"after attending the best colleges wit hout paying for it, and after achieving a high paying career with more than a little help from affirmative action"

Why do these "facts", like so many other "facts" that you post, smell like you pulled them out of your ass?  You know this how?  She graduated cum laude from Princeton.  If it was "affirmative action", then I'd say score a point for the affirmative action program - they chose the right person.  Looking at the evidence I'd put my money on her getting there on a scholarship and you being full of shit.  

by bfaul on 07/30/2008 02:33:50 PM EST

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From your own linked article -

"she graduated with departmental honors and was accepted to Harvard Law School." - man, honors from her department and accepted to harvard law, she was obviously unqualified.

"She resolved to leave the law firm and mentor young people from the neighborhood she grew up in. But she was daunted by how little money she would make, and feared she would not be able to pay back her sizable student loans." - so who paid for her education?

So, she had loans she had to pay off and she graduated with departmental honors, so she performed well while there. So what exactly is your point, KenTX?

Don't talk about religion or politics, my ass!

by TheRob91 on 07/30/2008 09:12:32 PM EST

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Here is the paragraph immediately following the one you quoted:

"Michelle recalls things differently. A campaign spokeswoman says she had an edge getting into Princeton not because of affirmative action, but because her older brother was there as a scholar athlete. She was a "legacy," just like any other applicant with family ties to Princeton. Her aides say Michelle earned her way into Harvard on merit by distinguishing herself at Princeton."

In other words she did it just like the white people do,  just like George W Bush did, except that his dad was wealthy and he was a C student.  I suppose if she had been wealthy instead of having to borrow the money to go to Princeton she would be above reproach for people like you. 

You have a disdain for the poor folks that sounds almost neurotic.  Was your dad poor?  Did you resent him for it? 


"It's so easy. Effortless, really."

Yeah, I can tell it's "effortless". You clearly don't bother to read what you post.  Read the whole article and it won't be quite as "effortless".   

Why don't you just admit it?  You don't like her because you don't agree with Obama's politics and you smear her because you don't really have a hell of a lot to smear Obama with.  It also doesn't help that she's black, she's a woman,  and she's not a pushover, she doesn't know her "place".    Your candidate is weak and he doesn't excite anyone but the buzzards circling above his head, so you can't sell him on his own merit.  Spit it out, you'll feel so much better.

by bfaul on 07/31/2008 03:34:53 PM EST

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