Michelle, Queen of Melodrama

  So we're treated again, this time without breathless panting about the muscularity of her arms, to a portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama's trips on the road.
  Why, why, why do we have to hear, every time she's in the news, about how rough her life is?
  Why, why, why do we have to hear about how she struggles living in the White House?
  And why do we have to hear the myth that Barack Obama's grandmother was so discriminated against because she was a woman? They don't have the racism excuse for this one, but they can play the sexism card.
  Here she goes at Politico: 

When things got too tough, the president’s grandmother stepped in, “waking up every morning before to dawn to take the bus to her job at the bank,” the first lady said. At that job, the president’s grandmother watched men she had trained pass her by with promotions.

“Why? Because she was a woman,” the first lady said. “Those are the experiences that have made him the man and the president he is today. And that is what I hear in his voice when he comes home after a long day traveling around the country, and he tells me about the people he’s met.”

  From  Wikipedia we learn this about Madelyn Dunham:

The Dunhams then moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where Stanley found a better furniture store opportunity, and Madelyn started working at the Bank of Hawaii in 1960 and was promoted to be one of the first female bank vice presidents in 1970.^[2] In 1970s Honolulu, both women and the minority white population were routinely the target of discrimination.^[

  Even Wikipedia is doing it; she's one of the first female bank vice presidents but she was discriminated against. While those prejudices surely did exist, why capitalize on old grievances which do not seem to be grounded in truth considering that Dunham achieved the position she did?
  This isn't the first time the Obamas have used a dead relative to garner undue sympathy.  His claim that his mother had no health insurance and struggled with the bills as she drew near to death was utterly untrue, but did appear to bolster his plea to the American public for national health care.
  The truth was different, however. Washington Examiner: 

But Scott, who had access to Dunham's correspondence from the time, reveals that Dunham unquestionably had health coverage. "Ann's compensation for her job in Jakarta had included health insurance, which covered most of the costs of her medical treatment," Scott writes. "Once she was back in Hawaii, the hospital billed her insurance company directly, leaving Ann to pay only the deductible and any uncovered expenses, which, she said, came to several hundred dollars a month."

Scott writes that Dunham, who wanted to be compensated for those costs as well as for her living expenses, "filed a separate claim under her employer's disability insurance policy." It was that claim, with the insurance company CIGNA, that was denied in August 1995 because, CIGNA investigators said, Dunham's condition was known before she was covered by the policy.

  Playing with the truth is a habit for these people; indeed as we draw nearer the 2012 election, we are seeing all manner of monkey business. Like, for example, Obama's claim that no one is accused of being unpatriotic by disagreeing but then his immediate accusation that his opponents are stupid for not "understanding" his latest spendthrift scheme to pump up the coffers of the Democrat party.
  Because that IS what the latest jobs bill/stimulus is about.
  It's pretty apparent that some of the billions being funneled into companies like Solyndra (and there are many more) are then kicked back into Obama's reelection campaign. It's called laundering and these guys are guilty of it.
  The crowds are smaller but still seem to be susceptible to these soap opera tactics.
  Combine that with a few of the videos posted on this blog in the last few posts and you'll begin to smell something really, really rancid.