# People who adore Michelle Obama, what is your motivation

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 13, 2017, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-adore-michelle-obama-what-is-your-motivation/788832 "2017-06-13T03:11:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-adore-michelle-obama-what-is-your-motivation/788832/81 "2017-06-16T20:58:53Z")

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> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> I did not vote for Obama either time, though I respect him a lot and do think he ended up being an excellent President, one of the best of the last 50 years. I thought Michelle Obama was a great first lady, too.
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> I like most of the first ladies, though. I mean…they have to put up with being married to the President. It is not easy.

But you have to wonder why Betty Ford wound up on drugs and not Pat Nixon.

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-adore-michelle-obama-what-is-your-motivation/788832/82 "2017-06-16T21:16:23Z")

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> [@running\_coach](#):
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> But you have to wonder why Betty Ford wound up on drugs and not Pat Nixon.

Are we positive Pat Nixon wasn’t on drugs?

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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-adore-michelle-obama-what-is-your-motivation/788832/83 "2017-06-16T22:54:33Z")

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> [@you\_with\_the\_face](#):
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> I decided at the age of 10 that I hated Michael Dukakis because he talked too long at the DNC, which resulted in me and the rest of the chorus from my elementary school getting bumped off the program.
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> Such is the way of kids.

Heh, my first memory of Bill Clinton was when he was giving the address at a DNC event and the only time in his long-winded speech he got applause was when he started a paragraph “and so, in conclusion…”. Ironically, I wouldn’t have remembered him later in 1992 had it not been for that misstep.

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