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Michelle Obama sucks it up
Powerline ^ | March 01, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 03/01/2008 9:18:45 AM PST by jdm

Now we know why, in her adult life, Michelle Obama has never been proud of America until now. As Byron York reports, her life here is such a struggle. And not because of the demands of the political campaign. As she puts it, "I don't know what I would do, even if we weren't running; I don't know what I would do as a professional without having that kind of support system [provided by her mother who lives nearby]." It is that support system, she confesses, that "keeps me sane."

It's easy to see her point. The Obamas, according to Michelle, spend roughly $10,000 a year just on programs for their kids -- "piano and dance and sports supplements" and "summer programs and so on and so forth." And, having had the audacity to quit "corporate America" the Obamas must do so on Barack's salary and book money, Michelle's salary of $317,000 (up from the $122,000 she made before Barack was elected to the Senate), and whatever she can scrape together from serving on corporate boards (her abandonment of corporate America apparently has not been complete).

But even with everything the Obamas are providing for their kids, there's "a constant sense of guilt." "It's guilt," Michelle emphasizes, "feeling guilty all the time." The guilt, as far as I can tell, stems from having to pass her kids back and forth with Barack: "We do split that day, okay, you've got [the kids], I've got them."

Back at Princeton, apparently, no one told her life would be such a struggle, although she did sense (incorrectly) that after college she might only be allowed "on the periphery of society." Still, someone should have told her that her student loans would leave her trapped inside corporate American, or at least on some of its boards.

Michelle is a tough cookie, though. She's not looking for our sympathy. "Don't cry for me," she tells the strangers in her lower middle class audience in Zanesville, Ohio after explaining just how difficult it is for her to "keep it all together."

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It would be unfair, of course, to blame Barack Obama for the views and outlook of his wife (except to the extent he endorses or defends them). I've seen no evidence that Barack is a complainer. And, nothwithstanding his lack of the experience normally associated with a run at the presidency, Obama's sense of entitlement does not seem significantly to exceed that of your average presidential candidate.

But Michelle Obama is still instructive. She's a depressing speciman of a post-modern class of victim -- demanding, whining, self-absorbed, self-pitying, and infantile.

UPDATE: Given recent developments in the Obama campaign, though, it's possible that Michelle Obama is enormously satisfied with her life and has absolutely no trouble "keeping it all together." At this moment, a white male campaign adviser may be telling a men's club that Michelle's whining is just rhetoric intended to make Barack competitive among Hillary Clinton's female supporters.


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1 posted on 03/01/2008 9:18:47 AM PST by jdm
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To: jdm

Does this Evita sing too?


2 posted on 03/01/2008 9:19:58 AM PST by csmusaret (John McCain is a self rightous little prick.)
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To: jdm

Michelle is whacked.


3 posted on 03/01/2008 9:20:13 AM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: jdm
Michelle Obama sucks it up
4 posted on 03/01/2008 9:21:49 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberals: can't live with them, can't ship them to Canada.)
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To: jdm

what a pitiful excuse of a possible first lady...


6 posted on 03/01/2008 9:24:39 AM PST by tioga (Beware: conservative with back to the wall. Proceed with extreme caution.)
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To: jdm

I’ve been an electrical engineer for more than 25 years. I’ve held an MSEE degree for more than 10 years.

I’ve never made more than 80% of what Michelle Obama made before she got the “hubby’s a Senator” raise.

And you know what? I’ve always considered myself lucky. Guess that makes me a chump squared; e to the power of chump.


7 posted on 03/01/2008 9:24:40 AM PST by Steely Tom (Steely's First Law of the Main Stream Media: if it doesn't advance the agenda, it's not news.)
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To: jdm
I just hope the people from Obama’s camp never suggest she tone it down. I want her talking as much as possible and heard by as many people as possible.
8 posted on 03/01/2008 9:25:08 AM PST by jennyjenny
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To: jdm
Sweet jumpin' beans. If I made as much money as Michelle Obama and I whined even half as much as her, I would hope someone close to me would slap me aside the head!

What a bitter, hypocritical shrew.

9 posted on 03/01/2008 9:25:53 AM PST by Digital Sniper (Hello, "Undocumented Immigrant." I'm an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent.")
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She entered college thinking she was all that and found out she wasn’t even close so what did she do? she blamed it on society. A problem that is wide spread, “don’t look inside you might find things you don’t like, look outside for some one to blame, it’s easier and you can go on believing the legend you’ve set up for yourself. This is a possible first lady? There's a lot of baggage and a score to settle if you ask me.
10 posted on 03/01/2008 9:25:59 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Id rather be hunting with dick than driving with ted)
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To: jdm

Clarence Thomas probably wouldn’t be allowed to come in through her back door.


11 posted on 03/01/2008 9:26:19 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: jdm

Thank the Lord that she does not quit corporate America to take up teaching.


12 posted on 03/01/2008 9:26:29 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: jdm

Poor thing! She is just the little trooper!


13 posted on 03/01/2008 9:27:33 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: jdm

Michelle Obama is ridiculous, but so is this article for criticizing her because she makes a lot of money. Are conservatives now against people doing well financially? Are we going to resort to populism and socialism to criticize her? Good for her, she makes a lot of money.


14 posted on 03/01/2008 9:28:29 AM PST by mngran2
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Meechelle still isn’t free....she has a boss to report to, a husband who wants clean socks, a house to make sure the cleaning lady took care of, kids who want to be read to and are sooooooo demanding.......it’s tough, man.


15 posted on 03/01/2008 9:29:09 AM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: JackRyanCIA

She appears to be just two shots of tequila away from ‘going ghetto’ on Hillary.


16 posted on 03/01/2008 9:29:18 AM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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Maybe the Secret Service could take care of all that kind of crap for the Obamas. Wonder if Michelle makes cookies for the kids, or just does pancakes?


17 posted on 03/01/2008 9:29:44 AM PST by mathurine
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To: jdm
She's a depressing speciman of a post-modern class of victim -- demanding, whining, self-absorbed, self-pitying, and infantile.

...but otherwise she's a pretty nice person.

18 posted on 03/01/2008 9:30:23 AM PST by Jorge
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To: Steely Tom
I’ve never made more than 80% of what Michelle Obama made before she got the “hubby’s a Senator” raise.

She received this from the University of Chicago where here job was to basically do nothing. Meanwhile, the university, ranked as the stingiest in the US as for as giving aid to students, has raised the cost of going there to $48,000+ per year.

19 posted on 03/01/2008 9:31:14 AM PST by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd (PBUH---Pigblood be upon him))
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To: jdm

WHERE ARE THEY getting their campaign money?
I should say what bundlers?
Seems it’s the Dem way of doing tricks


20 posted on 03/01/2008 9:31:49 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (I heard it on the grapevine and saw it in the paper, so it must be true.)
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