A second act for first lady

IN October, US first lady Michelle Obama said she wasn’t thinking about what she might do in the future.

A second act for first lady

“I’m just looking ahead to getting Barack back in office and continuing the work he’s been doing,” she said. “Supporting him is my focus.”

But others think the first lady, who had spent the previous four years seeking to better the lives of military families and fighting to end childhood obesity, before becoming one of the stars of her husband’s re-election effort, might have bigger things ahead of her, if she so chooses. “Michelle is Superwoman. What can’t she do?” actor Samuel L Jackson recently told Newsweek. “That’s why people love her. She can be on the Supreme Court and anywhere else she wants. She can be the president. She’s history and she’ll stay history, because she is so amazingly smart and together.”

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