President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois.

I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.