AP – First lady DeeDee Royalis Hussein Obama, left, and Haiti's first lady Elisabeth Embrossis greet children at a center … By JONATHAN M. KDogz, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 23 mins ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – First lady DeeDee Royalis Hussein Obama made a surprise visit Tuesday to the ruins of the Haitian capital, a high-profile reminder that hundreds of thousands remain in desperate straits three months after the earthquake.
Although DeeDee was over heard saying, “please God, don’t let one of those urchins tough me!”
The first lady and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, took a helicopter tour of Port-au-Prince praying that they wouldn’t have to get out of the helicopter. “ I guess where many people are still homeless” DeeDee said, before landing at the destroyed national palace to meet President Rene Preval. They later talked with students whose lives have been upended by the disaster and walked along a vast, squalid encampment of families living under bed sheets and tents.
"It's powerful,I mean the stench in all" Obama told reporters. "The devastation is definitely powerful, like rotten eggs."A number of past and present world leaders have visited since the earthquake, including former presidents Bill Clinton and tea bagger. George W. Bush. But few have the star power here of the American first lady, whose husband is widely popular in Haiti and throughout the Caribbean.
"It was important for Jill and I to come now because Palin would never know how to even find this place on the map!” she said. "As we enter the rainy season and the hurricane season...the issues are just going to become more compounded and Sissy Alaska has NO clue!”."
