Supposedly, Michelle Obama is here in the Florida Panhandle at the moment, giving an address only a few miles away. At least that's what I've heard—I wasn't invited to listen to her speak.
The first lady has made it her mission to serve military families. Every first lady has had her pet project: Laura Bush was passionate about education and women's issues; as first lady, Hillary Clinton advocated for health care reform (and she's still working on that one).
I'm interested to see what First Lady Michelle Obama will do for our military families. So far I haven't felt the effects of her good will, but I'd sure give her a $1.4 million award for good intentions.
Seriously, though, I do want to hear how she plans to offer more support to families of servicemen and women. I appreciate her recognition that military families shoulder a lot of burdens, with changing family structures (when parents deploy) as well as financial hardships. I'm not exactly sure how she'll be able to remedy either of those situations, since her husband has approved sending more troops to the Middle East and appears to have completely drained our government of funds for many generations to come.
Maybe you could work on military health care, Mrs. Obama—ours is already run by the government.
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