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Posted on 02/24/2008 9:14:31 AM PST by rellimpank
The dress, a purple shift, is almost ludicrously simple. The pearls around her neck are fakes, each one the size of a gobstopper, and deliberately so.
It is clear that the woman gazing out from the cover of Newsweek magazine has a message for anyone caring to glance at the news stand.
Yes, Michelle Obama is a glamorous lawyer with a big salary, a bigger house and a husband with one hand on the Presidency, but never forget that this is also the little black girl from Chicago who overcame the odds to change the face of American politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
(Unless, of course, they thought I was black. They may have. One of my other colleges was Clark College in MA (my cousin was the registrar and talked me into it), but the admissions office MAY have thought it was Clark Atlanta College as it then was . . . a "traditionally black school". But I don't see how they could have thought that, given that my race and my photograph were on my application! I'm one of the Black Irish -- but VERY Irish to the naked eye.)
But it's a shame to promote people beyond their level of competence. It is better to have a good education and a solid degree from a middle tier school where you can handle the work, than to be totally outclassed at a top tier school and have to be cosseted along and given special treatment -- and KNOW you're being given special treatment. Special treatment rankles. No wonder she feels bad.
Alumnae would be the plural feminine.
I got too much time on my hands too, plus a Classics minor . . . . .
Of course. We all have bad days . . . me too < wink >
Re: The return of Aunt Ester
You made me spew my coke! LMAO
I agree with you. Mrs O doesn’t feel too bad or she’d buy some Pic-N-Pay shoes - not those $400 a pop Choo Shoes - and give the rest to the poor and unfortunate.
They both remind me of the Jesse and Al fauxPreacher types.
Thank you, but still I am surprised she didn’t correct it or have it corrected to the above stated Alumna. Although that’s probably inconsequential in contrast to all of the leftist drivel poured forth throughout her writing. I look for the tree without seeing a forest...
Princeton is an elite school. She says she felt like an outcast there. Looks like her family and neighborhood were very middle class when she was growing up. Could be her Princeton years changed her outlook on the world and her situation.
I would guess that it was B.C. . . . Before Computers.
I had to type my thesis by hand on an old-fashioned Smith Corona electric typewriter. Corrections were made by re-typing the page (no auto correcting typewriters then, and liquid paper was in its infancy and flaked right off the page).
She may have decided it wasn't worth retyping the page.
Ah, the old "liberal shame at being female" schtick. I noticed that, too. All I could say was, "Slow down, sister! You ain't come that far!"
This is what happens when you let people with an ounce of learning and a ton of pretension write theses.
I heard! That’s always good news. Hope it helps. My youngest son actually voted for Nader once. I have one who is a staunch conservative, one who is indifferent and never votes, and then my youngest, who is a moderate liberal. Sigh. Where did I go wrong????
It happens ... it’s not you ... .
I know. He’s just such a great guy and I can’t understand his mindset regarding politics. Argghhh.
Her great aunt lived in the downstairs. They rented from her. As I undertsand it, her MOther still lives there, while her and Barry manage in a $1.6 Million mansion.
Michelle’s father was a volunteer organiser for the city’s Democratic Party, a by-word for machine politics in America, and his loyalty was rewarded with a well-paid engineering job at Chicago’s water plant. Even before overtime, he earned $42,686 - 25 per cent more than High School teachers at the time.
“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘Blackness’ than ever before,” she wrote. “I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus, as if I don’t really belong.”
as she revealed in a 1985 thesis.
The document, now locked away by the university until after the election in November, betrays an angry, campaigning brand of politics which in no way fits with the mild-mannered advocate of common sense now winning hearts and minds from coast to coast.
40K a year back then was damned good.
my dad only made around 18K back in the 60s
IF McCain is elected, we will see something at least every 30 days. SO typical for the socialist media and the socialist democrat party.
This stuff makes me sick and angry that many people believe what is printed, true or not.
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