Attack on Michelle Obama and her Black Experience Paper
Here is a link to Michelle Obama’s senior year thesis at Princeton University from 1985. Enjoy. The full thesis is almost 100 double space typewritten, so it should not be too painstaking to read. She is being criticized for some of the content in the paper in which she interviewed 90 black university alumni/alumnae to detail their feelings, and offer her statement on HER experience of being a young black woman at Princeton, a predominately-white school.
Should anyone be scrutinized or raked over the coals for things we have said or papers we may have written over twenty years ago or when we were in high school or college? Since her husband is running for president, should is it appropriate to question her college papers? Is this too much?
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Read her thesis over at Politico.com: Article: Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide
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- Anonymous commented on Attack on Michelle Obama and her Black Experience Paper: I would not characterize your first two quotes as belittling. Sounds
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Never underestimate the influence of a wife who bitch-slaps her husband in public. Early in Obama's campaign, Michelle Obama could not restrain herself from belittling the senator. "I have some difficulty reconciling the two images I have of Barack Obama. There's Barack Obama the phenomenon. He's an amazing orator, Harvard Law Review, or whatever it was, law professor, best-selling author, Grammy winner. Pretty amazing, right? And then there's the Barack Obama that lives with me in my house, and that guy's a little less impressive," she told a fundraiser in February 2007.
"For some reason this guy still can't manage to put the butter up when he makes toast, secure the bread so that it doesn't get stale, and his five-year-old is still better at making the bed than he is." New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd reported at the time, "She added that the TV version of Barack Obama sounded really interesting and that she'd like to meet him sometime." Her handlers have convinced her to be more tactful since then.
I would not characterize your first two quotes as belittling. Sounds like she's basically saying there's the public Obama, and there's the private Obama. Who is just Barack at home. You hear celebs often say that when they refer to home life, especially those with children. They often say, to their kids, I'm just plain ole "mom" or "dad" who happens to be on tv, while all of the groupies on the outside treat them like they walk on water.
Blogger/Pat
Here's is a quote from Janet Jackson on CNN's Larry King last week:
"regardless of how many fans are screaming for you and to how many audiences you please -- thousands and thousands and thousands of people -- you come home at the end of the day and we had tons of chores to do."