A tale of two times, the best and the worst...

[4est_4est_Gump]

2012 - the woman of the people:

On David Letterman's show in 2012, the haute-couture-clad first lady... chuckled as she shared how the shopper asked: "Can you reach on that shelf and hand me the detergent?" As the audience laughed with delight and Mrs. Obama grinned from ear to ear, she told Letterman: "I reached up, 'cause she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down -- she said, 'Well, you didn't have to make it look so easy.' That was my interaction. I felt so good."

2014: In the land of Jim Crow:

To show how she's down with The Struggle of post-Ferguson agitators, Mrs. Obama cited a supposedly horrifying incident at a Target store where she was treated, in her paranoid mind, as a subservient. "Even as the first lady," she bemoaned, "not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf."

A lowly peon asked her for an innocent favor? It's Jim Crow all over again! ABC News reports that Mrs. Obama said such "incidents are 'the regular course of life' for African-Americans and a 'challenge' for the country to overcome."

Look to the past!

It just goes to show you: Once a race hustler, always a race hustler. The first lady demonstrated a willingness to employ accusations of racial oppression for political gain from the earliest days of her adult life. Take Mrs. Obama's senior thesis at Princeton University, titled "Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community." Decrying her racial otherness, the Ivy Leaguer accused her university of pushing her down the dreaded path toward "further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant."

Yet, while regaling campaign crowds with complaints about bias, burdensome education loans and the beastly lily-white corporate world, Mrs. Obama neglected to mention that it was a white male Princeton alum who went beyond the call of duty to bring her from her imagined "periphery" to the center of power.

As I recounted in my book "Culture of Corruption," Sidley and Austin corporate law partner Stephen Carlson offered the elite student generous career guidance and mentoring while she was an undergrad and then reached out to her again when she was at Harvard Law. She secured a coveted job as a summer associate in 1987, accepted a full-time job upon graduation and never looked back. Mrs. Obama, perpetual victim, hopped from Princeton to Harvard to prestigious law firms, cushy nonprofit gigs, an exclusive Hyde Park manse and a crony corporate board appointment before landing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Tip o' the hat to Michelle Malkin

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

You're just jealous that you were born red instead.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You're just jealous that you were born red instead.

I'm just the apple Eve handed to Adam.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I'm just the apple Eve handed to Adam.

It wasn't the apple's fault.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It was the alar...


:nods:

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

It was the alar...


:nods:

You can't blame a person for using the tools that are available to them, even if it happens to be a color thang.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It depends.

Are you using the butt-end of the AK to hammer our habitats for humanity or are you using the muzzle-end to pick winners and losers?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

It depends.

Are you using the butt-end of the AK to hammer our habitats for humanity or are you using the muzzle-end to pick winners and losers?

Those are our jets. Tomorrow it will be someone elses butt.

 

[AZMotherLover]

I'm white and sometimes short people ask me to grab something from the top shelf for them.

Pretty sure its not a race thing.

 

[Que]

I'm white and sometimes short people ask me to grab something from the top shelf for them.

Pretty sure its not a race thing.

Unless they are asking to pick cotton balls up off the top shelf. That would be racist.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Those are our jets. Tomorrow it will be someone elses butt.

But Ron! Those are our executive orders and memos now!

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

But Ron! Those are our executive orders and memos now!

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was.