The US First Lady has dismissed allegations that she had caused disputes with Barack Obama’s chief of staff and press secretary over his presidential agenda.
Michelle Obama has claimed that she has been wrongly portrayed as “some angry black woman” in a new book released this week.
The US First Lady has dismissed allegations that she had caused disputes with Barack Obama’s chief of staff and press secretary over his presidential agenda.
She said that while relations were harmonious between her and Mr Obama’s inner circle, which is commonly described as dysfunctional, it was “more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation”.
“That’s been an image that people have tried to paint of me since the day Barack announced,” the Telegraph quoted her as telling in an interview with CBS News.
“That I’m some angry black woman.”
In ‘The Obamas’, author Jodi Kantor has mentioned that Mrs Obama clashed with Rahm Emanuel, the then-White House chief of staff, over her husband’s overhaul of health care.
With Emanuel compelled to hysterically cut back-room deals to pass the landmark legislation through Congress in 2009, Mr Obama reportedly told aides that his wife “feels as if our rudder isn’t set right”.
Kantor, a New York Times reporter, has written that Emanuel reacted “with indignation” and let it be known to the media that he was unhappy with the way in which health care effort was being handled.
Robert Gibbs, Mr Obama’s then-press secretary, allegedly “cursed” Mrs Obama after she passed on criticisms of his response to reports, which said that she had told Carla Bruni, wife of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy that living in the White House was “hell”.
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