I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry -

Host: The rain outside fell in steady sheets, a quiet percussion against the glass of the coffee shop. The city beyond was blurred — a watercolor of headlights, umbrellas, and half-seen faces moving through the soft gray. Inside, everything felt still, cocooned in the hum of espresso machines and murmured conversation.

Jack sat near the window, his hands wrapped around a chipped mug. His coat hung over the back of the chair, still damp from the weather. Jeeny sat across from him, her notebook open but forgotten, eyes focused not on the page — but on him.

For a while, neither spoke. The silence wasn’t empty; it pulsed with things waiting to be said.

Then Jeeny broke it, her voice quiet but firm.

Jeeny: “Richard Cohen once said, *‘I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry — and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to