"Shaniqua, you gettin' on my last nerve beotch. I wonder if Mariah Carey would reconsider my First Lady offer."
Posted on 07/01/2008 6:07:29 PM PDT by Bill Dupray
Dinesh D'Souza breaks out the red pen on Michelle Obama's thesis. "To wreak so much havoc on the English language in one sentence, without conveying anything of substance, is perhaps deserving of a prize. Is this what her professors were thinking when they granted her honors?"
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A campus building with their name on it within a generation?
I find this statement ironic, considering that is exactly the attitude that Michelle herself projects. Why is it everyone else's responsibility to be welcoming and inclusive when she has chosen to set herself apart based on her race?
They were thinking, first of all, about protected melanin. Next, they were thinking about how they could unload her. I’m sure she was an unpleasant, self-centered, grievance-fueled witch even as a young witch.
Is this a joke?? Is this a thesis for a master’s degree or higher? The professor who gave her a passing grade on it (if that is how they judge these things) should be fired. She doesn’t even come across as being above average. With that bad grammar and those misspellings she sounds like she is barely qualified for community college.
[... D’Sousa writes, “When you achieve a goal on any grounds other than
your own merits, the pride is that much less earned, the reward that much
less satisfactory”...]
Could this be the reason Michelle Obama felt like a “visitor” at Princeton?
Good point. Lefties always do this. They accuse their political enemies with what they are guilty of doing and perpetuating.
“it often seems as if..”
Mrs. Obama harbored the bias. Can one really get away with what reads as a last minute thesis at Princeton?
How dare anyone criticize her... she’s Black you know?
LOL...apparently one can.
Dinesh D’souza has a tin ear for politics (at least at times), like when he blamed Al Quada on Moslem sensibilities offended by Hollywood. Who cares to go back to grade MO’s Princeton thesis?
It’s all about Michelle. Her college thesis is about herself. She’s only proud when Americans are supporting her husband. When she’s asked about her proud statement, she says of course she’s proud because America produced her. She complains to working class people that she has to pay thousands of dollars in tuition fees for her daughters. It seems like she made another comment to a general question and immediately went into something about her daughters. Michelle Obama thinks about herself and her family primarily. That’s all fine and dandy when you are Suzy Cashier from Iowa working in Wal-Mart, but when you are wanting your husband to be President and yourself to be First Lady it’s very off putting. I want someone that thinks about the country at large. She’s definitely of the me, me, me generation. No wonder Oprah is a lover of these people.
Honestly, I don’t care about MO. We should not be stooping this low and she is not running for anything.
That is a thesis?? What kind of research did she do?
She’s out there running her mouth trying to get her Communist husband in the highest office of the land so she is fair game.
She talked to herself.
For all we know, she gives great head; imagine what she could have hubby tackling as President.
That’s when you bury a couple of knock knock jokes on a page just to test if they read the whole thing.
weighs it in hand, flips the binding, smells the paper, “yep, that seems about an A-”.
Sounds like at least in part she b*tched and moaned about her personal feelings.
"Shaniqua, you gettin' on my last nerve beotch. I wonder if Mariah Carey would reconsider my First Lady offer."
Her bravado in continuing her race-baiting is breathtaking.
Some years ago there were several books by a man whose last name is Peter; can’t remember his first name.
I think the first book was titled: “The Peter Principle.” The gist of the book was that, in academe, in business, in the military, etc., a high percentage of individuals receive periodic promotions until, at some point, they have been promoted to a level that is beyond their abilities and expertise. And it is at that level that they spend the remainder of their career, screwing up the works and bungling everything they do; incapable of being promoted further, and almost impossible to demote or dismiss.
Peter also had another book titledL “The Peter Prescription” which contained Mr. Peter’s remedy for the problem. Since I have not been responsible for managing anyone but myself for over 30 years, I remember none of what he had to say.
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But, hey ... writing is a thing of its time. Michelle and Diane BOTH write -- and write well! -- for their target audience! The proof? For both, it worked. The greenbacks pour in, and every one by what was writ. Well, maybe also, what a cutie the package was that writ it. Whatever! It sells!
And it's not just them ... for would a male Michelle Malkin have the sway the more pleasantly packaged version does? Well, how is Captain's Quarters doing these days?
Let's face it. Packaging counts.
If I submitted writing that mangled in any of my military history classes, the professors probably would not even bother to mark it up and grade it.
God forgive mel I can’t help it! But lately whenever I see Mrs. Obama giving a speech or appearing in public, two things jump out at me. Her eyes and her teeth. That combination gives me the inescapable impression that she has a chip on her shoulder, that she is just begging for someone to say or do something to piss her off, and that she would just as soon bite someone’s head off as look at them. If I’m wrong, I’m sorry. But that is what comes across when I look into her eyes and see her bared teeth.
She led with her inner Black when on campus, didn’t she?
Given the number of alumni children who attend the Ivies, I am sure there were many others who displayed similar academic skills. However Michelle would not have travelled in their social circles. Though I would suggest her real reason for alienation was being unable to match the skill of Blacks enrolled at Princeton on their own merits. As she saw those moving into high achieving careers her response was to denigrate their accomplishment and career choices. She creates this bizarre segregationist career path as an act of spite towards those fellow Blacks who chose success over separation
AKA the "Salutary science of Hierarchiology". The main principle is that in an hierarchical organization a person rises to his level of incompetence.
However, the philosophy is only so wise. Taken too far, and that's not very far at all, it becomes a caustic cynicism and can induce a failure to appreciate the good people do.
That writing is typical of that of the semi-educated blacks I worked with at an International Labor Union.
They attempt to sound more literate than they are and just make it obvious that they have not done a lot of reading.
If one reads any amount of well-written literature, those mistakes would just not ring true.
I spent many an hour re-writing their reports. In English.
[... She creates this bizarre segregationist career
path as an act of spite towards those fellow Blacks
who chose success over separation ...]
Brilliant point! Well said.
“Given the number of alumni children who attend the Ivies, I am sure there were many others who displayed similar academic skills.”
Having gone to Ivies (not as a “legacy”), I don’t think so. In my experience, the advantage given to legacies is not even close to what happens with affirmative action. Being a legacy would be a tie breaker or boost you by a few points. Being “special” like MO usually means you can be far below asians and whites in achievement and ability. It is a shame because some AA people admitted are good enough to get in on their own merit - and most others have potential, but they are mismatched with the institution. MO was bitter because she knew that she really wasn’t Princeton material.
I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich [sic] I interact with Whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be Black first and a student second. [snip]
These experiences have made it apparent to me that the path I have chosen to follow by attending Princeton will likely lead to the further integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; that will only allow me This realization has presently, made my goals to actively utilize my resources to benefit the Black community more desirable.
Sheesh. It’s too old.
“I have found...” :I FEEL
“...try to be toward me...” :I FEEL
“I sometimes feel” :I FEEL
“...it often seems...” :I FEEL
“...have made it apparent to me...” :I FEEL
“...will likely lead to...” :I FEEL
“...that will only allow me...” :I FEEL
How’s ‘bout THINKING for a change, MO?
Poor Michelle...
she had to endure years of humiliation at Chicago’s top-flight
public high school.
And, like her husband, she knows when to ditch a relationship which
is a political liability (salaried board member of TreeHouse Foods).
It would be interesting to know if she gave back the money she took
from this awful company that has dealings with WalMart
(snicker)
Other Fun Facts about Michelle Obama (granted, it’s from Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama
“
Michelle graduated from Whitney Young High School in 1981 and went
on to major in sociology and minor in African American studies at
Princeton University, where she graduated cum laude with an A.B. in 1985.
At Princeton, she challenged the teaching methodology for French because
she felt that it should be more conversational. As part of her requirements
for graduation, she wrote a thesis entitled, “Princeton-Educated Blacks
and the Black Community.”
(snip)
Now, she is her husband’s closest adviser.Early in the presidential
race she did not portray herself as an adviser, however. In fact,
she was quoted in interviews saying “My job is not a senior adviser.”
(snip)
She served as a salaried board member of TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
(NYSE: THS),[27] a major Wal-Mart supplier with whom she cut ties
immediately after her husband made comments critical of Wal-Mart at
an AFL-CIO forum in Trenton, New Jersey, on May 14, 2007.
(snip)
She employs an all-female staff of aides for her political role.[20]
She says that she negotiated an agreement in which her husband gave
up smoking in exchange for her support as a Presidential aspirant.[34]
About her role in her husband’s presidential campaign she has said:
“My job is not a senior adviser.”
(snip)
Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, (commonly known as Whitney Young),
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Young_High_School
“
It is considered by many to be the most prestigious public high school
in Chicago. In 2005, the school earned recognition as one of the
top schools in the country by U.S. News and World Report, ranking it
among the top 10% of high schools nationally. This ranking includes both
public and private high schools.
“
Fellow Alumi from Whitney Young High
Andy and Larry Wachowski, writers and directors of The Matrix
Jesse Jackson Jr., U.S. Representative
I think this overstates the case against Michelle's writing skills. Dinesh D'Souza graduated Phi Beta Kappa in English from Dartmouth. Excellent students don't always appreciate just how bad the mediocre students are.
Thank-you Professor Wallace you have made me a much better student.
Incorrect use of the hyphen, no commas where needed, etc.
If Ivy League schools are admitting students who are this illiterate, color me unimpressed.
You had me at victim.
Black guilt?
Really? Let's have a look at the sentence in question:
"By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desparation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight."
Sister Theresa would have bled my (or any other male sophomore's) knuckles white for this sentence in high school -- and you think this is an acceptable sentence in a baccalaureate thesis at a putatively elite university?
This writing is a disgrace and any white or Asian student denied acceptance at Princeton considering a vote for Obama ought to reflect on the injustice of being a twenty-first century victim of the new Jim Crow.
[... If Ivy League schools are admitting students
who are this illiterate, color me unimpressed...]
In order to avoid stating the obvious, I’ll just
say that... ignorance is indeed our worst enemy.
Of course it is unacceptable, but I doubt that it is particularly unusual. I am just guessing, but I suspect that even at Ivy League universities, students near the bottom of the class write poorly.
I have a math professor friend who teaches at the local state university, who recently complained to me about his students who never learned the multiplication table. He said that they cannot multiply two single digit numbers in their heads. He was serious.
A few years ago, a local (white) university student who majored in English asked me to correct the typos in her term paper. She was reputedly a top student, but oh, what a painful paper. Typos were the least of its problems. I rewrote the first couple of pages as an example of what I hoped she would do with the remainder. I got the impression that no one had ever edited one of her papers before. The experience was embarrassing for both of us.
Again, I am just guessing, but I doubt that Michelle Obama was such an extraordinarily bad student that she deserved some sort of prize. Things get ugly at the bottom of the class.
If an English professor wants to disagree with me, I will happily change my mind.
Ah, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
I wonder what Thomas Sowell would think of this paper?
I taught undergrads in the 1970s and 1980s, and I taught Physics, not English. Things were sliding downhill then, which, if I'm not mistaken, would have been the time frame MO attended Princeton; I've no doubt they've slid further still and your friend's take is accurate. But a state university in 2008 is not Princeton in the 1980s. This is the kind of sentence my (poorer) engineering students might have turned in. But neither hard science nor engineering was MO's major. Majoring in a soft discipline, she would've been expected to write often.
Persist in your opinion if you like, but in my academic experience during this time period, D'Souza is much closer to the truth than you.
Yes, she definitely comes across as one nasty person.
Not only that, but the fact remains that she *didn’t* belong at Princeton-—not because of the color of her skin, but because the quality of her intellect did not meet Princeton’s true admission standards and true day-to-day academic standards.
Of course a person is likely to feel alienated at an institution at which, from the get-go, they were ill-equipped intellectually to compete. Mrs. Obambi has stated over and over again that she was admitted to Princeton even though she didn’t have the scores-—that is, even though she did not meet the standard for admission that most other students met.
As I’ve said before, if I were somehow admitted to the NFL despite not being able to play to league standards, admission would in no way convey upon me the ability and skills to truly play football to NFL standards on the field. Just the way it is.
Believe it or not, Mrs. Obambi was awarded some sort of departmental “honors” for this piece of embarrassing tripe.
Of course it is. Every human being is acutely aware when in a situation in which he cannot compete.
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