That Moment Of Victory: Michelle Obama

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Saturday November 15, 2008 · 10:07 AM PST

2008/11/15 · 10:07

What a night...what a First Family! President-elect Barack Obama's first television interview since winning the election is with 60 Minutes on Sunday night. An excerpt below has Michelle Obama describing what it was like when they realized he had actually won.

Asked when it sunk in that her husband had won, Michelle Obama told Kroft, "I remember, we were watching the returns and, on one of the stations, Barack's picture came up and it said, 'President-Elect Barack Obama.' And I looked at him and said, 'You are the 44th president of the United States of America. Wow. What a country we live in.'"

"How about that?" President-elect Obama added. "Yeah. And then she said, 'Are you going take the girls to school in the morning?'"

"I did not," Michelle Obama replied, laughing. "I didn't say that."

Like all of you, I can hardly wait to watch the whole interview! It feels so exciting to be happy about my country's government again ... what a relief after eight years of feeling dismay, disgust and disappointment. We did a really great thing here for our country and for the world.

Maybe for the first time in generations, we will all be able to experience "Camelot" for ourselves.

Michelle Obama will make an elegant First Lady....indeed, "What a country we live in"!

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