An Oprah Winfrey special titled First Lady Michelle Obama Says Farewell to the White House was aired on CBS last Monday, December 19, 2016. In it, Oprah asks the first lady if she felt her husband, President Obama, had achieved that concept of hope for the American people that he represented when they first ran nine years ago. She responded unequivocally, “Yes, because we feel the difference now. Now we’re feeling what not having hope feels like.
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I just heard on TV that there’s not expected to be a ban on the use of assault weapons or the number of rounds allowed to be used in a magazine clip this year, the news coming just after learning that our first lady, Michelle Obama, had attended the funeral of Hadiya Pendleton, who sang at the presidential Inauguration, and who was shot and killed in a gang-related gun violence in a park close to the Obamas’ home on Chicago’s South Side.
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