Despite the entreaties of the Left, and their smear campaign against people who call the Obamas what they are, we are going to press on. The Left says we just don't like rich, educated black people. Wrong. We love Colin Powell, we love Condi Rice, JC Watts, Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, and the list goes on and on. What we don't love are effite liberal elitist snobs OF ANY RACE. The Obamas are just that. Michelle Obama shows it here:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, complained the government’s $600 economic stimulus check was only enough to buy “a pair of earrings” while stumping for her husband.
“You're getting $600 - what can you do with that?” Mrs. Obama said in Pontiac, Michigan last week. “Not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn't pay down every bill every month. The short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings."
She made these remarks at a “working women’s roundtable discussion.”
The Washington Times has more:
The press almost totally ignored Michelle Obama's observation last week that the $600 stimulus check taxpayers received from Uncle Sam was only enough to buy a pair of earrings.
The Washington Times political reporter Ralph Z. Hallow notes that when he mentioned the incident in separate phone conversations with several well-known political commentators, the response from each was, "She said what? How come I haven't heard that before now?"
Why indeed? Mrs. Obama, who has been tagged as an elitist by foes, again opened herself to that charge, but the press (and John McCain's campaign) seemed to be focused exclusively on the gaffe McCain surrogate Phil Gramm made in saying Americans were a nation of whiners when it comes to the economy.
That same day, Mrs. Obama, addressing a women's panel in Pontiac, Mich., with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm in the audience, answered a question about the economic stimulus checks mailed by the U.S. government earlier this year.
"You're getting $600," she said to the audience of mostly black women. "What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn't pay down every bill every month."
She added: "Barack's approach is that the short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good. And it may even feel good that first month when you get that check. And then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings."
The media ignoring a critical story about the Obamas? I am shocked, shocked to find gambling in this establishment!
I don't know about you, but I don't know very many women who buy 600 dollar earrings.
But look at the more sinister and socialist rhetoric: it doesn't pay every bill every month? You see, Michelle, that is what is called personal responsibility and what having a job is for. The government doesn't solve problems. If you spent more time in the African American communities instead of just spewing slogans and rhetoric you would know that government action has done nothing but exacerbate the problems and create cultures of dependency. But you can't do that, can you? You and Barry were busy buying 600 dollar earrings.
These two are the epitome of elitist, sheltered liberals. All mantras, no meat.
