"She's a real breath of fresh air," CBS anchor Katie Couric said yesterday by phone from London. "I think Michelle Obama is very modern, very of-the-moment, and people want to get to know her better. She reaches out. She's a beautiful woman, stylish without being pretentious."
"Everybody in Europe is enthralled by her," Meredith Vieira says.
"Millions of people are just watching Michelle Obama, wondering what she will wear, wondering where she will show up next," Brian Williams reports.
The blogosphere is equally aflame. On the morning of the Buckingham Palace visit, Tina Brown wrote on the Daily Beast: "The excitement British women feel . . . is spiked with awe. She's so big-time. So self-confident. So devoid of rainy, British diffidence. In a country where most political wives and female members of Parliament are the stylistic equivalent of a tufted ottoman, Michelle's kind of striding self-assurance, glamour, and broad demographic appeal feels thrillingly 21st-century. The fact that she's African American adds an inspirational magic."
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