BITTER MICHELLE OBAMA URGES THE POOR TO AVOID COLLEGE AND CORPORATE AMERICA

[Reported by Deal Breaker and Asia Times]

Michelle Obama, the Princeton graduate who went to Harvard Law School before joining the mega corporate law firm Sidley & Austin, told an audience of working mothers at a daycare center in Zanesville, Ohio: College isn’t worth it and you should stay out of corporate America. Better if they stay in their place, back in “the community.”“We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do. Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond.”

According to the U.S. Census, Muskingum County, where Zanesville is located, had a median household income of $37,192 in 2004, below both the Ohio and national averages. Just 12.2 percent of adults in the county have a bachelor's degree or higher, also well below the state and national averages. About 20 percent don't have a high school degree.

Moreover, as the Asia Times points out:

“But she did not leave corporate America. She did leave the corporate law firm that hired her out of Harvard Law School, but there is no reason to believe that idealism drove that decision. The major law firms make partners out of a fifth of their new hires, who slave for years for the opportunity. Michelle Obama was not partner material for a top firm. She took more than a year to pass the Illinois Bar Examination, a substandard result, and - as her thesis makes clear - lacked the command of written English required for legal success. Her skills were better suited to the hospital position she eventually filled. Not only did she sell out, but she sold out for mediocre results.”

“But it was not only Senator Obama's writing income, it was Michelle's $200,000 salary increase and corporate directorships following his election to the US Senate that made the family prosperous. And it wasn't just piano lessons and summer camp, but a mansion in the Chicago suburb that represented an adequate price for Michelle's soul.”

The Asia Times was referring to Michelle Obama’s Princeton senior thesis—the one that the Obama campaign initially suppressed, and Michelle initially claimed she could not recall the contents of.

In it Michelle Obama expresses her bitterness to white America, and praises the ‘black separatists.”

All of this coupled with Michelle Obama’s recent admission that she was not really proud to be an American (at least until her husband ran for president and became the Democratic frontrunner) casts doubt on whether this power couple is ready for prime time—let alone the White House.