Why didn Michele accompany Pres. Obama to Arab countries?
Michelle has accompanied Obama to a Muslim country. In fact, they set up residence in the world’s largest Muslim country during the Clinton years. Obama’s sister Maya Soetero-Ng told the New York Times in 2008 that the Obama’s lived in Indonesia for months , so Barry could find peace and quiet to write his first book. At the time, he was a nobody. Just a community organizer who graduated from law school. The coast of Maine, the Rockies, the beach communities off the Carolinas and GA were not peaceful enough. ” His half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, said he eventually retreated to Bali for several months with his wife, Michelle, to find a peaceful sanctuary where there were no phones. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/politics/18memoirs.html?ei=5124&en=06380c5da09c3c80&ex=1368849600&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&pagewanted=all In June, 2008 Jim Geraghty at NRO highlighted the Soetero-Ng comments , but, no one ever spoke of it again. http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ODdl
