Michelle Obama is beyond bitter. She absolutely oozes the meme of black liberation theology and cannot withhold the frustration she feels.
Michelle Obama is both a disciple of black liberation theology and a lifelong beneficiary of affirmative action. She has been handed opportunity after opportunity based not on her character and abilities but on the color of her skin. She is not encountering an affirmative action-free zone - a run for the presidency - and she is having great difficulty coping with life without the boost.
The more I see of Mrs. Obama, the more I am convinced that she was a member of Trinity Church long before she met her husband. Her ties to radicals the likes of Bernadette Dohrn reveals a personna of an anti-American.
By her own admission, she did not have the academic qualifications to matriculate to Princeton. Her advisors told her not to waste her time. Yet she was admitted to Priceton.
If her Thesis is any indication of her academic prowess, she was not a candidate for admission to Harvard Law. Yet she was accepted there.
Her future credentials were given the Ivy League polish to launch a successful career, yet it was not enough. She now rails about the debt she incurred along the way.
Those of us who went to both college and law school had choices to make. In my own situation, I discounted Ivy League schools not because of my academic performance but due to the cost. Being a white male from a large middle class family, I was not a candidate for financial aid of any type. The costs associated with an Ivy League education were as out of reach for me as an Italian sports car. I chose institutions that I could afford and would not crush me with future debt. That is not to say that I did not have to borrow money - I did, and it took 10 years to pay back. But I never once complained about the debt - the education I received was worth it to me.
Michelle Obama’s education is not worth much to her. She did not have to work for it like most other people. She was handed opportunities out of reach for the vast majority of people. Yet she is bitter. When you are given something, it does not quite have the same meaning to you as something that you worked hard to get.
But that has been the story of Michelle Obama. Glorious opportunities handed to her based on pigment. But black liberation theology tells her it is no even close to settling a 400 year old debt. She is owed. She is entitled. She is oppressed.
The race for president looks to be Mrs. Obama’s first foray outside of the affirmative action world. She talks constantly of having the bar moved. That is like a football coach complaining that the other team is not running the same play all the time.
Welcome to reality, Michelle. Welcome to the real world.
Michelle Obama’s biggest problem, in my opinion, is that she is stupid and forever stuck there. If Affirmative Action didn’t exist she would never have gotten into those Ivy League colleges and the world would,thankfully, have been spared her insane thesis which, in the words of the remarkable Hitch, was written in no known language. She would also have been spared the ordeal of paying a debt that she owed. The bottom line with her, and perhaps her husband, is that she seems to resent having to pay for anything at all.
Do progressives/liberals/socialists ever consider that the reason Americans are anxious about the future is that liberal policies remove the incentive for people to succeed? If I have a great idea, take out a second mortgage, work night and day, sacrifice time with family and friends, and become successful, liberals would heavily tax my business profits and personal income so that everyone can have a little more of the pie. Why should I bother?
A white, male teenager can bust his butt to get good grades, participate in sports and extracurricular activities, and still be denied entry into a highly rated college because of his race and gender. What’s the point in studying hard?
I can wisely invest my earnings, save for the future, and buy a house I can afford. At the same time, others are overspending themselves into debt and foreclosure, and politicians want to take my tax dollars to bail them out. Why did I sacrifice?
Fortunately, the American Spirit is stronger than liberal platitudes. I’ll do the right thing--work hard, pay my debts, and put something away for the future--despite the fact that a liberal government under Obama or Clinton would do its damnedest to thwart me at every turn…
Jim, great post. I have another snippet along your lines to contribute.
Two weeks ago I was in LA riding a rental car bus to the airport. The driver was listening to a local black talk show who was interviewing (obsequiously) Michelle Obama. Most of the conversation was painfully dull, servile on the part of the host, and typical “we are oppressed” kind of crap that I always turn off as soon as possible. However since I did not have that option, I did hear Michelle Obama state something that has bothered me ever since.
“It is our turn now”. Once she said it, both she and the host dwelt on that tidbit by agreeing (uh huh, uh huh) to it before moving on to some other offense against Obama, her, or something else equally vile.
It is our turn now? What a horrific group identity attitude to have. But that kind of divisive thinking permeates her every word and action. She doesn’t think of herself, or Obama, as a person. She entirely a member of the “black” community first and last. That must why things like “chickens....” does not offend her--she is only nominally an American. Permanently offended and permanently angry because her group has not received enough goodies to make up for offenses, real and imagined.
She is basically a race whore. Married to Obama. Who thinks it is her turn for everything. Anything she or Obama doesn’t get is unfair, because it is their “turn” to get it. A mansion in Chicago? Yes, it is their turn. A Princeton law degree? Yes, because it is their turn. Forgiveness of her law school debt? Yes, because it is their turn.
So, how much of the government will need to change because it is “their turn”? Doesn’t matter if someone is better qualified, it isn’t “their turn” anymore if they aren’t part of whatever little psychotically angry group containing Michelle and Barrack.
I never thought I could imagine it, but this witch’s stay in the White House would make Hillary look like a saint!
According to Hitchens, Michelle Obama is illiterate.........
“I direct your attention to Mrs. Obama’s 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.” To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.
Anyway, at quite an early stage in the text, Michelle Obama announces that she’s much influenced by the definition of black “separationism” offered by Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton in their 1967 screed Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. I remember poor Stokely Carmichael quite well. After a hideous series of political and personal fiascos, he fled to Africa, renamed himself Kwame Toure after two of West Africa’s most repellently failed dictators, and then came briefly back to the United States before electing to die in exile. I last saw him as the warm-up speaker for Louis Farrakhan in Madison Square Garden in 1985, on the evening when Farrakhan made himself famous by warning Jews, “You can’t say ‘Never Again’ to God, because when he puts you in the ovens, you’re there forever.” I have the distinct feeling that the Obama campaign can’t go on much longer without an answer to the question: “Are we getting two for one?”
In Michelle Obama’s senior thesis, I found this on Page 129:
“ ... there is only one University recognized [sic] organization on campus designed specifically for the intellectual and social interests of Blacks and other Third World students.”
Apparently Ms Obama (nee Robinson) considered “Blacks”, presumably even black Americans, to be “Third World students.” Ponder that and see where it takes you.
I am also struck by how low the academic standards were for degrees at Princeton circa 1985, judging by this thesis. As Christopher Hitchens opined in his recent essay on Slate.com, it was not written in any “known language.”
When you look at Michelle Obama’s academic and professional careers, she has never ventured outside of the affirmative action realm. Princeton - affirmative action admission. Harvard Law - affirmative action admission; Sidley Austin - affirmative action/diversity hire; Northwestern - affirmative action programs; City Of Chicago - affirmative action hire; University of Chicago - affirmative action hire to run affirmative action programs; University of Chicago Hospitals - affirmative action hire to run affirmative action programs.
Barak’s run for the White House is her first real exposure to the real world. Imagine her surprise when a minority candidate for President is actually on a level playing field. No 400 delegate handicap based on race.
So her vitriol regarding people being forced to come out of their comfort zones, her observations about an ever changing landscape in the real world and her disdain for the realities of a truly equal contest, are actually the result of her own internal conflict. Mrs. Obama has yet to overcome the self imposed segregation of of her own life, having settled into the comfort zone of preferential treatment.
In that sense, she cannot help but lament the tragedy of the inequities of equality. It is not equality she endorses, but the continuation of unequal treatment; unequal preferential treatment. Her anger is over equality, not inequality. And in her less than eloquent manner, she is effectively making a back door admission that people who can relate to her message do so because they are incapable of making it on their own in an equal world. In her own words, she is subtly decrying the racism she sees as inherent in a truly equal system.
As for Michelle’s dubious academic performance, I believe it--especially based on what I could stomach of her Princeton senior thesis--but I wish there were better evidence available. I’m guessing she had mediocre grades and SAT scores. Her rhetoric nowadays is so full of holes it’s hard to believe she ever properly reasoned her way through a 3-page paper.
When you look at Michelle Obama’s academic and professional careers, she has never ventured outside of the affirmative action realm. Princeton - affirmative action admission. Harvard Law - affirmative action admission; Sidley Austin - affirmative action/diversity hire; Northwestern - affirmative action programs; City Of Chicago - affirmative action hire; University of Chicago - affirmative action hire to run affirmative action programs; University of Chicago Hospitals - affirmative action hire to run affirmative action programs.
Barak’s run for the White House is her first real exposure to the real world. Imagine her surprise when a minority candidate for President is actually on a level playing field. No 400 delegate handicap based on race.
So her vitriol regarding people being forced to come out of their comfort zones, her observations about an ever changing landscape in the real world and her disdain for the realities of a truly equal contest, are actually the result of her own internal conflict. Mrs. Obama has yet to overcome the self imposed segregation of of her own life, having settled into the comfort zone of preferential treatment.
In that sense, she cannot help but lament the tragedy of the inequities of equality. It is not equality she endorses, but the continuation of unequal treatment; unequal preferential treatment. Her anger is over equality, not inequality. And in her less than eloquent manner, she is effectively making a back door admission that people who can relate to her message do so because they are incapable of making it on their own in an equal world. In her own words, she is subtly decrying the racism she sees as inherent in a truly equal system.
To be fair about it, can any member of a protected special class--such as blacks--escape from being treated as an AA hire/enrollment in our society? AA treatment appears ubiquitous; subtle at some corporations and as obvious as a 400 point SAT handicap in university applications. In my state (Washington) despite having passed a law specifically banning the preferential treatment essential to AA, schools and government just ignore it and proceed with business as usual.
Michelle clearly spent the majority of her life wrapped in the bosom of AA treatment, but doesn’t that impact any black to a greater or lesser degree in the USA? I know this is dangerously close to saying “we made Michelle”, but maybe there is some truth to that notion.
The posts of Jim M, Relish, Sally, Buell, etc., what else is there to say? Well done, y’all. The woman is an embarrassment to all woman, nee, black women, nee, black American women, nee, all AMERICANS.
To be fair about it, can any member of a protected special class--such as blacks--escape from being treated as an AA hire/enrollment in our society?
Blacks do not want to be fair about it and shut down racial discrimination… that’s why the NAACP continues to be a staunch supporter of AA some 40+ years after it was supposed to have ended.
And since we’re being fair about it, had Michelle Obama’s skin been white, she’d never have been admitted to Princeton. If you’re white and not homosexual, you actually need to have some academic credentials and a pretty fine SAT score.
