person in the sense of she looks at the good side of everything. she thinks if you dwell on the negative, you re distracted and off your game. so she takes criticism when it is valid. a lot of the criticism pointed toward president obama has not been valid. her thing is decide what is valid. what should i change and what is just right wing criticism. so i think that s the great part about michelle. she did understand what i need to change, what i can t change, and how ki make things the way they need to be for my family. you interviewed her and been around here, how is she do be around for a journalist. i have been around her in my civil rights roll and other rolls, show it for a journalist? she s like a sister friend, asking about your family, how your mom is, how is everybody, where are you from? just a genuine interest in your
turn into 100, could turn into 1,000. and they re very mindful after the occupy wall street about how something like this can grow very quickly and become a disruption. thomas? nbc s kerry sanders for us in san dord. thank you. president obama made national headlines when he spoke about the trayvon martin case weeks ago saying if he had a son, he would look like trayvon. how has america s first black president impacted this discussion of race and race relations in america? newsweek delves into the martin case and america s largest racial divide in an article titled is obama making it worse ? joining me this morning is the author of the book what would michelle do, ali solison samue. before the comment the president was criticized for not talking about martin s death and then after speaking, newt gingrich accused the president of making this all about race. i want to show everybody because news week poll found 78% of