Mrs. Michelle “Out-of-Touch” Obama

$600 Earrings, $10,000 Piano Lessons, etc.

Michelle Obama recently commented about President Bush’s economic stimulus checks.

"You're getting $600 - 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… 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."

Who, but a rich elitist, is going to run out and buy an expensive pair of earrings with the $600 stimulus check? Rich folk like the Obamas weren't even eligible for the check.

Exposing Liberal Lies addressed Mrs. Obama’s earring comment, “Michelle Obama, Barack’s “bitter half,” continues to spout off nonsense that could hinder her husband’s political future in his effort to take the White House.” This comment follows her infamous statement about how proud she is of America, “for the first time,” now that her husband did so well in the primaries.

In February Bryon York wrote in a National Review article, “Michelle's struggles” about her encounter with a group of six women in economically strapped Zanesville, Ohio. Here is a portion of his article:

“. . . Michelle Obama is sitting with a group of six women around a table in the basement playroom of the Zanesville Day Nursery, here in economically troubled central Ohio. Her talk is of struggle — her own struggle, the women’s struggles, the struggles of women across the country. There are struggles over money, over kids, over jobs, over husbands and ex-husbands. And perhaps most of all, there is the struggle inside.”

“It’s a constant sense of guilt,” Obama, dressed simply in a blue sweater with a triple strand of pearls, tells the women of her own dilemma as a working mother. “It’s guilt, feeling guilty all the time.”

"So how does she keep it all together? “I’m fine, because I have a strong informal support network,” Obama says. “I have a mother who lives five minutes from me. I don’t know what I would do, even if we weren’t running, I don’t know what I would do as a professional without having that kind of support system. So that keeps me sane.”

"But not everyone has a close relative living nearby. And not everyone can afford to keep it all together, especially here in Muskingum County, where, according to the census, the median household income in 2004 was $37,192, below both the Ohio and national average. Out of that, there’s the mortgage. And child care. Health care. Education. Lessons. “I know we’re spending — I added it up for the first time — we spend between the two kids, on extracurriculars outside the classroom, we’re spending about $10,000 a year on piano and dance and sports supplements and so on and so forth,” Mrs. Obama tells the women. “And summer programs. That’s the other huge cost. Barack is saying, ‘Whyyyyyy are we spending that?’ And I’m saying, ‘Do you know what summer camp costs? . . .”

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These incidents are blatant signs that the two Obamas are out-of-touch elitists who are so self-absorbed and only want to enrich themselves and to control the lives and wealth of others. It seems to me that Mrs. Obama is as big a help to her husband in his campaign as Mr. Clinton was to his wife’s campaign for the Democratic nomination. Let’s hope so!