Most of what Mrs. Charm’s mother forwards me in emails is, uh, not very compelling. But this one is:
"Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take [First Lady] Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical center hired her in 2002 to run ‘programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting.’ In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000 – nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator. Oh! Did we mention that her husband had just become a US Senator? He sure had! And he requested a $1 Million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact. Way to network Michelle!
"But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000?
"We can think of only one explanation: Senator Roland Burris’s wife wasn’t interested."
From the Feb. 9 print edition of National Review.
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Argh… this is surely related to one of the physics laws – liquid in connected vessels reaches the same level. Meaning, if you pout $1M in UCMC, MO, as a connected vessel, gets her level up. Simple and natural.
Right, it’s just old fashioned corruption. Nothing new here. Except that she, being black, is supposed to get a pass on all this. And so Big Media gave her one, astoundingly enough, in a presidential election.
This is a far cry from Dr. King’s dream of a color-blind society based on merit. Hillary Rodham was merely an ideologue unsuccessfully pushing national health care in her husband’s first term. Michelle, like her husband, is a crook. But we’ll never see it widely reported. We’ll just know it, which can’t be good for the country in the long run.