Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., addressing a crowd at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh in this April 2, 2008, file photo, told women at a town hall meeting Tuesday, April 8, 2008, in Harrisburg, Pa., that when she and her husband left law school, the monthly payments on their school loan debt was more than their monthly mortgage payment, and that they only got out of that debt when Barack Obama wrote his two best selling books, "The Audacity of Hope" and "Dreams from My Father." "We are not so far away from life that we don't understand and get it," she said during a day of campaigning in North Carolina ahead of the state's May 6 primary. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)


