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Michelle Obama Says Colleges Must Serve the Under-Served: “Just Look at Me’
Cybercast News Service ^ | January 17, 2014 - 10:02 AM | Susan Jones

Posted on 01/19/2014 4:26:39 PM PST by Olog-hai

First lady Michelle Obama says in the years ahead, she’ll spend more and more of her time trying to get “underserved” young people into college.

Speaking at the White House on Thursday, she told a gathering of college administrators they must do more to encourage poor kids to enroll in their schools—an effort that will benefit the schools as well:

So believe me, these will be some of the best alumni you could possibly ask for, because after everything these kids will have overcome to get into college and get through college, believe me, they will have all the skills they need to run our businesses and our labs and to teach in our classrooms and to lead our communities.

Just look at me…and the countless success stories from the organizations and schools represented here in this room. That’s how we will win—this country. We will win by tapping the full potential of all of our young people, so that we can grow our economy and move this country forward. …


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: college; lookatme; michelleobama; narcissism; underserved
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To: Olog-hai

Underserved = lazy and looking for someone to do the work for them.


21 posted on 01/19/2014 4:51:14 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Olog-hai

The under served unfortunately, are the unintelligent...


22 posted on 01/19/2014 4:53:27 PM PST by babygene ( .)
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To: Olog-hai
“Just Look at Me’

Do we have to?


23 posted on 01/19/2014 4:55:37 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: MuttTheHoople

I see what you did there! :)


24 posted on 01/19/2014 4:56:49 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Olog-hai

Is she already done pimping Husseincare?


25 posted on 01/19/2014 4:59:32 PM PST by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe they should build more prison cells and serve them right!


26 posted on 01/19/2014 5:00:30 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: Olog-hai
What happens when the so-called "under-served" graduate college with undeserved degrees and then under-perform in jobs?

Will the government force businesses to hire these college students or face retaliation by the IRS and SEC? Will businesses be prevented from firing under-performing employees because of their race, regardless of their qualifications for the job?

-PJ

27 posted on 01/19/2014 5:01:31 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Olog-hai
Just look at me.
28 posted on 01/19/2014 5:04:21 PM PST by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: Olog-hai

“”But then I had an opportunity to participate in a three-week on-campus orientation program that helped me get a feel for the rhythm of college life, and once school started, I discovered the campus cultural center, the Third World Center, where I found students and staff who came from families and communities that were similar to my own.””

THIRD WORLD CENTER? And right there she got the idea she would pair up with a like minded person and together they would see to it that the United States became a third world country! Great work, Michelle. We’re so proud of you - BARF!

Her college experience was soooooo much different from every other freshman, don’t you know? Me - Me - Me - Me!!!!


29 posted on 01/19/2014 5:11:52 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: JPG

What man would dare to go to sleep at night with that in the same house?


30 posted on 01/19/2014 5:13:20 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Olog-hai

If our high schools did a better job, colleges could be more selective.


31 posted on 01/19/2014 5:24:06 PM PST by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Olog-hai
How many people know anyone when they first arrive at college? How many people know where all the buildings are? How many know what courses they will sign up for before they get a course catalog? Furthermore, how many people need a special navigators to help them with that?

MO must be a complete idiot! It took me one day to pick my courses, find my dorm and make some friends. They pass out maps of the campus like confetti on enrollment day and there are dozens of people around to answer questions.

32 posted on 01/19/2014 5:35:46 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: TigersEye

To further compound the stupidity of her comment, her older brother had already been a student there for two years.


33 posted on 01/19/2014 5:38:55 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: nascarnation
I know! Wouldn't that have been nice for 98% of us to have a resource like that walking in? lol

Maybe her brother was no help because he avoided her like the plague!?! Frankly I can't think of a place where there is more help available than a college campus. New students, older students, professors, student teachers, admin. staff, dorm staff, and on and on and on... hundreds of people all around nearly 24/7.

Unless of course you've got a humongous stick up your butt and can't stand the idea of asking whitey a question.

34 posted on 01/19/2014 5:50:05 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: MuttTheHoople
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35 posted on 01/19/2014 5:56:04 PM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Olog-hai

Liberals - always demanding someone else clean up their mess. They screw up disadvantaged families, the economy, jobs and impose high taxes on us all. More people would be able to go to college if it were not for liberal policies.


36 posted on 01/19/2014 6:00:03 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Ann Archy

Mooch was in Princeton and wrote a dissertation on how mean and anti black Princeton was, how she hated her classmates.

This is one reason she was never proud of our country, she didn’t consider it her country.

Never mind that she isn’t and never was Princeton material, from what I understand if it wasn’t for affirmative action and tuition assistance a middle class poor student like her who didn’t belong in the Ivy League wouldn’t be going to a school far above not only her parents station, but far above her scholastic record. She was Schtupped by everyone just for quotas and diversity.

I have read excerpts of her writings about her college days and she wasn’t miss congeniality even when she was young.

This is a woman who had a $340,000k per year no show job for a Chicago hospital, still bitter she takes it out on us by taking million dollar vacations several times per year.
She never smiles always wears a sour puss.


37 posted on 01/19/2014 6:02:10 PM PST by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Olog-hai

Lower the damned requirements!

Fill these institutions with underqualified slackers!

Do it on funds stripped from the productive!

Power to the people!


38 posted on 01/19/2014 7:12:23 PM PST by glock rocks (If you like your health plan, you're a racist !)
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To: Ray76

Sounds like a typical college freshman to me, but most are well informed as to what size sheets to buy. Poor pitiful Mooch. I can’t wait until these 2 have to go back to being peasants like the rest of us.


39 posted on 01/19/2014 7:34:52 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: Bryan24
"She was on the honor roll for four years, took advanced placement classes, a member of the National Honor Society and served as student council treasurer. Michelle graduated in 1981 as the salutatorian of her class."

It must be very much embarrassing for the school and the rest of her class if what she now asks us to believe is true:
"I didn’t know how to pick the right classes or find the right buildings. I didn’t even bring the right size sheets for my dorm room bed."

40 posted on 01/19/2014 7:35:05 PM PST by frog in a pot (We are all "frogs in a pot" now. How and when will we real Americans jump out?)
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