CHARLOTTE - On a stage that resembled a talk show set, Michelle Obama listened this morning to a handful of North Carolina women tell stories about their personal economic struggles.
"I told the ladies this is like 'The View,'" Obama told about 400 people at Charlotte's McGlohan Theater.
It was the second economic roundtable in as many days for Barack Obama's wife, reports Jim Morrill of The Charlotte Observer.
Michelle Obama shared the stage with women who told their stories: A grandmother forced to get a job when her retirement dollars didn't stretch. A teacher whose illness bars her from most health insurance plans. A business woman whose husband was laid off and who can't sleep for worry about her own family and her aging parents.
Obama nodded in empathy and offered her husband's prescriptions for helping people like those around her through tax cuts, universal health care and more access to education.
"Folks up here aren't asking for yachts and cruises," she said. "They're not asking for a third house ... Some folks are trying to keep the one."
Many in the audience left impressed.
"It was awesome, and so real," said Tia Capers, a 37-year-old banker from Cornelius. "Stories that everybody could relate to. It was almost like talking to your next-door neighbors."
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