According to one of the British newspapers, this is BS concocted for the campaign. Their investigative reporter went to the neighborhood where Michelle grew up, saw her childhood home and interviewed her childhood friends. The bottom line: the family was comfortably middle class. Her father did work as a custodian at one time, but he was active in RAT politics and as a result got a plum job with the water utility that paid 45K a year. That was no small sum in the 70s.

Reminds me of John Edwards and his mill worker father … and the way he always forgets to mention that by the time he was two years old they no longer lived in the tiny two room house and his father climbed the ranks into management.

Michelle Obama: America is ‘Just Downright Mean’

As NewsBusters previously reported, the wife of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama isn’t very proud of her country.

Two weeks after making her disdain for the nation clear during a campaign speech for her husband in Wisconsin, Michelle further debased America by saying that we’re a country that is “just downright mean.”

Given how media made excuses for her comments in Wisconsin, it will be quite interesting to see just how much of her interview in the March 10th edition of The New Yorker will be reported in the next 24 hours

Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-four!”

Oh, woe is her! Just listen to how deluded this person is:

“You’re looking at a young couple that’s just a few years out of debt,” Obama said. “See, because, we went to those good schools, and we didn’t have trust funds. I’m still waiting for Barack’s trust fund. Especially after I heard that Dick Cheney was s’posed to be a relative or something. Give us something here!”

Give us something here?

Can you believe this nonsense? You want to know how much this couple has been given lately?

The Obamas’ financial standing has risen sharply in the past three years, largely as a result of the money Barack earned from writing “The Audacity of Hope.” In 2005, their income was $1.67 million, which was more than they had earned in the previous seven years combined.

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Just after Barack was elected to the United States Senate, Michelle received a large pay increase-from $121,910 in 2004 to $316,962 in 2005.

Still want someone to give you something, Michelle?

But that’s just the beginning of an hypocrisy an honest media would be all over if her husband was a Republican:
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