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February 22, 2010, Monday
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MICHELLE Obama tries her best to shut out press criticism in her bid to see the real America, she said in a TV interview at the weekend.
The US first lady says the people she's met and the causes she's taken up have put her in touch with a side of the country far removed from the tempest of attack politics and nasty commentary.
"Most of America isn't like that and they're tired of that," she said. "You know, they want folks to get stuff done. The beauty of my job is that I get to see more of that America. And that feeds me."
Her remark in the 2008 campaign that she was "really proud" of her country for the first time fed doubts in some quarters about whether she stood for mainstream values, to the point that she felt compelled to declare "I love this country" at the Democratic convention.
Those doubts about her appear to have subsided, she told host Mike Huckabee on Fox News, a network whose commentators played no small part in questioning her patriotism.
Polls suggest she is a more popular first lady than either Hillary Clinton or Laura Bush were early in their husbands' administrations.
Obama said she prefers to form impressions of what's going on from her own experiences in and outside of Washington, and "I try to keep home kind of a news-free zone." That's how she gets a different vantage point of America, she said.
"It's decent and it's kind and it's hopeful - and it's critical and it's demanding, but it's courageous."
The US first lady says the people she's met and the causes she's taken up have put her in touch with a side of the country far removed from the tempest of attack politics and nasty commentary.
"Most of America isn't like that and they're tired of that," she said. "You know, they want folks to get stuff done. The beauty of my job is that I get to see more of that America. And that feeds me."
Her remark in the 2008 campaign that she was "really proud" of her country for the first time fed doubts in some quarters about whether she stood for mainstream values, to the point that she felt compelled to declare "I love this country" at the Democratic convention.
Those doubts about her appear to have subsided, she told host Mike Huckabee on Fox News, a network whose commentators played no small part in questioning her patriotism.
Polls suggest she is a more popular first lady than either Hillary Clinton or Laura Bush were early in their husbands' administrations.
Obama said she prefers to form impressions of what's going on from her own experiences in and outside of Washington, and "I try to keep home kind of a news-free zone." That's how she gets a different vantage point of America, she said.
"It's decent and it's kind and it's hopeful - and it's critical and it's demanding, but it's courageous."
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