Posted on 05/06/2008 1:01:43 PM PDT by The_Republican
I know, I know, it's a Vast Wright-Wing Conspiracy...
It appears that no one in the Obama campaign has the nerve to speak frankly with Mrs. Obama about how her stump speech might be improved.
Oh NO you DIDINT just tell me my stump speech needs improved! < /headmovingsidetoside >
She's the young pretty Aunt Esther.
Michelle Obama’s bitter because she doesn’t have as much money as Oprah.
Michelle is a bigger problem for Barry than Wright.
Is it me or is this women the wife from h@ll?
And Moms Mabley on the inside... but not so funny
In order to be a Democrat, you must see yourself as being a victim of the evil, patriarchal society that is the United States.
“I’m____________(fill in the blank). That’s why I’m a victim”.
Options are: female, Black, Hispanic, gay, fat...and numerous other designations.
Michelle’s cute.
“White”, “male”, and “conservative” are not eligible designations, though, right?
She’s bitter because she knows she didn’t earn on her own skills and intelligence anything she has in life - her education or her job. She knows she only has them because of her skin color.
Thomas Sowell wrote a good piece on why affirmative action harms the recipients, and she’s a poster child for his words.
http://www.popecenter.org/recommended_reading/article.html?id=1329
In general, Sowell writes, preferential admissions mismatch the minority student with the university, creating an artificial failure.
This phenomenon has several effects. First, quite competent minority students are admitted into schools whose normally admitted students’ learning paces are somewhat beyond their own, resulting in what Sowell calls “wholly needless failures among highly qualified students” in the name of racial representation. Furthermore, as is stated in a Wall Street Journal article excerpted by Sowell, it leads to “a widespread if rarely stated perception that black students somehow lack what it takes to make the grade.”
As top schools overdraw their available pool of minority students, they must dip into the students credentially suited for lower-tier colleges.
“The problems of mismatching and artificial failing proceed on down the academic pecking order,” Sowell writes. “Nationwide, 74 percent of black students have failed to graduate, five years after entering college.” Sowell argues that most of those failures are artificial, caused by affirmative action’s mismatching the students with the schools.
When some schools recognize this problem, Sowell explains, they seek to rectify it with grade inflation (which he calls “affirmative grading”) for minority students. This move leads to the perception mentioned in the Wall Street Journal and also causes highly qualified minority students to defend their academic reputation needlessly to teachers and employers.
• High attrition rates of minority students on “white campuses” is evidence of racism. Again, Sowell points to mismatching students with the university’s standards. At Berkeley, Sowell found that only 22 percent of Hispanic students admitted under preferences had graduated five years later, whereas over half the Hispanic students admitted normally had graduated in the same period. He found similar figures for black students. “If the all-purpose explanation is racism,” Sowell asks, “then why did this racism have such radically different effects on people of the same race with different test scores?”
• Tests such as the SAT do not measure minority students’ abilities fairly, so basing admission on them unfairly discriminates against minority students. Sowell explains that this argument is 20 years old, thus there is empirical evidence by which to judge it. Examining that evidence, Sowell finds that “SAT scores have in fact proven empirically to be better predictors (of academic performance) than high school grades for blacks.”
• The “new racism” that started cropping up in the 1980s and ’90s means affirmative action is even more necessary because without it minorities might be further discriminated against. Sowell posits that the “new racism” itself is a derivative of affirmative action and the double standards (i.e., “affirmative grading”) of which “neither black nor white students are unaware.” According to Sowell, the double standard created resentment among whites and blacks, and even campuses with no history of racial unrest were suddenly inundated with waves of tension and activism. Relatively poor academic performance by the mismatched minority students served to instill them with a sense of intellectual inferiority, and colleges unwilling to admit their culpability blamed the “vestiges” of racism. Sowell shows that many graduating seniors reported increases in racial tensions over their years on campus. Saying that a “growing vestige” is a contradiction in terms, Sowell explains that colleges “wholly ignore the very possibility that the policies and practices of the colleges themselves may have been responsible for the hostile racial climate on campus.”
“Michelle is a bigger problem for Barry than Wright.”
Yep.
If he’s elected — she will be running the country!
bump for later
Those mean whities are fish eyed foooools.
ROTFLMAO!!!
STE=Q
Yes! This is another vote for one, get the other for free situation.
Scenario:
Obama keeps the nomination despite Clintonian machinations.
He loses to McCain.
Reaction: America is obviously still too racist to elect a black man.
It appears that no one in the Obama campaign has the nerve to speak frankly with Mrs. Obama about how her stump speech might be improved.And the thought better not even enter their mind!
This bitter hateful manipulative domineering racist woman is more dangerous than Hilliary.
I think she has something in her lockbox...
In a former life, she was Queen of Ethiopia!
Just out of curiosity, why is Obama called Barry. I have looked but can’t find the reason why. I’m a little behind the curve on this. Thanx in advance.
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