Michelle Obama sucks it up

Powerline ^ | March 01, 2008 | Staff

[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.

[The_Republican]

Milkshake?

[Will88]

“We should pay the Obama campaign to have her keep talking. Bahama Mama Drama.”

I want her to be given her own radio talk show, three hours a day, five days a week, until November. Needs to be widely syndicated.

[societygirl]

Go back to where the came from? CAPITAL idea.

[societygirl]

OHMYGOD, how fun would THAT be? I hope some nutcase wouldn’t try to shoot her, though. She could seriously piss someone off.

[Red_Devil 232]

You have hit the nail on the head! She grew up in a well to do middle clas famaily in a nice neighborhood. She was a step above most of the blacks and a considerable few of the whites she associated with while growing up. When she went to Princeton she hit a brick wall that most middle class kids hit when they enter an elite school. They find out they don’t quite fit in with the money classed kids.

[LADY J]

"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."

Could be some pillow talk could convince her husband to produce some legislation to send some goodies their way.

[Trailerpark Badass]

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.

Funny!

[dennisw]

And I have been saying for months, that this loud-mouthed Ghetto Gal will destroy her husband, just as surely as Judi destroyed Giuliani.

I'm praying the Obama campaign doesn't rein her in
Let Michelle be Michelle!

It's McCain or Hussein in November

Michelle Obama, right, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is introduced by her older brother, Craig Robinson, at an Obama campaign rally in Warwick, R. I., in this Feb. 20, 2008, file photo. T Robinson is Obama's most prominent salesman, cheerleader and fundraiser in the upcoming presidential primary state of Rhode Island; he can speak about the candidate with personal knowledge and authority, and has mastered skills as an Ivy League coach, which lend themselves to a political campaign, such as giving pep talks, recruiting, raising money and giving media interviews

(I think she can beat up Barrack if she wants to. She's taller and tougher)

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle walk from the Beulah Shoesmith Elementary School in Chicago, after casting their votes in the Illinois Primary, February 5, 2008.(Jason Reed/Reuters)

[windsorknot]

I love it when Michelle does her Cynthia McKinney impersonation.

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: Mrs. Obama takes a swipe at Chelsea Clinton.

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[Deo et Patria]

You’re not touching her back door with a 10 foot pole?

LOL

[dennisw]

You go girl! I'll bet she can beat up that wimpy Obama guy
She's taller and out weighs him

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama and his wife Michelle celebrate with supporters on Super Tuesday in Chicago. Hillary Clinton and Obama dug in for a protracted slog for the Democratic White House nomination after battling to a brutal draw in their coast-to-coast Super Tuesday showdown. (AFP/Paul J. Richards

[Rummyfan]

She's a depressing speciman of a post-modern class of victim -- demanding, whining, self-absorbed, self-pitying, and infantile.

The woman's an embarassment: to herself, her husband, Princeton and Harvard and our nation.

[societygirl]

OHMYGOD, what a loser. And the media is trying to compare this skank To Jackie Kennedy? Jackie just rolled in her grave, and probably out of her coffin.

[societygirl]

Ugly clothes, too.

[pandoraou812]

Her full name....Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama.

I notice she doen't use it.

[dennisw]

Its like some outer space aliens just walked out of their flying saucer and said they are going to start ruling the world

[dennisw]

She looks like those fat black chicks in college who thought they were gorgeous... and all the white chicks laughed a them.

This is the deal SC.
She's very tall (taller than Barrack) and good looking so people defer to her and actually place some credence in her Oprah style nonsense

If she had average looks she would be called a loon. Which is what she really is. An amped up high powered lunatic. A diversity hack for the Chicago machine. Michelle has been getting away with murder for years and it's all because her looks dazzle stupid white liberals

Michelle's dad was cog in the Daley machine. Had a patronage job in the Chicago water department. But at least that is real work. Michelle has had various "diversity" jobs for a long time and they pay well. Upwards of $300,000