Obamas, Bidens at Women's Conference

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Barack, Michelle, and Jill and Joe Biden spoke to the http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/michelle-obama-oprah-biden-address-chicago-womens-conference_100105987.html">National Women’s Leadership Issues Conference this past week-end in Chicago. Women will be critical in this year’s election and were encouraged by Michelle to "Talk to your friends and your neighbors and your colleagues. Sit down with your mothers and your fathers and your sisters and your girlfriends and tell them about the issues at stake in this election."

Then she took a few minutes at Blogher to add some personal thoughts about the conference and the struggles women face every day…

“..The conference was terrific—productive, powerful, and filled with a sense of shared purpose. I was just blown away by the energy and the excitement from the crowd. But I was also impressed for a different reason. As I looked around the room, I thought to myself, “How did this sea of women—with everything we have going on in our lives—all manage to be here?”

I thought about all the planning it took for these women to get here—the minor miracles they each had to perform to get away from their daily routines of work and kids and life, and spend a few days in Chicago. All the meetings that had to be rescheduled, the errands that were postponed, the appointments that were reshuffled… just so these women could come together to talk about the issues at stake in all of our lives.

No matter where we live—no matter our race, our socioeconomic background, or our political party—we women wear many hats. We’re daughters and sisters and moms. We’re professionals and students. We run errands and do laundry and shop for groceries. And to get it all done, we have another skill that we rely on. We’re jugglers.

I know that every other mommyblogger out there knows exactly what I’m talking about. ..”

http://www.blogher.com/our-many-hats">More From Michelle

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1. kick, for the day crowd n/t