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August 14th, 2008 at 8:53 am

Michelle Obama Radar Magazine Cover September 2008

Michelle Obama Radar Magazine cover September 2008

Aspiring First Lady Michelle Obama is on the September 2008 cover of Radar Magazine. The edgy pop culture magazine poses the question: “What’s So Scary About Michelle Obama?” and proceeds to give the reader “An Insider’s Guide to America’s Next First Lady.” The article is in the print edition, with an online teaser.

We know she’s opinionated, and we suspect we haven’t heard them all. She is fiercely public about being fiercely private. She is neither the shrewish lady in pantsuits (Hillary) nor the pretty, if also practical, accessory that generations of political wives have been.

And so the stacks of profiles and puff pieces about the striking would-be first lady have to make do with scraps of information about her diet, her health, and her favorite things, wrapping up the Michelle paradox in the comforting costume of celebrity.

So as a service we gathered and parsed the available information (and diligently footnoted our sources) to answer all the questions you may have about Michelle, but might be a little, you know, too scared to ask.

Source: Radar Online: What’s so scary about Michelle Obama?