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April 14, 2008 by atlmalcontent

For some insight into Michelle Obama’s worldview, check out what her Princeton roomie had to say about their shared experience. Great work by Brian Feagans.

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on April 14, 2008 at 9:20 pm atlpaddy

Wow, she was just like a young Peggy Mitchell. Except she was from Louisiana. And a lesbian.
on April 15, 2008 at 1:10 pm spaceyg

Yes, these few sentences alone left me breathless with wonder and awe, so poetic they were. Then again, it could be that those “long fingers” of appallingly overwritten, bad copy are just choking me.

You decide:

“Truth is, many paths to the future start with the past. Donnelly thought she’d left that Princeton dorm room for good. Then those long fingers from the campaign trail waved her back inside. At first, she saw only herself and two roommates.

Now she sees her children and Obama’s children waking up in those beds, in a room with no barriers.”
on April 15, 2008 at 8:08 pm atlmalcontent

Point made, though I think we’ve all been guilty of overwriting. Overall, I thought it was a well-written piece that contributed a rare honesty and insight into issues of race. Of course, he is part of the useless old media, so why bother?

Belittle away.
on April 16, 2008 at 4:20 pm Al Kosa

If you consider the prose “appallingly overwritten,” must you also tell us it is “bad?” As a stone thrower, spaceyg, you are repetitive and redundant.