Michelle Obama dancing in India

And her Desi dancing is almost as cool as her husband's $10 billion in new trade deals! The NYT has more video and context.

Because she is awesome, she also played hopscotch:

Comments

[Shelley]

I am not 100% convinced that Barak was meant to be president, but I am more than 100% convinced that Michelle was meant to be the First Lady. She is awesome.

[Paul]

I still love my president—but for sure, Michelle is all kinds of awesome.

[Tom]

It's so nice (and stunningly unexpected) to have a First Lady who doesn't make herself and her hosts look bad.

[Paul]

And I don't know if you saw this, from the NYT story:

While Mrs. Obama’s thoughts on education have been politely received, many foreign politicians’ wives have come bearing the same message. As many as 60 percent of children live in poverty in India, overall literacy rates hover at 65 percent and female literacy rates are as low as 33 percent in some areas of the country.

Not all of the politicians’ wives have danced, though. In India, where everyone from teenage boys to septuagenarian aunts dance at weddings, a reticence to join the dance floor is seen as a troubling sign of a possible character flaw — one that Mrs. Obama certainly does not exhibit.

On Saturday, Mrs. Obama met with 33 orphaned and runaway children who are being taught English by Make a Difference, a nonprofit group. She played hopscotch and word games, and then picked up a tambourine and danced with the children to a theme song from a Bollywood movie.

[Angelique]

I love Michelle Obama! And I don't know how anyone can go to India and not dance with a huge smile on one's face. I miss India.