And now the person you all came to see. [cheers and applause] Michelle Lavonne robinson obama. She is a lawyer. She is an author. And she is the wife of the 44th president of the United States. Barack obama. Throughout her initiatives as first lady she has become a role model for women and for girls. And an advocate for healthy families, Service Members and their families, higher education, and international adolescent girls education. Her much anticipated memoir becoming will be published in the u. S. And canada on november 13th, 2018, by crown. A division of Penguin Random house. It will be released simultaneously in 24 languages. Considered one of the most popular first ladies [cheers and applause] mrs. Obama invites readers into her world chronicling experiences that have shaped her from her childhood on the south side of chicago, to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the worlds most famous address. Warm, wise, and becoming
Challenge our assumptions and the rise of naked partisan ship and the splitting of our tastes it makes it inevitable. Instead of bases our opinions on the evidence that is out there. And this represents the 3rd threat to our democracy. Politics is a battle of ideas. Thats how our democracy was designed in the course of a healthy debate we prioritize goals and the different means of reaching them. Without some common baseline effects, without a willingness to see new information and see that the opponent is making a fair point and that science and reason matter, then we will keep talking past each other and we will make Common Ground and compromise impossible. [ applause ] isnt that what makes politic disspiritting. How can elected officials wage about deficits when we spend money on preschool for kids but not when we are cutting taxes for corporations . How do we excuse lapses in our party but pass when the other party does the same thing . It is not just dishonest this selective sorti