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Another issue, above and beyond the fact that Michelle Obama took the place of a more qualified white or Asian applicant, is that, because of the very existence of affirmative action, a black person who is admitted into a prestigious college will never be able to prove that he or she could have gained such admission strictly because of qualifications, irrespective of skin color. They will always be viewed, just like the boss’s son is viewed, as someone who did not make it on his own. Until the unconstitutional abomination that is affirmative action is finally removed from our system, the author’s word—”meritocracy,” will remain an illusion.

I never thought that I would see a spouse of a presidential candidate who was more of a radical, narcissistic, arrogant, hubristic, self-entitled, and maddening solipsist than Hilary Clinton. To the nation’s dismay, I think we have found her in Michelle Obama. She is the loose cannon Benito Mussolini face of liberal fascism that Barack Hussein Obama is so careful to hide. Barack Obama is more practiced at keeping the mask up. But in the liberal Hyde Park ghetto that she lives in Chicago, attending cocktail parties with her coterie of liberal U of C academics, Black South Side DemonRat pols, public sector sinecures, NGO flacks and liberal Sun Times columnists, EVERBODY she knows thinks and feels this way.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama’s resentments toward her country and its citizens were undoubtedly nourished by the effect that her set-aside affirmative action appointment to Princeton had on her. It would appear that she was unable to reconcile her black cultural nationalist/separatist philosophy with her tenure at Princeton, a place for which she was wholly unsuited by dint of preparation and talent, if her poorly written senior thesis is any indication. Rather than appreciating the AA slack cut her by the lib profs, she chose to lash out at what she saw as condescension and maybe some pity from them. She felt that she didn’t belong and she probably didn’t, but her racial sensitivity antenna read racism and bigotry rather that contemptuous pity. Her artificially inflated ego couldn’t stand that and she has mutated an enormous shoulder chip ever since.
Now we can only hope that the Barack He who must not be middle named Obama campaign does not muzzle her and deprive the GOP of a priceless asset. But from what I hear that is a dangerous proposition for any worker in that campaign. She appears to be as unmanageable and ornery as the Hildabeast.
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Perhaps Michelle would be more readily "accepted" if she had achieved enough academically on her own to attend Princeton, instead of--as she has admitted herself--relying on racial preferences to get in.

Exactly. I come from very a un-Ivy League background (Southwest Missouri farmer with a State U. degree) but I attended an Ivy League law school. I occasionally felt out of place, e.g. the first time I heard a discussion regarding NYC taxi cab medallions--I didn't know what a taxi cab medallion was. But I never doubted that I deserved to be there, because I got in on my merits--my LSAT and GPA were above the school averages. After a while, I also noticed that my classmates from NYC, Boston, DC, etc. were much more ignorant of flyover county than we flyover types were about the East Coast.

Montag813 wrote: "Perhaps Michelle would be more readily "accepted" if she had achieved enough academically on her own to attend Princeton, instead of--as she has admitted herself--relying on racial preferences to get in. " 4 posted on Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:31:59 PM by montag813

So you think had she been in the 99th percentile, reading Derrida, Lacan, and Gramsci at Princeton, writing a thesis on a "Lacanian Interpretation of Toni Morrison" with adequate footnotes in original languages, there would be less attitude?

Liberals can only lament that they were deprived of an African-American Susan Sontag, issuing top-tier cultural edicts from the White House, with the full backing of UNESCO, Rhodes, Guggenheim, and a Rockefeller Fellowship in Bellagio. What will they do? Certainly, there is an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters around somewhere that a secret handshake could cook up? Bill Clinton snookered a few.