President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle during a surprise visit to St. Columbanus Catholic School on the South Side of Chicago, Illinios, November 26, 2008.
The Black Snob points us to a 1996 interview with Barack and Michelle Obama.
The interview was published in French but you can go here to read parts of it re-translated back into English.
Conducted the year President-elect Obama ran for and won his Illinois state senate seat, the interview was for a book on American marriages but was never published until January 11, 2009 when it appeared in Le Monde.
What’s important is empathy, an understanding of shared responsibilities, the ability to put yourself in other people’s shoes. (Barack Obama, 1996)
