Fact Check: First Lady’s False Fairy Tale of Struggle…
| First Lady Michelle Obama’s pitch to voters last night relied on the premise that she and her husband understand what it is to struggle to make ends meet. She spoke movingly about their early years–about how a young Barack Obama drove a car that was “rusted out” and found his furniture “in a dumpster,” how they both came from families that had to “scrape by.” Her fairy tale–however well-delivered–was one great, big, colorful lie…
Both Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama began their adult lives with a leg up on the rest of America. They attended elite schools: Michelle went to Whitney Young, the public magnet school for Chicago’s upper class, while Barack attended Punahou, the private prep school for the top stratum of Hawaiian society. They were accepted to Ivy League schools despite undistinguished credentials, and both attended Harvard Law School. They had expensive tastes, reflected in the $277,500 two-bedroom condo they bought in 1993–a high price even by today’s standards. Several years later, they moved into their $1.65 million mansion in Hyde Park–with the help of fraudster Tony Rezko. Barack often told a story of hardship on the campaign trail in 2008 about having his credit card declined–once. The fact that he thought this counted as real hardship speaks volumes. As First Lady, Michelle Obama has lived high on the hog while the rest of the country has suffered through an extraordinary recession. In 2010, she and her entourage decamped to Spain for a lavish vacation. That summer, the Obamas encouraged Americans to visit the Gulf coast after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which threatened tourism in the region. They promptly jetted off to Maine for their own summer holiday. This summer, the Obamas skipped their usual summer trip to the wealthy playground of Martha’s Vineyard–months after Michelle and her daughters had enjoyed an expensive winter skiing trip in Aspen. And, of course, there are the frequent pilgrimages to Hawaii, Some of their family’s comfort, of course, comes from private income, principally Barack Obama’s book sales–yet even that wealth is a spin-off of Obama’s political career. |
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Moochelle is the real deal.. a scripted scammer that is.. now she is “transparent”
Hmmmm…either FLOTUS is unaware of the well known history of her husband’s grandmother – or
she is purposely misleading the American public with her description of Barack
Obama’s grandmother as “bank secretary”. Madelyn Dunham, the Obama
matriarch whose home Barack Obama moved into full time by the time he was
in 5th grade and where he would reside until graduating high school some
eight years later, was far more than a mere “bank secretary” as described
by Michelle Obama. Madelyn Dunham was in fact a bank vice president by the time
young Barack moved into her home.
That speech was one of the biggest loads of B.S. I have ever encountered! These people are delusional! How people in this country can blindly follow these idiots is beyond me and hopefully every single one of them wake up before November.