Dear Michelle,
You follow many other presidential wives in having a high calling of work on behalf of your own initiatives in nutrition, promotion of personal health activities and much more. White house organic gardens, efforts on behalf of military families and veterans and so many more works are an inspiration. All these and more demonstrate your most admirable intellectual and moral traits.
But when I see you with Sasha and Malia, flanking Barack, I am most grateful. Being president is a stressful job, I am grateful that you and Barack are willing to take it for another four years. But doing that while raising a healthy family requires a dedication that is rare today. Doing it under constant scrutiny of the media, with a hundred pair of eyes searching for any weakness; that is beyond dedication, it also demonstrates amazing personal skill and resourcefulness. You, Barack, Sasha and Malia are a great inspiration for families around the world. Your evident mutual love shines as proof that it can be done even in trying circumstances.
Of course, your sense of the personal aesthetic in dress and demeanor are complimented by your physical beauty. While they would not bring my admiration by themselves, they, combined with all the above have made me fall entranced with you and with your children. No husband or children could more appropriately consider their wife or mother as gorgeous and beautiful and in so many ways.
Barack has long since acquired my admiration and loyalty. That does not mean my automatic approval. I think he has made some terrible decisions about not recognizing Republican intransigence earlier and putting on his steel gloves; about his personnel choices like Geithner and Rahm Emmanuel; following a very conservative economic strategy; walking away from the public option in health care. But even so, he has accomplished far more than any president in recent history against a blockade of Republican, and "Know Nothing" racist Birther, and Tea Party opposition.
I do hope that in his second term Barack will look more to Robert Reich, Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz and Bernie Sanders for aid, ideas and advice.
Another four years. As Yoda says, "Do or not do. There is no try!"
Love,
David
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