“One of the things — the important aspects of this race — is role modeling what good families should look like. Our view was that, if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House.”
Speech Speech at a Women for Obama rally http://screens.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/if-you-cant-run-the-white-house/, Chicago (August 2007). (YouTube video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1qZMBE9Gc
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