Access Exclusive: Michelle Obama & Jill Biden Talk Family, The Campaign Trail & The Jonas Brothers!

Access Hollywood - September 25, 2008 5:47 PM PDT
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ALLENTOWN, PA -- In an Access Hollywood exclusive interview, which airs in three parts beginning on Thursday, September 25, Michelle Obama and Jill Biden opened up to Nancy O'Dell about family sleepovers, how the women immediately clicked, balancing work with family and more.

Following Access Hollywood's exclusive interview with Senator Obama and his family earlier this year, Nancy joined up with Michelle and Jill on the campaign trail in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where Nancy found out the friendship Michelle and Jill formed began the moment they met.

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"It was just one of those magical moments where we spent a week together and after that week, you know Michelle put her arms around me and I put my arms around her and she said, 'I love you' and I said, 'I love you, too,'" Jill recalled. "We just clicked."

When asked how life for the family has changed since Sen. Barack Obama was named the official Democratic Presidential candidate, Michelle said, "The biggest thing that happened to my kids this summer wasn't the convention or their dad securing the nomination. They got to meet The Jonas Brothers!"

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Making sure their families have fun while on the campaign trail is key. The night of Michelle's speech at the Democratic National Convention, her daughter Malia, 10, said she had something important to tell her mother.

"I was like, 'What? Was I bad?' She said, 'No, but we have to have a sleepover tonight,'" Michelle recounted. "The sleepover happened the next night and included Jill's granddaughters with about 15 children from the campaign."

The women also discussed balancing work and being on the campaign trail with time for their families.

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"No matter how my kids are doing, I feel like I should be spending more time with them," Michelle said. "When I am with them, I'm thinking this campaign is so important I should be spending every waking moment out on the campaign trail. I think that is what we as women, as parents, we always feel guilty.

"You know there is no investment more important than making sure that Barack and Joe get to the White House," Michelle continued. "That is the greatest gift I can give my girls at this time."

While discussing the struggles that families in America face, along with wanting a better life for their children and in Jill's case, grandchildren, Nancy commented that Jill doesn't look like a grandma.

"She's a hot nana!" Michelle exclaimed.

When asked about Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin being shielded from the press and treated as a delicate flower, Michelle said, "I try not to focus any amount of time on the other side. I think that they are making the choices that they think are best for their candidates."

The three-part interview will air on Access Hollywood Thursday, September 25, Friday, September 26 and Monday, September 29.

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  • SICOFIT
    Apache 1 get with samantha and move her (or heshe) on the reservation so you can live on a soverign nation just like venezuela, and get your support checks from the big chiefs if you want a handout, cause Nobama is gonna go down in his own buusheep. Liberals never win with a socialist platform america is waking up to the worst candidate ever put up for prez, you morons blew it with Hillery
    report abuseposted September 28, 2008 3:23 AM PDT
  • SICOFIT
    Poor lil samantha did the big bad white man not get the welfare check to ya in time to get your nails done? Your so full of crap it's got to your warped vile racist brain. Oh don't worry your stupid party and Nobama will support you so you will still not have to take responsibility for you and your racist friends just move to chicago for freebees Affirmative Action is racism you i
    report abuseposted September 28, 2008 3:16 AM PDT
  • Pamela G
    TMI, apache1. this site isn't about you. all minorities do is grouse about their lives, criticize, and blame, blame, blame. get over it, and get over yourselves.
    report abuseposted September 27, 2008 10:58 AM PDT
  • Pamela G
    kimberly c, reread my post. i never said michelle was always on the campaign trail. my comment referenced those who've faulted palin 4 being a working mother, just like michelle is/was. just a generalized comment. as for michelle's kids, do u really think the obama's won't have "drama" some day w/their kids? u must not b a mother!
    report abuseposted September 27, 2008 5:04 AM PDT
  • samantha
    White people have the affirmative action of the world. Half of the stupid stuff that McCain says or does is not reported. White people get the best of everything while oppressing minorities. Everything on TV is seen through a white lens which means racist attitudes are thoroughly ingrained in the news. That's real affirmative action, not the few crumbs they give to minorities.
    report abuseposted September 26, 2008 9:25 PM PDT
  • imalwaysright
    Yeah my wife is mexican you stupid motheroftwo. Mail order bride, yeah real classy ya dumb braud. You're not good enough to wash my wife's backside! Go kill a baby and protect a caribou you retarded hippie!!!! Socialism=Obama Common sense and mavericks= McCain/Palin
    report abuseposted September 26, 2008 6:17 PM PDT
  • imalwaysright
    What are you talking about? Thanks to stupid liberal policies like affirmative action you minorities got all the rights. As a straight white male I am not just a second class citizen - I'm like a fifth class citizen. That's why I married a Mexican, that way my children have a chance. You guys got everything and yet you always want more.
    report abuseposted September 26, 2008 6:12 PM PDT
  • Apache1
    8 years have been horrible. We have never had so many people unemployed and with no hope of finding employment that even comes close to what they had been earning. And if your wondering, no I'm not going to retire because I can't. As a Native American there was not the opportunity's you non minority's had. The fact that I was able to get a college degree in my 4
    report abuseposted September 26, 2008 11:32 AM PDT
  • Apache1
    For those of you who responded to my statement let me apologize first for any misspelling. That makes me a real idiot doesn't it? Then second for not responding sooner but you see I'm a 65 year old with a full time job so I can't hang on this site all day. I'm too busy trying to help people find jobs. I've been in this business for 30 years and the last
    report abuseposted September 26, 2008 11:29 AM PDT
  • samantha
    As John McCain gave his speech the camera panned outward and there was a sea of mostly old white faces. When Barack Obama gave his speech, they showed the crowd and it was just like America. There were young, old, black, white, Hispanic, and others, it was beautiful. Just as beautiful was seeing the Obama and Biden families standing together in real unity.
    report abuseposted September 25, 2008 11:45 PM PDT
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