Michelle Makes It Memorable

If you ask me what stands out on the first day of President Barack Obama's stay in India, which he spent in Mumbai, I would say without hesitation, the spontaneity, grace and natural (not cultivated) charm of his wife Michelle.

Pictures of her visiting university students and chatting, smiling, laughing, singing and dancing with the them have captivated Indian audiencces right across the country. Wherever she went--whether  with the President or on her own -- she imparted a charm of her own to the event, thereby making the visit memorable.

We should thank Obama for bringing her to India. None of his five predecessors who visited India brought their wives.

I was curious. Did he take her to China last year? How did the Chinese react to her? How did she react to the Chinese? Did she feel as comfortable with the Chinese as she has been with Indians?

She didn't accompany her husband to China. I did a Google search to find out why she didn't go to China and what the Chinese thought of her. I found in an NBC blog  an interesting  article written on November 17,2009, by Adrienne Mong, the NBC's news correspondent.