Political Observation of the Day!
A few weeks ago Michelle Obama stated that for the first time she felt good about America. This is a woman who has risen to the top of her profession and attended Princeton and Harvard Law. She didn't feel good about the opportunities she had?????? Spare me Mrs. Obama.
In another piece written by Byron York and reported on Drudge, York points out some other things about an appearance in Ohio.
Michelle Obama: "Don't Go Into Corporate America" [Byron York]
I have a new story today about Michelle Obama's visit to Zanesville, Ohio, where she met with a group of women at a local day care center. According to the U.S. Census, Muskingum County, where Zanesville is located, had a median household income of $37,192 in 2004, below both the Ohio and national averages. Just 12.2 percent of adults in the county have a bachelor's degree or higher, also well below the state and national averages. About 20 percent don't have a high school degree. Nevertheless, Mrs. Obama urged them to foreswear lucrative professions like corporate law or hedge fund management and go into the helping industry, even if the sacrifice is great:
As she has many times in the past, Mrs. Obama complains about the lasting burden of student loans dating from her days at Princeton and Harvard Law School. She talks about people who end up taking years and years, until middle age, to pay off their debts. “The salaries don’t keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so you’re in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids,” she says. BS! Obama!
“Barack and I were in that position,” she continues. “The only reason we’re not in that position is that Barack wrote two best-selling books… It was like Jack and his magic beans. But up until a few years ago, we were struggling to figure out how we would save for our kids.” A former attorney with the white-shoe Chicago firm of Sidley & Austin, Obama explains that she and her husband made the choice to give up lucrative jobs in favor of community service. “We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do,” she tells the women. “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond.” Faced with that reality, she adds, “many of our bright stars are going into corporate law or hedge-fund management.”
What she doesn’t mention is that the helping industry has treated her pretty well. In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office. And that does not count the money Mrs. Obama receives from serving on corporate boards. She would have been O.K. even without Jack’s magic beans.
She is a full blown hypocrite, elitist and Limousine Liberal! It is this kind of crap that totally turns me off. Playing a class warfare card is as bad as the race card as far as I am concerned. I am sure the student loans captured the short fall of the nice scholarships to these Eastern Ivy League elitist schools. As I have said before, I am leaning to Obama if he doesn't go too far left. I am leaning back to McCain at the moment because of Mrs. Obama.
Rant Over!
Have a nice day!
Samuel C. Arnold
2 comments:
Bullshit!
Michelle Obama was born and raised in that bastion of elitism, ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO, everything she accomplished was the result of hard work and personal talent. She, and Barack Obama, got everything through their own hard work. This is not "limosine liberlism." (As opposed to the current occupent of the white house who as the idiot son has not only had everything handed to him but has failed at everything he has ever tried. He made a boat load of money on the sale of the Texas Rangers thanks to the new stadium built with tax payer money, but hey, people shouldn't look to the government for help. That is hypocrisy defined)
As far as her comments about being the proud of her country for the first time, it was her expression of gratitude to the voters for rejecting the status quo and not sending those who are politically entrenched. This is wrap yourself in the flag patriotism bullshit. I agree with Ms. Obama's sentiments. I am not always proud of my country. It is not out of malice, it is a feeling that this country has so much potential that often is not met.
Yes, Michelle Obama is the problem. Let's vote for John McCain, HIS PILL POPPING wife, and the Keating 5, and someone who has been in Washington forever and by his own admission "doesn't understand the economy." Then we can all sit and wonder why things don't change.
and just when I thought my uncle had changed his tune, he comes back with this one. I can't comment on the validity of Michelle's comments. I live in a country where they've just started pronouncing Mr. Obama's name correctly :)
Anna Marie
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