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"Glamour has invited all the presidential candidates to guest-blog on Glamocracy; their postings will appear between now and Super Tuesday, February 5. Tell us what you think about this blog posting. And read what the Glamocracy bloggers have to say. I wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t be running for president today without the women in my life. I was raised by my grandmother Madelyn Dunham, who loved my mother and me so completely that she rejected the bigotry that might have torn other families apart and embraced my parents&amp;amp;#8217; marriage. And she taught me a lesson that I&amp;amp;#8217;ve kept throughout my life, one that&amp;amp;#8217;s at the heart of my campaign&amp;amp;#8212;the idea that what unites us is stronger than what might divide us. My mother, Ann Dunham, was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known, and what is best in me, I owe to her. She died of ovarian cancer in the prime of her life, and I&amp;amp;#8217;ll never forget what she was most worried about in those final months. She was between jobs when she was diagnosed and she wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t sure whether insurance would cover her treatment. So I know what it&amp;amp;#8217;s like to see a loved one suffer because of a broken health care system. And I&amp;amp;#8217;m running for president so we can finally make universal health care a reality in this country. My wife, Michelle, radiates beauty, strength and integrity, and continues to make me a better person every day of our lives. Michelle has done an extraordinary job balancing her role as a mother with her responsibilities at work. But I know it&amp;amp;#8217;s not easy, and I also know that many other working moms are having an even harder time. That&amp;amp;#8217;s wrong. Women shouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t have to choose between their children and their careers in the United States of America. That&amp;amp;#8217;s why as president, I&amp;amp;#8217;ll make sure that employers provide their workers with seven paid sick days a year, and I&amp;amp;#8217;ll encourage all 50 states to offer paid leave. Michelle and I have worked hard not to let this campaign disrupt the lives of our two young daughters, Sasha and Malia. But the other day, for the first time, I had to miss one of Sasha&amp;amp;#8217;s dance recitals. And I was really broken up about it. Being away from them is the hardest part of running for president. But I also know that the reason I&amp;amp;#8217;m running is so that our generation can leave theirs a world that&amp;amp;#8217;s a little cleaner, safer and more hopeful to grow up in. It&amp;amp;#8217;s a vision inspired by the women in my life, and one that I want to carry out not just as a president, but a father. &amp;amp;#8212;Barack Obama Obama &amp;amp;#8216;08 website Next up: Mitt Romney"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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