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Occasionally, it gives campaign people heartburn. ... She’s fundamentally honest — goes out there, speaks her mind, jokes. She doesn’t parse her words or select them with an antenna for political correctness.
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David Axelrod, as quoted in "The Other Obama : Michelle Obama and the politics of candor" by Lauren Collins, in The New Yorker (10 March 2008)

 

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