What Michelle Obama Is Doing To Her Grandfather Will Make You SICK [VIDEO] President Obama is desperate to reconnect with their hometown of Chicago, and he is not afraid to trot out the ancestors of his wife to do so. During an announcement about the Obama Presidential Library, which will be built on the South Side of Chicago, First Lady Michelle Obama shamelessly name-dropped her grandfather, Purnell Southside Shields. Southside Shields was a staple of the his Chicago neighborhood, where he was known to host cookouts for the entire community. Now this honorable man has been shrunk down to a prop in the Obama political scheme. How do you feel about this? Is it okay for Barack and Michelle to tarnish this mans legacy? 