In their first joint magazine cover, First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden grace the April 24 issue of PARADE magazine to discuss their first joint project, Joining Forces, which supports and honors the families of the nation’s service members.
The First Lady mentioned:
When I started campaigning for my husband, I wanted to meet with groups of women to make sure their stories were a part of the conversation in his campaign and potentially in his administration. Everywhere I went there were military spouses, and their stories took my breath away – the pain of multiple deployments, trying to keep the family afloat. I remember sitting and crying with a group of them. Studies show that many military families feel like the country doesn’t recognize or appreciate (them). And it breaks my heart, because they’re serving as passionately and deeply and proudly as the men and women in uniform.
Dr. Biden added: “We just need to say to America, ‘Wake up. You need to support these families and we need to lift them up and really value them.’”
Check out more snippets from the exclusive interview below.
PARADE: Mrs. Obama, in a recent Quinnipiac poll, their so-called National Feeling Thermometer, you got the warmest rating. You got 60.1 degrees, better than any other politician, which you’re not. The President of the United States got 56.5 degrees. So what makes you so warm and fuzzy to the American people?
OBAMA: Well, if people feel warmth for me, that’s a good thing. You know, I think I am a warm person. It helps that I’m able to pick issues that are really authentic to me in some way, shape, or form. And I think that’s the beauty of [my and Jill’s] roles is that issues aren’t thrown at us unlike our husbands. We get to make concrete decisions about what brings us passion. And when you’re working on anything that you care deeply about, that shines through. And perhaps that’s what people are feeling, but it’s hard to… That’s one of those embarrassing things. [laughs] Why am I so lovable?
PARADE: Americans can be somewhat schizophrenic about what they want the First Lady and the vice president’s wife to be. Are you the Mom-in-Chiefs? Are you meant to set policy? Are you meant to be warm and fuzzy? What have you learned about what the American people expect your roles to be?
BIDEN: I think we set what we want our roles to be. I mean, I’m a grandmother, and a mother, and a teacher, and Michelle has her own roles. We’ve chosen different subjects to focus on, but we’ve also chosen military families to work together on. I hope that Americans feel that we complement one another.
PARADE: In past interviews, Mrs. Obama has spoken quite eloquently about Laura Bush’s helpfulness when she came here and of the trail blazing of Hillary Clinton. Dr. Biden, is there a Second Lady who gave you great advice?
BIDEN: Tipper Gore. She called me the day that we were chosen and after the election, and I’ve met with her a couple times. She said, “Just be who you’ve always been.” That was great advice, and I think I’ve followed that. I’m still a teacher, I’m still a mother involved with my children and a grandmother involved with my grandchildren. It’s just now at a higher profile level, of course.
Really nice cover! I rarely see Biden’s wife anywhere, so this is a lovely surprise for a good cause
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Very nice portrait cover pic. They r sure going to bat for the troops. They r to be lauded for their work and untiring efforts along with their husbands.
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That’s exactly right….implicitly. The photo is also framed to symbolize both the unity of the races and feminism, but the deeper, more arcane theme is the blue and red lodges of “masonry” (luciferianism) and the coming together of opposites (white woman and black woman/Baphomet principles). Like most photos that attempt to convey black and white “fellowship”, the black person is posed in a much more supportive manner of the white person than vice-a-versa. Notice that they both have their rear hand around the other’s waist, but Michelle Obama’s right hand is on Biden’s leg, while Biden’s left hand rests on her own leg. The photo is conditioning to enforce something in black women which they are already trained to do oh so well, which is protect master at all costs.
are you kidding me? ppl always have something bad to say no matter how good the cause is. wake up for real
WOW…..no other words. Seriously.
@Senorita
How is this a “good cause”? If the Obamas actually wanted to alleviate the pain felt by the “American troops”, they would do what their campaign promised to do, which is stop the wars. That is an impossibility because the only way that America can continue is to take over these different countries and take their natural resources.
@ Judah. You are right about that. People need to wake up and see what’s really going on around them.
Just Beautiful
They look great. Of course there already are the viced, one-track-minded wack commenters already on board here trifling. BTW, Rihanna looked beautiful and sang amazing last night on American Idol.
Michelle looks GREAT!..pretty lady
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WOW….seriously?
they both look beautiful…
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Beautiful cover of both ladies. Glad they are doing positive things to help military families.
There is only 1 First Lady of the United States. She’s black, so deal with it. America can’t take the fact that we have an African-American First Lady so they try to make her half a first lady with a Caucasian woman!
Yeah, you’re so right. Whites are battling major insecurities at this point, they just can’t take it but they better lmao
@JUDAH
What’s your point? It’s like saying a whole lot but not saying much at all.
Miss if you can’t get it, then it’s not meant for you to get lol. America is falling and simple negroes like yourself are still ranting about how there’s a black person in the “White House”. Who gives a damn? This country has an employment rate of 45%, it is fighting wars on about 10 different fronts, and the economic and educational systems are in shambles, but that’s ok because an alleged black man is commanding the sinking ship lol.
@JUDAH
Why are you calling me a negro? I’m not a negro, save this type of talk for when you are speaking to one of your American sistah’s of African decent.
Oh Micaela, Judah is the blog version of the rambling village idiot. He assumes incorrect info about people all the time and creates serious theories about people on those incorrect assumptions. Pay him no mind whatsoever dear.
@Michaela:
Haha, I know right? If CL posted a random photo of some baby in a crib, I bet you $5 this idiot is gonna dissect it to shreds from what color onesie the baby is wearing to how butterflies on the sheets resemble monarch shit.
Mr. Thing, you sound very unhappy.
@MICHAELA
All those things that I stated and your only response was in regards to whether or not you’re a negro lol? I guess people will respond to the only question that they’re intelligent enough to answer, especially if they’re an empty vessel. I don’t have any “sisters of African descent”, so I guess we’re even.
@CLASSY
Miss, if I’m an idiot what does that make you, because you follow my commentary around from thread to thread like a crack addict lmao? Then you have the nerve to tell someone to “pay him no mind”, when you can’t stop paying me attention yourself lol. I guess you want to be the only one to make asinine comments towards me. Whatever I deduced about you must really have affected you because you’re still obsessing about it. Some of you people are too much lol…
@LEANN
You should save that $5 for your GED program miss.
Wow….
I’m getting so annoyed having to read…
“Its” repeated attacks on articles and the people in them
“Its” repeat attacks on individuals who comment on the post in “positive” ways
“Its” repeat avoidance of any statement that questions or disproves the foolery ‘it’ spends so much time trying to force on people (while also trying to rip apart the character of these people whom ‘its’ never met before)
“Its” outrageous belief that any and everyone on this site who questions his “facts/valid points/arguments” is a “negro” (someone pointed that out and of course ‘it’ resorted to attacking character; like a immature child would do) instead of owning up to the fact that it was an ignorant statement to make (did I say ignorant?? The word ‘it’ tries to use on everyone ‘it’ feels the need to attack??)
“It,” Here are my questions for you…
1. What is your race and nationality?
2. If all black men and women are scum, worthless, and ignorant (among other things you’ve said), (assuming you are black, something you “seem” to know a lot about) wouldn’t that make your mother and father scum, worthless, and ignorant negros? (again “assuming” you are black)
3. Where do you get your “valid” information from. Internet, books, newspaper, radio….etc??
4. Why the hell do you come on this site??? You NEVER have anything positive to say about ANYTHING on here. That’s like eating at a restaurant every day, and you hate the food, but you just sit there eating and complaining about it the whole time you are there.
*To self* (I wonder if I will get “answers” to my questions or will I get random “facts/figures” thrown my way (about things I didn’t ask about) accompanied by verbal attacks about my character/family/friends/acquaintances from someone who wouldn’t be able to pick me out in a random crowd? I wonder…..)
@INTRIGUED
The level of idiocy that you suffer from must be at an extreme level, because you started your comment making an asinine remark lol. Who stated that your dumb a$$ had to read my commentary? You seem extremely bitter miss lol. The only “it” would be the fetuses that you’ve probably aborted before their sex organs were formed. Your post is like a dam full of holes. I will only plug the biggest ones.
1) What do the terms “race” and “nationality” mean? Is “black” a race or a color? I hope that your head doesn’t explode from that question.
2) Hmm, now you’re lying. When have I used the terms “scum” or “worthless” in regards to so-called “black people” smdh & lol? I very rarely even use the word “ignorant”. Do you know what the word “testify” means miss, and it’s etymology? It comes from the Latin word “testis” which means both “witness” and “testicle”, because only a man can bear witness. Females tend to see what they want, and believe the lie that they concoct in their own minds based on an inherent inability to understand because you lead with your emotions. Your comment based on the lie you concocted exhibited why a female cannot testify.
3)I get my information from a source that you will never tap, that being the Most High. I get information from above, you get yours from beneath, as you are a child of Satan lol. This is why you’re so confused, bemused, and obtuse.
4)I come on this site in hopes that people like you will destroy yourselves after reading my comments. Then I will leave lol. The real question that you should be asking yourself is why do you read my comments if they enrage you? In all seriousness miss, you are clearly a piece of trash. Respect begets respect, and you clearly have questions that you want me to answer, but your approach is all wrong. I do not have to attack your “character”. Your stupidity speaks for itself. If and when you black women (oh let me guess, you’re not “black” either lol) learn how to speak to a man, you will get the respect that you believe you deserve. If you bark at me, you will get treated like the dog that you are.
You have yet to identify your race: (has no absolute definition and is socially used to describe the color of an individual ‘black’ ‘white’ …) or nationality (I believe this is belonging to a particular nation ‘American’ ‘European’ …..) but you don’t have to answer if don’t want to or are ashamed (just curious because you seem too talk down about all people, maybe you’re not human? *that last remark was sarcastic*)
You may not have used those EXACT words, but the vocabulary that was used can be compiled into the terms scum or worthless (and you use the word ignorant or a synonym of it in most of the post I’ve read)
‘most high source’ doesn’t answer my question either; because if you are trying to, in some way, make the case you get all of this hatred and negativity you preach from the Lord above is an ASININE comment
So let me get this right. You take all the information you learn from your ‘most high’ source then bring it to this small site to try and use it so that afterwards they destroy them self? Wouldn’t it make more sense to “blow your hot air statements” on “news” sties (CNN, Fox, MSNBC….) where more people visit and issues that affect the world are talked about. Sorry to tell you this but none of these comments you make on THIS site is going to change anything in relation to your cause (I will assume you are trying to promote something; if you are not, you are wasting a whole lot of time on absolutely nothing). 99.9 (rounded) percent of people who read what you say are most likely laughing at or ignoring everything you say; or question how you create/form these thoughts in your ‘brain’
You must know more about myself than I do (ha…): apparently I had sex and was pregnant and aborted a fetus (I’m 100% sure that never happened) Apparently you know that I am a black female (I don’t remember saying that I was black or female; as far as you know I could be Bill Clinton or Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva) I worship satan? (That sounds more like you because unlike you I don’t go around spitting out negativity and hatred towards any group of people with the hopes that they destroy themselves; last time I checked wishing hurt or harm toward anyone was a sin. So you sound like the satan worshiper and you capitalized satan name as if he was of some importance sounds like you are the one worshiping it not me)
Ah you did answer a question you are a ‘man’ (I’ll assume you a flaming homosexual since you hate women so much)
The last time I checked dogs couldn’t type on computer nor can they read or argue statements made on websites so try again with a new insult (I still won’t care).
And I don’t FOLLOW your post I just find it hard to read peoples thoughts and feeling about the actual article because someone’s opinion is always follow up by YOU and the same statement flipped around different ways with similar words used differently. So, I don’t FOLLOW what you say; it’s, unfortunately, unavoidable….
A Nice Positive Story, About Helping Our Troops And Their Families! Beautiful Cover Of Both Ladies!
michelle obama is an INSPIRATION
Michelle looks like she could diplomatically eat off Jills face~
Love the Cover. Both Mrs Obama and Dr. Biden are championing great causes together and separately. They are both very inspirational women.
That cover is the funniest joke to me.
It’s a joke to the people in the army, to the people who have been ordered to go to war because the “peace loving” UN AND the PEACE of Change, or the change of peace man falls so fcuking short.
LOL, who fcuing KNEW???
First of all, for all the people hollering about war, deal with it. War is a necessary tool in the international system and sometimes your interests cannot be protected without it. And if American did not do it, who would –
R u in the Armed Forces? Or military family? It’s hard to say deal with when your loved ones r dying?
Yes, in the system of the Beast war is fundamental, and your co-signing of it shows that you are a beast yourself. Your comment shows why so many people will accept that RFID chip when the time comes. You are incorrect in at least one aspect though. When you speak about “interests”, that denotes ownership. America does not go to war to protect what it owns, it goes to war to take what others own. The “war on terror” was a pretext to justify the crusade to destroy Islam (which is fundamentally anti-New World Order) and to reap the region known as the Middle East which is rich in natural resources. America is not even the name of this land. It’s official name is the “Corporation of Homeland Security”. These American “soldiers” are property of the corporation, not even recognized as flesh and blood entities with souls according to the laws of this land. This whole thing is a facade.
I love everything about Michelle. She’s a shining example of how glorious, beautiful, heartfelt and intelligent so many black women are. She makes me feel so proud and uplifted!
“She’s a shining example of how glorious, beautiful, heartfelt and intelligent so many black women are.”
She’s rather an exception…
She’s an exceptional woman all-around. Race notwithstanding really, but there are many similarly wonderful black women out there. It’s awesome.
@CLASSY!
I’m sure that you do, because she is your god lol. You obviously have self-esteem issues. This is why many people cannot wrap their minds around premises like mind-control, because they are already under mind control themselves. Females like Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey are set up as paragons and idols for black women to aspire to in order to cause confusion within the black woman, and the black community at large. Michelle Obama is a pawn of the elite and an agent of the British crown. She is a member of a cabal of high profile mind-controlled women known as the 12 Crown Agent sisters. That will go over your head lol.
@Judah,
Anyone that can take a simple compliment given to another human being and view it as some kind of confirmation for an almost completely unfounded conspiracy theory is a nutcase. Me thinking Michelle is a good woman in no way indicates that she is a god to me or that I have esteem issues. I’ll let you in on a secret that most people usually figure out on their own: women who say nice things about other women are usually secure with healthy self-esteem; women who make negative comments about other women are usually the ones down on themselves. Judah, get some help luv.
@CLASSY!
You didn’t state that she was a “good woman”, and even if you had stated that, that would’ve been hyperbole. You stated that you “love everything about her” lol, which implies that you believe that you know her, which is indicative of idolatry. You do not know this female, and I’m sure you’ve never met her, so your perception of her is based on an image that was concocted exactly for simpletons like you. You stated that she is a “shining example”. To “shine” is an attribute given to god-like entities. A human being cannot “uplift” you, you idiot. Only the Most High can, so she must be your god. A person with low self-esteem needs to be “uplifted”. It’s a common practice for black people, particularly black females, to mistake and replace bravado for confidence and self-esteem. I’ve used your words, not mine. I don’t think that you’re aware of how much you expose yourself through your words. Are you one of those chics that gets strung out on anti-depressants lol?
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