Michelle Obama, she who has had nothing to be proud of up until the candidacy of St. Barack of Obama, had these things to say before an Ohio audience in Muskingum County. As reported by Byron York at NRO:
So how does she [Michelle Obama] keep it all together? “I’m fine, because I have a strong informal support network,” Obama says. “I have a mother who lives five minutes from me. I don’t know what I would do, even if we weren’t running, I don’t know what I would do as a professional without having that kind of support system. So that keeps me sane.”
But not everyone has a close relative living nearby. And not everyone can afford to keep it all together, especially here in Muskingum County, where, according to the census, the median household income in 2004 was $37,192, below both the Ohio and national average. Out of that, there’s the mortgage. And child care. Health care. Education. Lessons. “I know we’re spending — I added it up for the first time — we spend between the two kids, on extracurriculars outside the classroom, we’re spending about $10,000 a year on piano and dance and sports supplements and so on and so forth,” Mrs. Obama tells the women. “And summer programs. That’s the other huge cost. Barack is saying, ‘Whyyyyyy are we spending that?’ And I’m saying, ‘Do you know what summer camp costs?’”
Nice to be able to spend more than one-fourth of what the median household in that county earns on such necessities as piano and dance. This is yet another version of John Kerry’s windsurfing and multiple homes. A man of the people, of course. As Michelle Obama is a woman of the people.
Make that sheeple. It looks like the good folks of Muskingum County, Ohio, are so in love with the Obamas that they don’t notice such huge disparities in wealth and the uses to which it is put. As one local put it, “Yes, I feel like she can relate to us as working-class mothers, being a mother herself.” Well, you can fool some of the people all of the time.
This should be a fun campaign, when St. Barack and Mean Michelle have to face a real opponent.
