United States First Lady Michelle Obama says America is ready for a woman president, but would
not comment on prospects for Hillary Clinton getting the job.
Obama’s comments came in an
interview with Parade magazine, excerpts of which were published on its
website.
Asked if she thinks the country will
see a female president in her lifetime, the wife of President Barack Obama
said: “Yes, I think the country is ready for it. It’s just a question of who’s
the best person out there.”
She declined to comment on the
prospects for Clinton running to succeed Obama in 2016.
Hillary Clinton, a former US senator
and secretary of state under Obama during his first term, has been vague on
whether she will seek the nation’s highest office.
She left her post as the top US
diplomat in February and polls released with the Democratic nominating
convention still three years off say she is ahead — both in the Democratic
primaries and in the theoretical general election.
Of Clinton’s prospects, Mrs Obama
said, “She hasn’t announced anything, so I’m certainly not going to get ahead
of her.”
She added that she herself will not
run for president. Obama also said she thinks her
husband’s time in office has helped ease racial prejudice in the United States.
“Children born in the last eight
years will only know an African-American man being president of the United
States. That changes the bar for all of our children, regardless of their race,
their sexual orientation, their gender,” Obama said.
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