Mrs. Obama sees campaign role as wife
WAUKEE, Iowa - Who is Sen. Barack Obama’s closest adviser? Not his wife, says Michelle Obama. “We have very separate professional relationships, which is, I think, healthy,” Michelle Obama said Monday during her fourth visit to Iowa to campaign for her husband’s bid for the Democratic nomination for president.
“There is so much work we need to do as a family and as a couple. We talk about our work, we talk about what we do, but he makes his decisions on his own and I try to be supportive,” she said.
Democratic candidate John Edwards and Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani are among the White House hopefuls who have described their wives as close advisers. Asked if she considered herself her husband’s chief adviser, Michelle Obama replied, “No, I consider myself his wife.”
