“I have seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are -- no -- it reveals who you are,” the first lady said yesterday in her address to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The first lady described seeing her husband in the White House “in those quiet moments late at night, hunched over his desk, poring over the letters people have sent him” about their woes. “For Barack, success isn’t about how much money you make, it is about the difference you make in people’s lives,” she said.
Rusted-Out Car
She recalled how her husband used to pick her up for dates in a rusted-out car. She spoke of how her father kept working as a pump operator at a water plant after his multiple sclerosis diagnosis and how the president’s grandmother’s banking career was limited by a glass ceiling for women.
“They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did,” she said of their families. “In fact, they admired it.”
And today, her husband “believes that when you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity you do not slam it shut behind you. No. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.”
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