Michelle Obama is "just down to earth"

"The Obamas visited the home of Cheryl and Mike Fischer for a lunch of sandwiches and potato chips. Sitting around an oak table in the one-story brick home in the Indianapolis suburb of Beech Grove, Mike Fischer, 53, told of layoffs that loom at Amtrak where he works as a machinist.

Workers whose jobs will be cut will get the option of moving to Chicago. But the Fischers said they had ruled that out because they wanted to stay close to family.

Michelle offered sympathy, saying she chose for similar reasons to stay with her children in Chicago when her husband won his U.S. Senate seat in 2004.

"A lot people said you are going to move to Washington. I was like 'No'," she said. "All my support is the support you build up over years. It is my mom, girlfriends -- you move away from everything."

Asked later about the lunch, Cheryl Fischer, 52, said it had gone well and she particularly liked Michelle Obama.

"She is just down to earth. You can just talk to her. She's like your girlfriend," Fischer said.

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