
Super Soul Special: First Lady Michelle Obama Says Farewell to The White House
Oprah's Super Soul
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The Importance of Honesty in Politics
I was scheduled to go out on the stump right after this was happening. To have a candidate for the presidency speaking in such terms about women, as I said, it was not a normal thing. My response required a different kind of response. You can't just stand before people and just give a regular political speech. We could feel that you had been shaken to your core. They are still feeling the reverberations of that kind of caustic language. That's something that Barack and I have always tried to be in this office is honest. so that people feel like when we say something, we do mean it.
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