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    Originally posted: June 5, 2008
    Michelle Obama gets a better 'View'

    Posted at 8 a.m. Thursday, June 5

    Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s getting equal time on “The View.”

    Well, his wife, Michelle, is.

    Michelle Obama will sit in as co-host with Barbara Walters and the other “View” women on June 18, ABC said. It’s her first time as both guest and co-host on the show.

    According to AP, the talk show had invited her to be a guest, but she answered that she would like to host just like Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential nominee John McCain, did in April.

    “Equal time—that's hard to argue with,” the show’s exec producer Bill Geddie told the AP.

    John McCain has been on “The View” several times. Barack Obama has appeared twice, including earlier this year when Walters got a little flirty with him. When Obama claimed that his distant cousin, Brad Pitt, got the better looking side of the gene pool, Walters said, “We thought you were very sexy looking.” Take a look:


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