Entertainment | 03/06/2009 2:50 pm

Michelle Obama Teaches Oprah to Share (Photo)

For the first time ever, Oprah has shared the cover of O magazine with another woman.

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Oprah Winfrey revealed on her eponymous show on Friday that another famous woman will grace the O magazine cover with her … Who is this woman? She must be important, for Oprah has never shared the cover image with anyone else in the publication’s nine years. Why, the gorgeous gal is none other than glamorous First Lady Michelle Obama!

In the edition, Mrs. Obama opens up to Oprah about being mom-in-chief to Sasha and Malia, decorating tips and feeling "fortunate" for where she wakes up every morning.

An excerpt of the upcoming cover interview is available on Oprah.com.

Oprah: So after the Inauguration, what was your first weekend in the White House like?

Michelle Obama: Well, we still had family here, so it was almost like a wedding. A huge, very complicated wedding. The last visitors didn’t leave until Sunday. And then the first Monday was kind of weird. You know: Now we live here, and Barack is getting up and going to work, and it’s just us. This is our home now.

Oprah: I had heart palpitations coming through the White House gate, recognizing that this really is now your home. It’s the White House, and it’s your home.

Michelle Obama: And it’s a beautiful home. When you go out and come back, especially at night, with all the white lights on — it’s just beautiful. We feel privileged, and we feel a responsibility to make it feel like the people’s house. We have the good fortune of being able to sleep here, but this house belongs to America.

The April issue hits newsstands March 17.

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I can’t wait to read the full article. I love hearing Michelle’s insights on the most mundane of subjects to the more complex and involved. Coupled with the fact that Oprah is the interviewer…..well, you just know it will be a good read! :-)

By Belinda Joy on 03/06/2009 3:09 pm

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come on now are you really surprised look at the brownie points she’ making…

By Sharon Jones on 03/06/2009 5:11 pm

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Don’t watch ow and don’t buy her mag….I don’t care for her so not interested….jmo

By Libra Lady on 03/06/2009 8:33 pm

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Never bought her mag, flipped through it and didn’t want to spend so much $$$$ on it. Who needs to spend money to listen to liberal rhetoric?

By Queenie . on 03/06/2009 8:49 pm

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I never read her magazine but from the little I’ve seen of it in waiting rooms, it’s not a political magazine… so, don’t worry! Go ahead and read it, you are perfectly safe from having your mind opened. You’ll probably mostly only risk being exposed to diets, fashion and recipes.

By DeBúrca obj on 03/07/2009 12:14 pm

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I am a little confused. I recognise most of the names of the above posters. I am pretty sure y’all tend to be on the conservative side. Is not one of the pillars of conservatism Christianity? I have seldom seen less Christ like behavior in the posts. The above posts about something as silly as the outside of these two powerful and generous women are the usual hypocrisy of conservative "Christians".

By Lou Hoover on 03/06/2009 9:45 pm

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Lou, one of the pillars of what passes for ‘conservatism’ (little ‘c’) today is fake ‘christianity’ (little ‘c’). This is the christianity of little minds, christianity used to put down others, justify bad behavior, an attempt to control the lives of other people. The ‘conservatism’ is just a bunch of people brainwashed to vote against their best interests for the interests of the top 2% who they will never be. It’s the conservatism of sheep, the haters, the don’t want to pay taxes bunch who wouldn’t turn the fireman or policeman away… but calls a government that works for the PEOPLE as opposed to just the Corporations…. Socialism.

It is is twisted version of conservatism married to a twisted version of christianity.

By DeBúrca obj on 03/07/2009 8:28 am

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DeBurca, your above comments are the most powerful description of conservative christianity I have ever read. Thank you so much. Sometimes I get "brain freeze" from reading the ice cold words of hatred these people spew. I have mostly left wOw because the wingnuts have taken over. You have kept up the good fight. I am proud to have become acquainted with you, here.

By Dab-a- do on 03/07/2009 4:02 pm

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DeBurca

Our government is making moves to get the tax cheaters money out of Switzerland, much to the chagrin of the Swiss, so hopefully, many tax cheats will be caught up with. But what are we going to do about the ones in the Obama administraton that believe they are above the law and don’t have to pay taxes? I agree, the tax code should be re-written, make it more fair for everyone. Right now the lower 40% of the population pay very little federal income taxes. The upper 5% pay close to 40% of the taxes in the US. The way it would change would be 50% of the people in our country would not have to pay income tax, yet still, even if we raise the taxes on the upper 2%, it will not pay for all of these programs, nor do that much to lower the deficit. Once the deficit gets going, just the interest, which accrues to more debt, will keep this country in hock for a long time.

We are not a country that builds and manufactures like we did after WW2, we invest more in paper and ideas, so now there is a vast deficit of jobs that can support a family and create wealth for them. To me, more than infrastructure jobs have to be created by businesses, that build things that we export to other markets. In other words, the 2% of top income earners will not be able to support the bottom 50% of earners. I know something has to be done, but I don’t think we have hit on the right answer yet.

By Frannie Em on 03/07/2009 5:03 pm

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DeBurca, I’ve been in the Florida Keys for two months without good access to the Internet. I was stunned by the insults aimed at Oprah and Michelle when I read the responses to this article. Thank you for continuing to speak for civilization. Maybe all these mean spirited women are all just Rush L. in disguise.

By Murnah H on 03/07/2009 8:13 pm

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DeB o…b…j…! Please see Schaeffer on D.J. Hughley from last week…you tube……Definitely an OBJ…….

By georgia fatwood on 03/11/2009 10:37 pm

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Hello Lou…I’m not entirely sure of your take on this, but you might want to "fish out" Frank Schaeffer’s interview with D.L. Hughley from last week…..(I don’t know how to cut and paste it to you….my bad)

By georgia fatwood on 03/11/2009 3:23 pm

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Thank you, Georgia. I enjoyed the interchange between Frank Schaeffer and DL Hughley. I am really very turned off by the religious right. Hypocrisy is a very negative human trait. I live right smack dab in the middle of the Bible belt and I am sick to death of folks dismissing you unless you are in lock step with their beliefs. I have enjoyed WOW in the past, but it is getting a little to the right for me.

By Lou Hoover on 03/11/2009 4:41 pm

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Dear Lou Hoover.Thank you for reading that..I seem to have a knack for names…..maybe faces…and I think you were here early on and have not been "talking" much……not that it matters too much..given the tenor/tenure of our times here…….Should you see fit to discuss this further, I am here….at least occasionally…..And I am really curious about …"what Bible Belt is That"? Bible Belt of the Mind ? Geographic? I grew up with the geographic one ….South and the Appalachians and family who said I was going to hell if I played cards or listened to Jerry Lee Lewis or got pregnant or chewed gum in church…and you can’t go to movies at the the-a-terr on Sundays…….. and I knew how to accommodate it and live with it..Happily, my father decided to bail on that and become an Episcopal (also Jungian) clergyman.(We can’t "go home " again…not to Western Kentucky…)..Not so easy anymore that the belt is in Alaska and Maryland and South Bronx, etc…….I was in college (liberal arts, dontcha know) in Lynchburg VA when Jerry Falwell was getting his scam together and we were threatened by the "christian church people" who put us under constant attack….verbally, physically sometimes, editorially….etc…endless abuse.(.sort of for being girls who were smart)….towards a school for women that had been in existence since the 1800’s……..I watched my father at seminary and his classmates and all of my teachers at a cooperative school that we went to outside of DC get nailed big time in the McCarthy hearings….That was when I was eight and nine…….Witch hunts that flattened whole neighborhoods of the mind……Well, just forget the part about no dancing and no card playing…….They( the bible thumping family) took care of everybody in their purview and tons of others besides…as in the Acts of the Apostles………the original hippies…..communal, darlin’……….Sorry if that root word is so problematic for so many people who have already "got theirs" ("I’ve got mine,….I defy you to get yours…..and don’t you dare try to get yours….not on my Christian nickel….not on my tithe…….") Sorry…sorry…I am very troubled by this ….I have been charged with editing my father’s sermons…not for publication exactly, but I have to put them in order…..that means re-reading and wishing that he were here to tell this tale….like I said, I am troubled with the myth of christianity..as was he….I think he would say it’s a big ball of cosmic dough…..and every cookie cutter is as good as the next……..and don’t forget to read Joseph Campbell….Please just RSVP and I won’t bother you again….Just needed somewhere to put this……..Thanks…….

By georgia fatwood on 03/11/2009 11:45 pm

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I live in Cordova, TN, which is a suburb of Memphis. The Bible belt I am referring to is the one where if you have an original thought or question the validity of traditional Christianity or try to discuss the religion of wealth and all of that hypocrisy you might just be labeled a heretic or worse…. a democrat. Yes, I found Wow closer to the elections and "talked" quite a bit. But the negative tenor and right leanings have turned me off a bit. Also, this is really tacky and terrible, but I really wish the men would leave the site. It just seems that many of them just want to stir the pot and see the reaction. Also, the way they process thoughts is so "male". Since menopause, men just don’t fascinate me anymore. I have always been one of those people who enjoyed that little bit of friction between the sexes even when completely innocent. Maybe, I need to up my hormones just a wee bit!

I must admit, I was not familiar with Joseph Campbell. I did a little research and he seems to have a different perspective. Around here, anything but fundamentalist Christianity is an odd duck. I may try to read one of his books. Which one do you recommend for the novice?

I am piqued by your alias….. my grandmother was named Georgia. Is that your name or does it have a deep meaning?

I enjoy your posts, Thank you.

By Lou Hoover on 03/12/2009 2:26 pm