To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (241022 ) 3/8/2008 1:55:25 AM From: KLP Respond to Here’s 3 bits of articles about Michelle Obama….first an article from the Chicago Sun Times (January 2007) that talks about Michelle’s parents….This sounds like it’s better than the one room walk up I saw earlier….. But still, I wouldn't think that many of the folks she is talking to in these gatherings are making anything like $900,000++ and complaining of how much it costs to give the kids some advantages....$10,000 a year for ballet, camp, whatever, for kids 9 and 6 might be a bit of a stretch for most families...suntimes.com "Long before there was a Barack Obama, there was a Michelle Robinson who was a star in her own right.'' theglobeandmail.com Born Michelle Robinson in 1964, she was raised on the south side of Chicago, in a poor, black neighbourhood where her family lived in a one-bedroom apartment. Her late father worked as a pump operator for the city water department, while her mother stayed home to look after Michelle and her older brother, Craig Robinson, now a professional basketball coach. barackobama.com Obama says she is grounded by her working-class upbringing on the South Side of Chicago, where her father, a Democratic precinct captain, kept track of the boilers for the city's water department until his death from complications of multiple sclerosis in 1990. Her mother stayed at home until Obama was in high school.
