Speaking to graduates at Tuskegee University in Alabama on Saturday, First Lady Michelle Obama confessed, in what CNN called “an impassioned and personal commencement speech,” that she suffered “a lot of sleepless nights” in 2008.
Michelle Obama says race made '08 campaign hard: "I had a lot of sleepless nights worrying what people thought of me" http://t.co/dIpbIiD07X
— Connor Ryan (@connortryan) May 10, 2015
“As potentially the first African-American First Lady,” The Hill reports her as saying, “I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations; conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others. Was I too loud, or too angry, or too emasculating?”
Michelle Obama speaks of emotional toll of being first black first lady: http://t.co/UmC8HWkTH0 pic.twitter.com/8LaPJ6N6Km
— The Hill (@thehill) May 10, 2015
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@thehill if self pity were corruption she'd be Hillary.
— Will Davis (@willpdavis) May 10, 2015
@thehill Cry me a river. Every single Democrat is some kind of victim. Shouldn't she be happy about that? Nooo, it's some kind of burden….
— wingandaprayer (@midgetmustang) May 10, 2015
@thehill America weeps. https://t.co/WupbbYGnPb
— Razor (@hale_razor) May 10, 2015
@thehill please mooch, just #stfu
— TimeToRide (@bgoum) May 10, 2015
So get out of the kitchen. You will not be missed.@thehill
— VACUOUS CIPHER (@THE_DAILY_BLEAT) May 10, 2015
The kitchen? Don’t you remember when the first lady said the White House was like living in a “really nice prison”?
@thehill Awww. So sorry Michelle. If I were you, I would reduce my stress by making my husband resign so you could move back to Chicago.
— BJ Walter (@BJBWalter) May 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/JamesCpatriot/status/597229067872673792
@hale_razor @thehill Check out the White House food orders. Between the travel, food, lifestyle, she has it tough.
— Alan Stump (@AlanStump1) May 10, 2015
@thehill she has drained us emotionally
— UN-REDACTED (@SonnySondog7) May 10, 2015
When you're solidly middle-class, attend Ivy League school, become First Lady, and you're still fucking bitching. https://t.co/uisDBtKtkg
— Carl Gustav (@CaptYonah) May 10, 2015
@CaptYonah Think of OUR emotional toll with her as 1st lady.
— Natasha Fatale, Pottsylvanian Spy & Bombshell (@N_Fatale) May 10, 2015
@CaptYonah @thehill The audacity is stunning.
— Name Can Be Blank (@__Going_gone) May 10, 2015
@CaptYonah @thehill Yep..all those luxury vacations, designer clothes and being waited on must really suck..#thestruggle
— WhigsnTwigs (@WhigsnTwigs) May 10, 2015
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