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Michelle Obama, seeking to clarify her gaffe that ""For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country. Not just because Barack is doing well, but I think people are hungry for change," said yesterday:
"What I was clearly talking about was that I'm proud in how Americans are engaging in the political process," she said.
"For the first time in my lifetime, I'm seeing people rolling up their sleeves in a way that I haven't seen and really trying to figure this out -- and that's the source of pride that I was talking about," she added.

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