For Mom-in-Chief Michelle Obama and Women Everywhere, It’s About Choice
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The Truth About Michele Obama ...
Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical center hired her in 2002 to run “programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting”.
In 2005, the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317, 000 nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator.
Oh, did we mention that her husband had just become a U.S. Senator? He sure had. And that he immediately requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact?… You betcha by golly… He surely did. Way to network Michelle!
But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that possibly be??? Especially if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000?
Oh, by the way, let me add that Michelle’s position was a part time, 20 hour week job at $317,000.00 per year !!
“IN GOD WE TRUST!!”–we better because you sure can’t trust your elected officials.
The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson
The Truth About Michele Obama ...
First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants
Recession, Depression, What, Michelle Worry?
July 7, 2009
Dr. Paul L. Williams
“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, ” Michelle Obama.
No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession. Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.
How things have changed! If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michelle are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:
1. $172,2000 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
3. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
5. Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
6. $90,000 – Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
7. $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
8. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
11. Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
12. $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
13. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
14. Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
15. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
16. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
17. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
18. Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
19. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lad
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Niece: Abortion Means Obama
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Niece: Abortion Means Obama Doesn't Fulfill Dream
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 11, 2008
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. says Barack Obama doesn't fulfill her uncle's dream despite his election last week as president. Dr. Alveda King says Obama's pro-abortion position makes it so the civil rights struggle is not complete because unborn children are killed in abortion.
Alveda King told LifeNews.com on Tuesday that the civil rights struggle for unborn children continues and noted that abortion adversely affects the black community.
"The election of an African American president sends a powerful and historic message that what was previously unthinkable can become reality," King said.
"The battle for equal rights has reached a major milestone, but Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of full equality remains just a dream as long as unborn children continue to be treated no better than property," she added.
While Obama has talked about reducing abortions and entering into common ground discussions about abortions involving both sides of the debate, King says his rhetoric and record don't match and that Obama will increase abortions as president.
"President-elect Obama has promised actions that will only increase the number of abortions," she said and added that pro-life advocates "must promise to redouble our efforts to resist anti-life proposals, speak up for the babies, and, above all, pray."
"We must pray with persistence and love that, in God's time, what is now deemed unthinkable will become reality - that all our brothers in sisters, from conception to natural death, will be protected in law and welcomed in society," King concluded.
"The elections are over. The pro-life battle begins anew."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Niece: Abortion Means Obama
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's Niece: Abortion Means Obama Doesn't Fulfill Dream
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 11, 2008
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. says Barack Obama doesn't fulfill her uncle's dream despite his election last week as president. Dr. Alveda King says Obama's pro-abortion position makes it so the civil rights struggle is not complete because unborn children are killed in abortion.
Alveda King told LifeNews.com on Tuesday that the civil rights struggle for unborn children continues and noted that abortion adversely affects the black community.
"The election of an African American president sends a powerful and historic message that what was previously unthinkable can become reality," King said.
"The battle for equal rights has reached a major milestone, but Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of full equality remains just a dream as long as unborn children continue to be treated no better than property," she added.
While Obama has talked about reducing abortions and entering into common ground discussions about abortions involving both sides of the debate, King says his rhetoric and record don't match and that Obama will increase abortions as president.
"President-elect Obama has promised actions that will only increase the number of abortions," she said and added that pro-life advocates "must promise to redouble our efforts to resist anti-life proposals, speak up for the babies, and, above all, pray."
"We must pray with persistence and love that, in God's time, what is now deemed unthinkable will become reality - that all our brothers in sisters, from conception to natural death, will be protected in law and welcomed in society," King concluded.
"The elections are over. The pro-life battle begins anew."
Obama Gives Work of Moms a Well Deserved Promotion
By celebrating her role instead of apologizing for it, Michelle Obama conveys that it is possible to be a successful professional and a devoted mother—that these two roles are not mutually exclusive but mutually enriching. She has experience juggling both. I think she sends a strong message that being a mom inherently means being a leader. Her words not only help give the job of mom status but convey an attitude that will help our country recognize the support that 26 million working mothers need to be effective moms-in-chief.
My (coincidentally titled) book Mom-in-Chief, to be released by Wiley in February of 2009, is all about connecting the work of moms to leadership. Obama exemplifies the kind of professional women I write about who use skills honed in the workplace to raise happy children. Leadership whether in the corner suite, the presidential mansion or around the kitchen counter is all about teaching people through actions, making healthy emotional connections, encouraging people to trust their instincts and learn from their mistakes, and looking beyond the task at hand to the greater purpose. http://www.mominchief.com
Choice
Ms. Felchner--
I agree with you completely. If many women had the choice, I believe they would stay home and take care of the children. And it is not because they feel they have to, but because they feel that they WANT to. That being said, this is still a male-dominated world that needs to start thinking differently in how families figure into the corporate world. It is getting better with flex scheduling and on-site daycare. It would be even better if we did not need to depend on employers for affordable health care. The million dollar question is how we can make insurance affordable for everyone, allow people to switch jobs without fear of losing health coverage, and allow those who only hold a job for the benefits to stay home and raise their children as a personal choice. And that is why I voted for Obama. I don't think the Republicans had a good answer to this problem. And if they did, it gets drowned out with their anti-abortion rhetoric. It seems that when ever family planning issues come up, this is the only response they have. Which indicates to me that they think the current insurance system is fine. When the majority of corporations list health insurance costs as the most pressing issue today, that should be a hint to all that affordable insurance and the general health of our country should be our top priority.
Hey Actual Reader....
You can't figure out the double meaning of "Choice" anytime it's used in a predominant manner in a"feminists" article?
JEEZE....
Attention Keith and R.L. Schaefer
Wow, I'm pretty sure that you two didn't even read the blog post upon which you are commenting. You should go back and read it, but in the event you decide not to, I'll sum up the "choice": some women get to choose whether or not they work or stay at home and care for children.
Single issue simpletons!
Do you people not realize that every state has it’s own laws regarding this issue?
The Federal government should not be involved at all and my tax dollars should in no way be spent on any aspect of the abortion issue.
I don’t care if you do it, that’s up to you but I should have to pay for your stupidity and bad choices.
I know, “it’s not my fault” -- BS
CHOICE?
When a woman has a child, born or unborn, the period of "choice" is over and the period of responsibility for her, and her partner, must begin.
