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re: “You know, a little black girl from the South Side of Chicago, whose mom is a secretary and dad is a blue-collar worker—not likely to become First Lady of the United States. But it happens because she got a great education, even though her folks didn’t have a lot of money." Another lie. The “poor little black girl from the South Side of Chicago” never was poor. From transcript of Rush's program last week:
“Michelle's dad, in the ‘70s, his name was Fraser Robinson, and he was a pump operator at the Chicago city water plant. It's been said that he earned 50, $55,000 back in the ‘70s. I went to the inflation calculator. Do you know what $50,000 in the 1970s is equivalent to today? $282,000. I left home at age 20 and I was making $12,000, 13,000 a year. I also made that in 1980. Regardless, it's the equivalent of $282,000 a year. Her dad was a Democrat precinct captain in the Daily Machine. He was political. He was a ward healer. And her mother, Marian Robinson, was a long-time secretary at Spiegel’s, the catalog store. I get so, frankly, worn out with this incessant need to try to convince people that you came from nothing, because the problem with it is we want to attach virtue to that, which, of course, it deserves. But there's a problem, and that is that somehow now if you're not born to the “strugg-hle,” then whatever you have is illegitimate.”

Yep. In 1970 my dream was to SOME DAY be able to afford a 30 Thousand dollar home. A new car could be had for Two thousand dollars. Tuition at Cal-State college was about two hundred dollars a year. Besides, it can be said that really NOBODY is “likely” to become First Lady of the United States. Really, very few people have. And it didn’t happen because she got a great education either. It really just happened because she married a particular person. It isn’t really an “accomplishment”.