Michelle Obama Organizes Woman to Woman Talk and Attends Fundraiser for Hubby in Mission Hills

On the heels of her husband’s visit to Independence last week,

Michelle Obama dropped by Kansas City on Thursday, July 10 2008 to attend a fund-raiser.

She’ll was at the Mission Hills, Kansas home of Grant and Amy Davis. The cost: $1,000 a head.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Michelle Obama said if her husband is elected president, he’ll try and improve things for American families who are facing tough times.

The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Kansas City on Thursday. She attended a fundraiser and hosted an economic roundtable discussion at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

KMBC’s Micheal Mahoney reported that Obama told a crowd of about 300 that American families are struggling to keep it together in tough economic times. Obama heard stories of single-parent families struggling with balancing the demands at home and making ends meet.

A panel of various women from different backgrounds participated in the woman to woman roundtable discussion. 

The main subjects they raised were the high cost of health insurance, college loans, gasoline prices and providing adequate education for children.

Obama said she had heard similar stories across the country.

“These are working folks, many with jobs we would all covet, college education, good trade jobs,” Obama said. “This is sort of the state of things for people who are working, with no clear emergency going on … We have to begin to recognize the crunch we’re putting people in.”

She said the nation could address problems such as public education, child care and universal health insurance if “we were not spending billions on a war that never should have been authorized.”

Obama acknowledged that she and her husband are more fortunate than many people but she said they understood the difficulties of balancing work and family. Of her many roles, she said, the most important is being mother to two daughters.

“For me, policies that promote women and families, it’s not just about politics, this stuff is personal,” she told the crowd. “These are the issues that I have mulled around in my head my entire life.”

Obama assured the audience that her husband would promote family friendly policies if he is elected. For example, she said, he supports universal health care, programs to defray the cost of a college education, investing billions in public education and ensuring that women are paid the same as men for similar work.

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