O, Michelle ‘talked divorce’

They’re the picture of marital bliss today but the Obamas were once headed for divorce — and friends of the future president worried he was suicidal during a low point in his career, controversial new biography “The Amateur” claims.

In 2000, after eight years of marriage, Barack Obama decided — despite Michelle’s objections — to challenge Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush in a primary on Chicago’s South Side. Obama was crushed in a 2-to-1 Rush landslide.

According to the book, the defeat left Obama a wreck. Edward Klein writes, “During the dark days that followed his defeat, he turned to Michelle for comfort. But she was in no mood for sympathy . . . He had refused to listen to her warnings about taking on” formidable Rush. The primary also left them in debt.
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