Lynn Sweet, writing in today’s Chicago Sun Times, paints a picture of Michelle as a difficult to manage and extremely ambitious employee at Chicago’s preeminent law firm of Sidley, Austin.

There’s that famous Obama/Robinson hubris again! “Hey, what’s in it for MOI!”

From Lynn Sweet’s column, here’s an excerpt from the new Liza Mundy book, Michelle: A Biography (read her article on the Obama in the Washington Post)…


“But Michelle could also frustrate her supervisors. Quincy White, the partner who helped recruit Michelle and who headed the marketing group, remembers finding her a challenge to manage. White, who is now retired from the firm, says he gave her the most interesting work he could find, in part because he wanted to see her advance, but also because she seemed perennially dissatisfied.

She was, White recalls, “quite possibly the most ambitious associate that I’ve ever seen.” She wanted significant responsibility right away and was not afraid to object if she wasn’t getting what she felt she deserved, he says.

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