WASHINGTON (June 5) - For all the smiling photos of Barack and Michelle Obama, the couple went through a tough time in their marriage in earlier years, according to a new book."Renegade," by journalist Richard Wolffe, says the couple's marriage was strained by Barack Obama's unsuccessful 2000 run for Congress. Wolffe writes that Michelle Obama "hated the failed race for Congress in 2000, and their marriage was strained by the time their youngest daughter, Sasha, was born a year later."Skip over this content
Obama's Ascent to Power
In just eight years, Barack Obama rocketed from a failed congressional aspirant to the first African-American candidate to win the White House. Here, the president and first lady Michelle Obama walk out of St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington on Jan. 20, the day of his inauguration.
"There was little conversation and even less romance," Wolffe writes. "She was angry at his selfishness and careerism; he thought she was cold and ungrateful."When Obama ran for the Senate in 2004, his wife still had mixed feelings about her husband's love of politics, and played no part in the campaign, the book says.
By the time Obama decided to run for president, the couple's two children were older and Michelle Obama was more supportive.
Okay I know we all love our Obama's but I'm sorry is this really any of our business; I mean who cares about their love life ....and I should also make a point to say that they only made it clear that the "Obama's " are not super hero's and that their marriage has problems like any marriage. In alot of ways this is sooo not news however, it serves the point that they are only human....just like you and me!
HAPPY OBAMA DAYS!!!
