Fist Lady Michelle Obama greeting the crowd after her husband delivered a speech in front of the castle in Prague, Czech Republic, on Sunday. (Photo by Herbert Knosowski / AP)
by Mark Silva
Not only President Barack Obama, but also First Lady Michelle Obama has contributed to promoting a "more positive" view of the United States abroad during their weeklong tour of Europe, most Americans tell pollsters.
That view is held among 80 percent of those surveyed -- 30 percent saying the first lady has fostered a "much more positive'' view of the U.S. among her foreign audience, and 50 percent saying "somehwat more positive'' in a CNN and Opinion Research Poll.
The survey, the same one run April 3-5 on questions of perceptions about the president's trip from London to Strasbourg to Prague to Ankara and Istanbul ending today, found roughly the same views of the first lady's contribution to the trip as the president's contributions -- about 80 percent for each on the positive impression count.
The first lady already has returned from Europe, with the president preparing to leave Istanbul today after another "town hall'' styled meeting with students there.
The CNN/Opinion Research survey of 1,023 adults carries a possible 3 percentage point margin of error. It also was conducted before the trip was finished.
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Is there a political role for Michelle in the cards? Senator from Illinois? President?
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Posted by: matt | April 7, 2009 7:47 AM
What I found most interesting were two things - the reaction of people to the Hug of the Queen, and the reaction of fashion followers to Mitchell's Bow Tie dress. We must be careful to balance between Michelle the person and Michelle as another Lady Di. Fashion sells and Michelle's fashion sense is very strong - she occasionally sends hidden messages at times with her dressing. People need to learn to decode Michelle. In the Bow-Tie outfit, Michelle says: I am just your humble maid servant, please accept me for my humility. But it made a loud reverberation similar to what Rush Limbaurg said about his own personality - Me complicated? You could wrap me in a Bow Tie. Michelle is the complex one. I enjoy her codes. When I watched the video of her embracing the Queen, i just wished it was me. The two women deserve love and respect. One shaped the tone fot the G20 meeting as chief hostess, the other glided in grace around European capitals as special guest. The G20 meeting has produced fantastic esteem for America and is the turning point we need for the global economic recovery.
Posted by: webnet usanga | April 7, 2009 2:12 PM
She has an aversion to politics and does not particularly enjoy the sniping. Don't count on her tunning for anything.
Posted by: Bill Boudreaux | April 7, 2009 10:48 PM
She has an aversion to politics and does not particularly enjoy the sniping. Don't count on her tunning for anything.
Posted by: Bill Boudreaux | April 8, 2009 10:15 AM