![EXCLUSIVE: Former First Lady Michelle Obama steps out with friends Bruce Springsteen and wife Patti Scialfa at celebrity restaurant Polo Bar in New York City. The two families have been friends since The Boss campaigned for Barack Obama during his successful run for the White House in 2008. Michelle famously told her President husband he needed to spend more time with Springsteen. Both men have talked about their friendship — fortified in part by the bond between their wives, Michelle and Patti. In the first episode of a podcast, called Renegades, Obama, 59, said he and Springsteen, 71, "grew to trust each other" based on conversations in which they reflected on feeling "invisible" throughout their childhoods. Springsteen sang with a gospel choir at the newly elected president's inauguration in 2009 and later recalled how he thought Obama had the wrong number the first time the Chicago Democrat called him. "And I said, 'OK, let me figure this out. I am a guitar-playing high school graduate from Freehold, New Jersey. And — OK — you want me to do what?" Springsteen said. Over the years, both have realized they had more in common than they initially realized. Namely, that they both felt like outsiders. "I always kept one foot in sort of the blue collar world and one foot in the counter culture world," Springsteen said of growing up in New Jersey. "And I never truly belonged completely in either of them, you know?". 28 Sep 2022 Pictured: Michelle Obama. Photo credit: ZapatA/MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342 (Mega Agency TagID: MEGA902427_026.jpg) [Photo via Mega Agency]](https://hollywoodlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/michelle-obama-nyc-mega.jpg?fit=293%2C440)
As the presumptive Democratic nominee for the Presidency of the United States, former Vice President Joe Biden has a lot of major decisions to make before Election Day in November 2020 — including who his running mate will be! During his April 20 interview with Pittsburgh KDKA News journalist Jon Delano, the Democratic frontrunner shared one particular requirement he has for choosing a Vice President for his campaign. “I’ll commit to it being a woman,” Biden said of the person who will be his VP. “I think it’s very important that my administration look like the public, look like the nation.”
Biden did, however, note that he does intend to nominate a woman of color to join the Supreme Court under his administration. “I’ve committed there will be a woman of color on the Supreme Court, that doesn’t mean there won’t be Vice President, as well.” The candidate said that his team has just begun “the process” and will “surely be announcing the committee I’ve named to review this and begin to look through the backgrounds of various potential nominees.”
Many admirers of the candidate have speculated whether or not Biden would choose former First Lady Michelle Obama to join his administration as his VP, were she interested. When Delano asked former President Barack Obama‘s VP about the idea, Biden simply said, “I’d take her in a heartbeat!” Biden, who became very close with the Obama family during the administration, had nothing but compliments for the former First Lady. “She’s brilliant. She knows the way around. She is a really fine woman. The Obamas are great friends.” However, Biden noted, “I don’t think she has any desire to live near the White House again.” Despite his insistence that Mrs. Obama wasn’t considering a run for the White House, fans on Twitter called the pairing an “automatic win” while others begged Biden to “please pick Michelle Obama” as his running mate.
As for how Michelle Obama really feels about admirers wanting her back in the White House, she is still uninterested. Indeed, Obama has time and again shared that she would rather embolden and support the next generation of progressive leaders rather than continue to take up space in the political arena. “It’s not us occupying the same seats, it’s making room,” she shared about returning to the White House during the March 2019 Austin, TX stop of her book tour for Becoming. “[The country is] full of opportunity for every single child,” she continued. “It’s up to us to be that and pave the way for them. So we have no choice but to be hopeful [about the future], if we love our kids, which we all do, am I right?”
As for how the Obamas are planning to support Biden during his campaign, President Obama shared on April 14 that he was “so proud to endorse Joe Biden for president.” Obama shared a message of hope, akin to his own 2008 and 2012 campaign, in his support of Biden. “We both know that nothing is more powerful than millions of voices calling for change. And the ideas he’s championed, the energy and enthusiasm he inspired, especially in young people, will be critical in moving America in a direction of progress and hope.”
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