I get the feeling that it pains Mrs. O's sensibilities to have to talk down to the 'riff-raff.'
Oh, that's silly. "Bankrupt the economy," indeed. Is the author a Democrat?
Although Ms. Obama is indeed a flaming hypocrite, she's not totally wrong about career advice. Nursing, for example, is a lucrative profession, and many grants and scholarships are available for nursing students because of the demand for nurses.
In addition, many women have found that the corporate lifestyle was not what they really wanted, and found themselves enslaved to their student loans. (Men, too, but she was addressing women.) Of course, most people don't have the option of becoming race-hustling political demagogues with rich real-estate speculator "friends" to help pay for everything ... but she *does* have some points.
Could it be both? She could be talking down to the “peasants” and be unaware of where that “magic bean” money comes from. So Barry and Michelle want to remake the United States into an ACORN-like, Saul Alinsky-esque ghetto? The EU and China must be laughing up their sleeves.
Yeah what we really need are more liberal teachers and social workers! SHEESH! Great way to ruin an economy!!!
So Michelle’s daughters are going to be community workers?
She probably meant that forgotten groups in our society needs some human capital - best of the best if you will.
Right now whoever can eascape the ghetto, does. However, that doesn’t solve the problems in long term. Some high quality individuals who stay and serve as Teachers and Organizers can make the difference.
I know—she’s encouraging them to get married, have children, and be stay at home moms. :)
Rush said on his show Friday that she was making $121k/yr in 2004 but after he announced the run for President, her salary was raised to $300+K/yr (from memory). I hate that corporate America treats her so poorly.
Do something truly useless, get a government job.
I’m really tired of reading about the “sacrifices” she’s made. If she’s spending “one-third of the median household income in Zanesville — on piano, dance, and other lessons for her two children,” she has nothing to complain about.
Student loans into middle age? Oooooh. Let me get out my little violin and play a sad song for Michelle.
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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.
M.O.’s diatribe against letting your kids go into careers like hedge fund manager or corporate law were direct hits at Hillary because Hillary was a corporate lawyer and Chelsea works for a hedge fund. MO was saying that Hillary is selfish and raised her daughter to be selfish.
Unless of course, Hillary gets elected, in which case "the WOMAN" kept them down.
Cheers!