Michelle Obama Asks Maid to Summarize President's
Speech in Ten Seconds
Washington - Sensing her husband's arrival was imminent,
Michelle Obama Tuesday night asked a White House maid to quickly summarize a
speech made by the President earlier in the evening, Underneath Politics has
learned. "Did you watch it," Mrs. Obama anxiously asked Carla, a housekeeper
the First Lady occasionally acknowledges in passing. "Yes, Maim. Your husband
gave a wonderful talk. He speaks with the elegance of a noble..." "Yeah, yeah, yeah,"
Mrs. Obama responded. "Sum up the speech pronto - ten seconds max and I started
counting at, 'sum.'" After taking a quick breath, the maid began. "Well, he
said that our effort in Afghanistan
was important to our long-term stability as a na..." After gritting her teeth and
aggressively sticking out her hand in a gesture meant to say, "stop," Mrs.
Obama reminded Carla to make it quick. "Okay, deploying 30,000 more troops in
January," Carla said. "He'll start bringing our soldiers home in 18-months.
This war not another Vietnam
because we were attacked." With a nod, Mrs. Obama acknowledged that she had all
the information she required in order to adequately praise her husband later on
in the evening should the need arise.
