Posted on 05/01/2009 9:19:27 AM PDT by lewisglad
Michelle Obama, February 2008:
Obama explains that she and her husband made the choice to give up lucrative jobs in favor of community service. “We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do,” she tells the women. “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond.”
Michelle Obama, April 2009:
Michelle Obama has taken casual to a haute new level.
While volunteering Wednesday at a D.C. food bank, the First Lady sported her usual J.Crew cardigan, a pair of utilitarian capri pants and, on her feet, a sneaky splurge: trainers that go for $540.
That’s right: These sneakers - suede, with grosgrain ribbon laces and metallic pink toe caps - are made by French design house Lanvin, one of fashion’s hottest labels. They come in denim and satin versions, and have been a brisk seller all spring.
They’re out of stock at posh Meatpacking District boutique Jeffrey, and Barneys New York boasts a limited selection of the sneaks, which are a cult favorite among fashionistas.
It’s likely Michelle got hers through Ikram, the Chicago retailer that often outfits her.
It goes without saying that a Republican First Lady who showed up at a food bank during a recession wearing $540 sneakers would never hear the end of it, let alone one who had lectured voters on learning to make do with less. But you know, it goes deeper than that. Remember how Barack Obama relentlessly mocked George W. Bush, in the tone of a petulant teenager who can’t believe what Dad told him to do, for advising Americans to “go shopping” after September 11? Well, President Bush was absolutely in the right: the nation needed reassuring, and it needed to both sustain the consumer confidence and consumer demand that are the engines of our economy, and demonstrate to the world that we don’t change our routines to satisfy terrorists.
Now, with consumer demand in the worst slump in most of our living memory, one of the things we need most of all from the White House is reassurance that it’s OK to - you guessed it - go shopping. But President Obama, who has tiptoed up to that line a few times, can’t quite bring himself to sound like Dad now that he’s the one in the driver’s seat. So, Michelle shops, while consumer demand drops. And then what happens? We get Joe Biden giving us the “we’re all gonna diiiiiieeeeee” alarm on the Today Show, telling people that he’d advise his family to avoid malls, planes, and trains. It’s OK if you go, mind you, but not Joe’s family. So much for projecting calm in a crisis.
Somehow, no matter what the state of the U.S. economy, the Michelle Obamas in and around the government will always manage to get their fancy French sneakers. I don’t begrudge them that - but I do wish they acted as if they felt the same way about the rest of us.
Insanity.
If you don’t get a good paying job how are you going to be able to spend over $500 for sneakers?
When was that? The Obama's having a real job I mean? Michelle received a huge token salary in exchange for some taxpayers money Barack arranged to be granted, and Obama also never had a real job, other than 'community service work through ACORN which was also taxpayer funded.
democrats = hypocrisy
“Barack and encourage people to live with less...”
Socialist pablum. Lefties will love it, but it’s the same kind of garbage Geithner was spewing when he said people will learn to care about what they DO and not what they make.
Scary.
Holy sh!t. It doesn't get any riper than this. She had a sinecure as "diversity director" for the Chicago hospital system that paid $380,000 a year solely because of her gender, race, and above all her political connections. She can go back to it any time. Meanwhile she gets the best of everything at taxpayer expense. What does she need a salary for "Public service" my a$$ Self service at the public expense is more like it.
Those shoes are seriously ugly. Michelle’s taste is as bad as her judgement.
Fo’ shizzle!
Da b*tch got da bling!
When da b*tch fonna’ get da gol’ teef?
If you move out of the money-making industry you give up your right to complain about low pay.
Michelle Obama lives in free government housing, and gets a welfare check which working American taxpayers pay for. She can afford expensive shoes.
Need to see some of the caustic comments made about the Sarah Palin wardrobe...I wonder if Michelle will get beat up in the same way on the Today Show, etc. etc.
“Don’t go into corporate America..”
So if I go to work for GM is it public service?
First the Obamas are to dumb and sleazy to know what they are doing and I would hardly think an over $300,000 job is hardly leaving the corporate world.
Doesn’t one have to be IN a money making industry to move out? It seems they have only ever worked for organizations feeding at the public trough.
One has to be IN a “money-making” industry in the first place to be able to call themselves getting OUT of that industry. I don’t think either of them has ever really had a real job; in my opinion, that big “job” she held was nothing but payback. She and Barack are in the middle of the biggest pile of money in the universe in Washington, DC.
I also think they think that the American people are all idiots.
And how much are these two sleazeballs worth?
How much did the worthless wife make in that hospital for doing nothing.
Give me a break.
The Obamaloon and the loonmate are right down there in the bottom of the dhimmicrat barrel (which itself is at the bottom of all the bigger barrels).
Barack got $1M from the government for the hospital, who in turn, paid it out to Michelle Obama in $350,000 installments. This is called Money Laundering.
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