Here’s something refreshing: Learning about a politician’s marriage before it’s a complete trainwreck! For this week’s New York Times magazine cover story , Jodi Kantor spoke to Barack and Michelle Obama about their relationship. “I married you because you’re cute and you’re smart,” Michelle told the president when he first announced that he intended to run for the Illinois State Senate. “But this is the dumbest thing you could have ever asked me to do.” Fourteen years later, she might think differently about her husband’s political career, but it took a while to get there. And …
