Fact Check: Michelle Obama's False Fairy Tale of Struggle

[FrankRep]

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Fact Check: First Lady's False Fairy Tale of Struggle (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/05/Fact-Check-Michelle-Obama-s-False-Fairy-Tale-of-Struggle)


Breitbart.com
5 Sep 2012


First Lady Michelle Obama’s pitch to voters last night relied on the premise that she and her husband understand what it is to struggle to make ends meet. She spoke movingly about their early years--about how a young Barack Obama drove a car that was “rusted out" and found his furniture “in a dumpster,” how they both came from families that had to “scrape by.” Her fairy tale--however well-delivered--was one great, big, colorful lie.

Both Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama began their adult lives with a leg up on the rest of America. They attended elite schools: Michelle went to Whitney Young, the public magnet school for Chicago’s upper class, while Barack attended Punahou, the private prep school for the top stratum of Hawaiian society. They were accepted to Ivy League schools despite undistinguished credentials, and both attended Harvard Law School.
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/05/Fact-Check-Michelle-Obama-s-False-Fairy-Tale-of-Struggle

[mport1]

I really don't understand this desire politicians have to prove how poor and miserable their lives were.

[RickyJ]

I really don't understand this desire politicians have to prove how poor and miserable their lives were.

To get poor and miserable people's votes. There is a multitude of poor and miserable people out there that want to cling to whatever dim hope their is that they too can be prosperous and happy.

[susano]

Bill Clinton touched on, tonight, when he said all politicians want people to think they were they raised in a log cabin they built themselves. Of course, Romney can't make that claim. Obama's can get away with it because nobody knows the guy's real history.

[susano]

To get poor and miserable people's votes. There is a multitude of poor and miserable people out there that want to cling to whatever dim hope their is that they too can be prosperous and happy.

That's the truth and it's why the Repukes are going to lose.

[amy31416]

http://www.moonbattery.com/Michelle-Obama_Cruella.jpg

Apparently I'm not the only one who thought she resembled Cruella.