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Wholesome, intimate and suspiciously vague: The Michelle Obama Podcast reviewed

Michelle and Barack‘s admiration for each other feels real and clear – or at least brilliantly faked

Michelle Obama talks so much about ‘becoming we’ and ‘we-ness’ that it's quite easy to forget that mostly she is just talking about herself. Photo: Nathan Congleton / NBCU Photo Bank / Getty Images 
issue 22 August 2020

Back in March, I made a long-odds bet that Michelle Obama would be the Democratic party’s vice-presidential nominee. I knew that in her memoir, Becoming, she had said that she wasn’t interested in high office. But political candidates always claim they aren’t running — until suddenly they are.

Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, had already said he’d take Michelle as his VP ‘in a heartbeat’, which struck me as funny since, if Biden’s heart stopped beating, his VP would become commander-in-chief.

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