‘Oh honey, you tried!’: What Michelle Obama thought she’d have to say to Barack in 2008 – video

Michelle Obama has said one of the reasons she supported Barack Obama's decision to run for president in 2008 was because 'deep down, I was like, there's no way he's going to win'.

During a discussion about her memoir, Becoming, in Royal Festival Hall, at the Southbank Centre in London, Obama said she did not believe the US was ready for a black president