President-Elect Barack Obama, along with his wife Michelle, sat down with 60 Minutes for his first interview since winning the election. I just happened to notice the buzz about it on Twitter, otherwise I would have missed it.

Some may consider it fluff, but I thought it was a good chance to see them after the campaigning is done. They seemed relaxed there are touches of humor.

I was able to find parts of it in case you missed it. The color is a bit odd, but it’s the video I found.

UPDATE: If the video is no longer available on You Tube, you can view it on CBSNews.com.

The Democratic National Convention finally go started in Denver. It really must be cool to attend such a historic event. I’m almost envious of a few of my colleagues (journalists) who are attending. Sure they are working; nonetheless, it still must be exciting.

Since I could not be there in person, decided to watch the keynote address by Michelle Obama on television—because I must prepared for the “office discussion” tomorrow. I think she did a great job—very comfortable, cool, calm and collected in front that crowd of millions.  I liked the video that they put together about her life. It really made her “real.” And I noticed some tears in the audience when she spoke about the day they brought their 10-year-old daughter home from the hospital.

Transcript excerpt
[…] And in the end, And in the end after all that’s happened these past 19 months, the Barack Obama I know today is the same man I fell in love with 19 years ago. He’s the same man who drove me and our new baby daughter home from the hospital ten years ago this summer, inching along at a snail’s pace, peering anxiously at us in the rearview mirror, feeling the whole weight of her future in his hands, determined to give her everything he’d struggled so hard for himself, determined to give her something he never had: the affirming embrace of a father’s love. [...]

And as I tuck that little girl in and her little sister into bed at night, You see I think about how one day, they’ll have families of their own. And one day, they — and your sons and daughters — will tell their own children about what we did together in this election. They’ll tell them how this time, we listened to our hopes, instead of our fears. How this time, how this time, we decided to stop doubting and to start dreaming. How this time, in this great country — where a girl from the South Side of Chicago can go to college and law school, and the son of a single mother from Hawaii can go all the way to the White House — that we committed ourselves, we committed ourselves to building the world as it should be.

I had to get a pen and write down the quote, “…this time, we listened to our hopes, instead of our fears.” For the last 8 years this country has been operating of fear. The Bush administration has “ruled” using lies and fear. And if you didn’t agree with them, they labeled you unpatriotic and a supporter of terrorism. It’s time for this country to move out of the shadow of fear, and get back to hope.

If you still need more Michelle Obama, Time has an article, Michelle Obama’s Savvy Sacrifice, posted online.

According to an ABC News poll, Michelle Obama has a more favorable rating than Cindy McCain. I find that to be very interesting since there is so much negative spin out there about her or things that she is accused of saying.

It seems the Obama camp is on a mission to give Michelle a new image. I was reading an article at NYTimes.com today where they talked about the new image she will be taking on. It was also a very informative article that speaks about she personality and this image change. Now a days, no one on the campaign trail is off limits, so there will be a lot of eyes on Michelle Obama. According to a brief excerpt:

Rather than pulling Mrs. Obama behind a curtain, her husband’s campaign is pushing her farther out on stage. She remains a charismatic presence, and when she gives her husband a fist dap or talks of him as a father, she is telling voters, this is a regular guy. This South Side woman anchors him in her reality.

In coming weeks, Mrs. Obama will visit the spouses of military personnel and talk of the patriotic duty to provide these families with care and services. And the campaign has hired Stephanie Cutter, a veteran strategist, as her chief of staff, who will seek to deflect attacks.

Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, a close ally of the Obama campaign, says Mrs. Obama must stop sounding like a lawyer trying to win an argument. The trick, she said, is “not pushing so hard to persuade people that Barack is the right one.”

“All she has to do is be likable,” Mrs. McCaskill said.

Mrs. Obama has already had to check her brutally honest approach to talking about race. Now she co-stars in a campaign that would as soon mute most discussion of race.”

Source: abcnews.com, nytimes.com