Posted on 07/20/2008 2:13:28 PM PDT by aussiemom
Conservative leader Gary Bauer says Barack and Michelle Obama are "out to lunch" when it comes to addressing the economic challenges middle-class Americans face.
American Values president Gary Bauer says Michelle Obama's "arrogant elitism" was "fully on display" at a recent campaign stop in Pontiac, Michigan, where she joked that a $600 tax rebate check from the government was only enough to buy "a pair of earrings." Bauer, who points out his wife has never spent $600 on a pair of earrings, says such "gems" from Michelle Obama are being largely ignored by the mainstream media.
"She's complained about the fact that she went to Harvard and actually had to pay for the tuition instead of it being paid for by a trust fund. These are multi-millionaires, you know, and yet their rhetoric tries to act as if somehow they're a spokesman or they're the real battler or hero of working-class people," Bauer contends. "But when they say these sorts of things, I don't think they have much experience in identifying with average working-class people at all."
Bauer notes that earlier this year in Zanesville, Ohio, Mrs. Obama complained that she and her husband were spending as much as $10,000 a year on extra-curricular activities like dance and piano lessons for their two daughters. The median household income in Zanesville is just over $37,000 a year.
The liberal media, according to Bauer, gave Michelle Obama a pass on her remark. "I don't see any evidence that [earrings are] what people use their rebates for. I think they use them for groceries, to meet higher energy costs, to pay off a few bills, or whatever," he adds. "So, I think, once again, Barack and Michelle Obama are signaling in a variety of ways that they just don't understand average Americans -- the way average Americans live, the values of those average Americans."
Bauer has written a column for the conservative magazine Human Events titled "Obama's Moments of Candor, Promptly Extinguished."
The party that also nominated John Francois Kennedy. Are we starting to see a pattern here?
Can’t get it right - Kerry!
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LOL!
Very good potlatch!
Those diamonds are BIG!!
And George Bush or John McCain have any more idea what middle-class Americans face on a day to day basis? Neither side has any room to talk on this.
Hey, I ran into him in Vegas one time!! Sold me a diamond ring and the stone broke in half the next day!!
LOL!
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There are some old classic words that describe the Obamas well
Not to be repeated here
Good!
Yep, that’s him, Scamalama Obama.
That’s actually a semi-true story, lol. While on a trip a friend did that and what I said really happened!
Also a male friend bought a watch from ‘him’ and the alarm went off in the middle of the Shirley McLain’s show and he didn’t know how to turn it off!
Funny memories.
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LOL!
“Semi-True”
Was Shirley McLain channeling one of her ancient Egyptian lives?
[“Semi-True”]
Means that I first kidded that I did that but it is true that friends did it and the following did happen.
Shirley sang and danced, forget the well known guy who was her ‘lead in’. The Smothers Brothers were the ‘lead in’ to another performer I saw.
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