{"id":6695,"date":"2009-10-01T07:21:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T07:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/10\/michelle-obama-as-much-of-a-sa.html"},"modified":"2009-10-01T07:21:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T07:21:53","slug":"michelle-obama-as-much-of-a-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/10\/michelle-obama-as-much-of-a-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama: &#8220;As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Um&#8230;who is saying that? Have the lefty bloggers been complaining that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/Michelle-Obama-Its-a-sacrifice-to-travel-to-Europe-to-pitch-for-the-Olympics--For-Oprah-and-the-president-too--But-were-doing-it-for-the-kids-62928957.html\">Michelle Obama has to make such a sacrifice as traveling to Copenhagen<\/a>? Maybe it&#8217;s her support staff? I know righty bloggers have been complaining about the president leaving in the middle of the crisis with Iran but I haven&#8217;t heard of anyone complaining that it was a &#8220;sacrifice:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In her speech in Copenhagen today, First Lady Michelle Obama said her trip to Denmark, along with the travel of her &#8220;dear friend&#8221; and &#8220;chit-chat buddy&#8221; Oprah Winfrey, as well as tomorrow&#8217;s visit by President Obama, is a &#8220;sacrifice&#8221; on behalf of the children of Chicago and the United States. &#8220;As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days,&#8221; the first lady told a crowd of people involved in the Chicago project, &#8220;so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/30\/michelle-obama-i-know-people-say-it-was-a-sacrifice-for-me-and-oprah-to-go-to-copenhagen\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um&#8230;who is saying that? Have the lefty bloggers been complaining that Michelle Obama has to make such a sacrifice as traveling to Copenhagen? Maybe it&#8217;s her support staff? I know righty bloggers have been complaining about the president leaving in the middle of the crisis with Iran but I haven&#8217;t heard of anyone complaining that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Michelle Obama: &quot;As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/10\/michelle-obama-as-much-of-a-sa.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Michelle Obama: &quot;As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me&quot; - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Um&#8230;who is saying that? 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