GALLERY: Michelle Obama Gets Emotional In London
By News One April 2, 2009 2:03 pm
From ThePage at Time.com:
FLOTUS delivered her only prepared remarks of European trip at a girl’s school in London Thursday afternoon, at one point getting choking up with emotion during the delivery. Transcript coming from WH. Details below.
Click here for exclusive journalist notes from the speech!
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I am proud that us young black women have a positive black woman that is not in the entertainment industry to look up to and to admire. Keep doing your thing Mrs.Obama!!!!!!!!!!
Michelle Obama makes me soooooo incredibly proud to be a BLACK WOMAN!!!! I love her!! She’s such an inspiration to/ for me as are the women in my life: strong, nuturing, confident, educated, loving, encouraging, & approachable. Now that’s a FIRST LADY!!!
OMG I USED TO GO TO THAT SCHOOL!!! Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School!!!!
no video?
Michelle Obama is an inspiration to every little black girl across the globe. God bless the Obamas!
I pray that all young ladies are really capturing this moment in history.
Mrs. Michelle Obama
Just keep doing you.
Thank You
Yes, ditto “To God Be The Glory”
I LOVE HER! SHE MAKES MY EYES TEAR UP WITH EVERY LITTLE THING SHE DOES!
I Love To C Our Nubian Royalty From The West Representing As So…I Bet U Euro-Americans And Crooked American Media Weren’t Thinkin President Obama And First Lady Would Be Showing And Giving As Much Love As We R Seeing…Hearing Is Believing…Seeing Is Knowing.
Please Remember That…Ase!
Phenomenal woman, not phenomenal black woman. She is positively someone for all young women to emulate. She is “right at home with the rest of those prestigous and eloquent women because she is comfortable with who she is as a human.
All young ladies should look to Our First Lady and learn how a Prominent, Elegant, Intelligent, Independent, and Professional Black Woman should be. Mrs. Michelle Obama, I Salute You!!
Awe inspiring,gives you a view of how things are gonna be soon. What really touched me was when I watched on Telivision today and she hugged the “Queen” and she hugged her back.I thought it was very special since no one is never suppose to touch the Queen.
She is the true definition of a Phenomenal woman
…why can’t all black women be like her? so elegant, so intelligent, so beautiful.
Look at her…right at home with the rest of those prestigous and eloquent women!
as my thinking exactly
Great article. The last picture is a wonderful photo showing the elegance of women world wide. Well Done. To God Be The Glory.