Obama's odd coincidence?

American Thinker ^ | 5-10-08 | Thomas Lifson

[Renfield]

A Chicago pol's wife gets a 200 grand salary bump (almost tripling her compensation) and a year later hubby seeks to channel a million bucks to the wife's employer. Good old time Chicago poltics, right?

Apparently not, because the candidate in question is running on a platform of change, and he seems like such a nice fellow. Leon H. Wolfe of Redstate is being awfully judgmental here isn't he?

Barack Obama, allegedly decent guy and agent of "change" in Washington, requested an earmark in 2006 for $1 million taxpayer dollars for the hospital where his wife works. Said hospital, by the way, gave Michelle Obama a huge raise (nearly $200,000, more than doubling her salary) in 2005 after Barack got elected to the United States Senate. Now, I know that there are lots of ways to talk about transactions like this involving public officials - quid pro quo, etc., but I prefer to call a crook a crook and just say that we're dealing with good, old fashioned, public corruption here.

I am sure that Barack Obama will be able to distinguish between his acts here and the actions that landed Randy Cunningham in jail. But like Wolfe, I am curious about what he would have to say. Of course that would require a media willing to ask tough questions, and probably be branded as a racist for their trouble.

We noted back in 2006 that her salary nearly tripling , oddly followed the election of her husband to the United States Senate:

How much is she scraping by on?

According to a tax return released by the senator this week, the promotion nearly tripled her income from the hospitals to $316,962 in 2005 from $121,910 in 2004.

Her income coincidentally jumped when her husband was elected to the United States Senate. She handles "community outreach" for the University of Chicago Hospitals, which does indeed sound like vital work, right up there with open heart surgery.

Maybe we are all supposed to hope that Obama, who rose through the Chicago political machine, really is different. After all, this could be just coincindence.

[proudtobeanamerican1]

Wowzer!

[Hildy]

unbelievable...the problem with Hillary is she can’t bring this up, because he can fight back with a million more examples of her doing this kind of nonsense. They’re all crooks. Our political class has become America’s new organized crime families.

[ANGGAPO]

Good old Chicago's politics will never change. But so soon.

[InterceptPoint]

According to a tax return released by the senator this week, the promotion nearly tripled her income from the hospitals to $316,962 in 2005 from $121,910 in 2004.

What did she do for the hospitals for all this dough?

[Joiseydude]

Nothing to see here, move along.

[infantrywhooah]

And there are actually people that want this scumbag to run this country. Idiots.

[Pontiac]

Barack Obama, allegedly decent guy and agent of "change" in Washington, requested an earmark in 2006 for $1 million taxpayer dollars for the hospital where his wife works.

He got that done in the second year of his first term, wow he’s good.

[stockpirate]

The writter must be a racist, otherwise he would not mention something like this about BO. scarasm off

[Jeff Head]

Not only are they our abject ideological enemies...they are fleecing us for beaucoup bucks in the process.

Barack, who is Hussein, Obama, is the absolute apex of the domestic enemy, subversive, anti-American movement in this country.

Polished in a prepared speech, charismatic in his presentation, nonetheless, underneath it all lies a smoldering cauldron of marxism, bigotry, and black liberation theology that is the enemy of America and its traditional values.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS AND SUPPORT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[True Republican Patriot]

B.O. Hussein’s Stench continues to smell more and more like Raw Sewage. Under Freedom of Information, we must demand Mrs. B.O.’s Position Descriptions before the obscene increase and the one that supposidly would warrant that perverted increase! What do the Physicians who devote their lives to this Hospital think of this Obscene Political Fraud?? B.O. looks more and more like the initials for BAD ODER! We are always cautioned to administer a smell test, and this candidate reeks! At least B.O. has a nice Mansion in place, should he win, for the second WH, just LEFT in the center of Chicago’s political quagmire of sewage.

[BenLurkin]

Typical democrat.

[Travis McGee]

Great campaign ad here.

[coolerking]

Obama can be President of my country if he wants. So can anyone else for that matter. It’s not likely he’ll reach the White House.

Cooler
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Declare Virtual Independence

[cyberella]

McCAIN- BECAUSE THE ALTERNATIVE IS UNTHINABLE

[EternalVigilance]

"Community outreach," Chicago-style...

[Stegall Tx]

Kinda makes you wonder just how much “community outreach” is going to be funded in the universal health care he is touting.

[angelsonmyside]

BTTT

[Beckwith]

What did she do for the hospitals for all this dough?

She was the hospital's "diversity" person.

[topfile]

Isn't Michelle Obama the kind of Corporate
salary increase “abuser” that Barack intends
to stop? I'm sure they'll be many MSM folks
offering up excuses for poor ol’ Obama on this
matter.