Tales From the Obama?s Bedroom
By Katharine Q. Seelye
When is some information too much information?
(Photo: Rick Friedman/World Picture News)In an interview with Glamour magazine, Michelle Obama reveals that her husband, Barack, is so ?snore-y and stinky? when he wakes up in the morning that their daughters won?t crawl into bed with him.
The interview, in the magazine?s October issue, was conducted by Tonya Lewis Lee, who is married to Spike Lee, the filmmaker.
Referring to their daughters, Mrs. Obama says: ?We have this ritual in the morning. They come in my bed, and Dad isn?t there ? because he?s too snore-y and stinky, they don?t want to ever get into bed with him. But we cuddle up and we talk about everything from what is a period to the big topic of when we get a dog: what kind??
Mrs. Obama has been famous, of course, for humanizing her husband with such homespun details, including his habit of not picking up his socks. Is this useful information? With a voracious media out there, the line is getting blurrier and blurrier. But Mrs. Obama seems to feel it serves a purpose.
?Barack is very much human,? Mrs. Obama tells Glamour in response to a reader who wants to know why Mrs. Obama thinks she has been criticized for discussing her home life in such detail. ?So let?s not deify him, because what we do is we deify, and then we?re ready to chop it down. People have notions of what a wife?s role should be in this process, and it?s been a traditional one of blind adoration. My model is a little different ? I think most real marriages are.?
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/tales-from-the-obamas-bedroom/The more i hear from this lady, the more i like her.
