Posted on 02/24/2008 9:14:31 AM PST by rellimpank
The dress, a purple shift, is almost ludicrously simple. The pearls around her neck are fakes, each one the size of a gobstopper, and deliberately so.
It is clear that the woman gazing out from the cover of Newsweek magazine has a message for anyone caring to glance at the news stand.
Yes, Michelle Obama is a glamorous lawyer with a big salary, a bigger house and a husband with one hand on the Presidency, but never forget that this is also the little black girl from Chicago who overcame the odds to change the face of American politics.
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Didn't her salary go from $100,000/year to $300,000/year when Hubby got elected to the US Senate?
That should be a priority!! If it was a Republican doing it - there would be hell to pay in the MSM!! Maybe it should be a FR project...but when to do it?? Before he deepsixes the Hildebeast or after?
Who should be contacted about this?
btt
I would also think the Obamas are well connected to the Chicago Machine, and on friendly terms with the local racial agitators as a result. $300K is CHEAP for the amount of hassle she probably keeps away from the place
But the non-legacy, middle-class students were generally very bright, based on the SAT range I see that's needed to get into the Ivy's. Meanwhile, according to The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education:
For admission to the very highest ranked, brand-name schools such as Princeton or MIT, applicants need scores of 750 to be considered for admission. Yet, as we shall see, only a minute percentage of black test takers score at these levels. Thus, if high-ranking colleges and universities were to abandon their policies of race-sensitive admissions, they will be choosing their first-year students from an applicant pool in which there will be practically no blacks.Yet places like Harvard have student bodies whose black percentage is close to the percentage in the general populationLet's be more specific about the SAT racial gap among high-scoring applicants. In 2005, 153,132 African Americans took the SAT test. They made up 10.4 percent of all SAT test takers. But only 1,132 African-American college-bound students scored 700 or above on the math SAT and only 1,205 scored at least 700 on the verbal SAT. Nationally, more than 100,000 students of all races scored 700 or above on the math SAT and 78,025 students scored 700 or above on the verbal SAT. Thus, in this top-scoring category of all SAT test takers, blacks made up only 1.1 percent of the students scoring 700 or higher on the math test and only 1.5 percent of the students scoring 700 or higher on the verbal SAT.
If we eliminate Asians and other minorities from the statistics and compare just white and black students, we find that 5.8 percent of all white SAT test takers scored 700 or above on the verbal portion of the test. But only 0.79 percent of all black SAT test takers scored at this level. Therefore, whites were more than seven times as likely as blacks to score 700 or above on the verbal SAT. Overall, there are more than 39 times as many whites as blacks who scored at least 700 on the verbal SAT.
If we raise the top-scoring threshold to students scoring 750 or above on both the math and verbal SAT — a level equal to the mean score of students entering the nation's most selective colleges such as Harvard, Princeton, and CalTech — we find that in the entire country 244 blacks scored 750 or above on the math SAT and 363 black students scored 750 or above on the verbal portion of the test. Nationwide, 33,841 students scored at least 750 on the math test and 30,479 scored at least 750 on the verbal SAT. Therefore, black students made up 0.7 percent of the test takers who scored 750 or above on the math test and 1.2 percent of all test takers who scored 750 or above on the verbal section
In order to make their numbers, the Ivys have to admit Blacks who are not just somewhat below the ability level of their white admissions, but dramatically lower, low enough that they simply cannot compete in the same classroom according to the same standards
From the familial background, looks like she was almost as
local-politically-connected as another more recent “humble-beginnings” sort named Bill Clinton.
Please accept my apology.
“Wish the Clintons could be locked away...”
Well when Hilterly loses ... she won;t have the guts to run again and if she does she’ll be crying all the time.
Heard the good political news?
Get a load of this:
RALPH NADER is going to run again!!!
He spoiled the vote for GORE.
Ralph will further split the liberal vote.
Bill and Hill are Boomers-—the Obamas are, to echo the insight offered by Mark Levin, nothin’ but YUPPIES!!!
“She, in contrast, was obliged to take out loans to pay her way and this rankled, as she revealed in a 1985 thesis.”
And as all white people know, we don’t have to take out loans nor pay for college, period. Only blacks have to, just anothe example of The Man putting them down.
You’re right, of course. She gets paid a lot of money, like Hillary used to in Arkansas, because of her connections and, in her case, because she is black.
I suspect it is a lot easier to tell a black Chicagoan they have no legal basis for a lawsuit if the lawyer delivering the bad news is black.
Can anyone alleviate my curiosity if this is indeed correct? In Chapter 1 of Michelle's thesis she states clearly that she is about to become a black Alumnus. So is she using the masculine singular of Alumni? In fact she should have used Alumnae... Paragraph 2 first sentence chapter 1. Yes I have too much spare time , shut up.
Speaking of Black Panther...anyone know if the New Black Panther organizaion has endorsed Obama?
Speaking of Black Panther...anyone know if the New Black Panther organizaion has endorsed Obama?
Not all that and no bag of chips.
Bless her heart.
It seems that she looks like an angry woman and why? Because when she went to Princton she was probably exposed to whites for the first time and felt like a minority, coming from a black neighborhood? Humm Really, if she came from a nice neighborhood and had good childhood where her parents were hands on, what is her excuse for being this angry looking woman?
Great poing and very well said.
Michelle Obama and the children might be the only black members in Obama family, Barack Black or just dark skin?
I read yesterday the Headlines said he snob some black organization, or did that organization snob him!
In some Harlem precinct he received very low or mo votes which never made the headlines.
Obama’s Not Muslim — But Muslims Love Him Like He Was
Delegates at a US-Islamic forum voiced support on Monday for U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama, although some warned against expecting any radical policy change irrespective of who captures the White House.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/02/20/obamas-not-muslim-muslims-love-him-he-was
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