, and he's probably kind of a clown, and then I found out that his name was Barack Obama, And like everybody else, Ithought, 'Well, what kind of name is that?'"
Michelle learned she'd been assigned to mentor the new guy. He reportedly didn't have much interest in corporate law, but did have a lot of interest in Michelle. Barack was less geeky than he appeared in his photo, and he wasn't the cocky Harvard student she'd been expecting.
Michelle found herself laughing at the same things as Barack. "I was charmed, and we became instant friends after [the] first conversation," Michelle Obama said.
"We should go out. He had no special lines. Barack's not some line-giver." Michelle said this of Barack recently to Ryan Seacreast on his KIIS FM radio show. At first, she said no to Barack repeatedly. She wasn't keen on office dating. Michelle even tried to fix him up with other young women. But the future U.S. senator wouldn't give in.
"Eventually I wore her down," he wrote in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope.
Their first date included a day at the Art Institute of Chicago, a drink at the top of the John Hancock Center, and a movie -- Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing."
"He swept me off my feet," said Michelle Obama, recalling how her date made her laugh and intrigued her with his "deep understanding" of art.
Sitting on a curb, they shared their first kiss over Baskin-Robbins ice cream.
"I asked her if I could kiss her," Obama wrote. "It tasted of chocolate."
She said "she fell in love with him for the same reason many other people respect him; his connection with people."
Wedding Date: On October 18, 1992, Michelle and Barack's wedding ceremony was performed by Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois.
Children:Barack and Michelle have two daughters, Malia Ann Obama: Born in 1999 and Natasha Obama: Born in 2001.
And now he could be the President of America and she could be first lady. Whatever happens, I hope they will always the special simple love story of how they met and how they fell in love.
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