Michelle Obama spoke of Barack’s rusted out car, his dumpster
diving for furniture and how their families “just scraped by.” I call BS.
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Michelle went to Whitney Young, the public
magnet school for Chicago’s upper class.
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Barack attended Punahou, the private prep
school for the top stratum of Hawaiian society.
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They were accepted to Ivy League schools
despite undistinguished credentials, and both attended Harvard Law School.
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Their combined income from cushy law firm jobs
dwarfed the repayments as Barack also enjoyed a second salary from the
University of Chicago.
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The $277,500 two-bedroom condo they bought in
1993--a high price even by today’s standards.
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In 2005 they moved into their $1.65 million
mansion in Hyde Park--with the help of fraudster Tony Rezko.
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Barack Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, he
obtained a $1 million earmark for the University of Chicago Hospital--and his
wife’s salary as Vice President for Community Affairs jumped from $121,910 to $316,962. Her job: pushing poor,
uninsured patients to other hospitals.
I can point to my 1959 rusted out Ford Fairlane with its mystery
shifter and my crappy furniture with no legs and smelly ripped fabric in crappy
apartments. Yes, I can say that while leaving out that I also had the benefit
of loving well off parents that sent me to private schools. It’s all in how you
frame it as well as what you leave out.
Oh, about the low rent apartments with dumpster diving
furniture, it’s called college and early marriage. And I actually have relatives that fondly
remember my parents secretly, to avoid embarrassment, eating nothing but beans
so I could go to private schools. The only problem is, just like Michelle’s remembrances,
it isn’t true.