FOXNews.com: Michelle Obama talks up president's humble beginnings as steering his public life

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Michelle Obama talks up president's humble beginnings as steering his public life Sep 5th 2012, 02:51 First lady Michelle Obama stressed her family's and her husband's humble beginnings Tuesday -- calling it a "story of hope" -- in a speech that capped the first night of the Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C. In her opening remarks, Obama paid tribute to America's teachers and veterans. And she went on to tell the audience a bit about her and her husband's early life. Obama said their life before moving to Washington was filled with "simple joys." She said Barack Obama used to pick "me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by in a hole in the passenger side door. "He was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he'd found in a dumpster, and whose only pair of decent shoes was a half size too small," she said. Obama said the two of them were "raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable – their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves." Michelle Obama took to the podium to defend and promote her husband on the first official day of the Democrats' convention, one week after Ann Romney did the same for her husband, Mitt Romney, at the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla. The first lady is not just the president's better half, but also his more popular half. Gallup polling back in May showed Michelle Obama's approval rating at 66 percent, effectively unchanged since President Obama was inaugurated. The president's approval rating, meanwhile, has fallen below 50 percent.

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