Michelle Obama’s thesis embargoed until after the election?
posted at 3:56 pm on February 19, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Eh, I hate these stories. For one thing, they invite you to treat someone’s college thesis as though it’s a Rosetta Stone (or Rosebud) to their entire mentality. More than that, for it to be relevant you have to believe they haven’t evolved/matured politically at all since college. We went through a round of this with Hillary a year ago to no effect, but at least she was a candidate. Can’t say I’m real jazzed to go looking for gotchas in the would-be First Lady’s youthful pensees. Think the left will extend Cindy McCain’s background the same courtesy?
Slublog dug around on Lexis and came up with something from Newhouse News last year. Sounds like a fairly standard “identity awareness” treatise:
In her 1985 Princeton senior thesis, “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community,” Michelle LaVaughn Robinson lamented that white professors and classmates always saw her as “Black first and a student second.”
She had surveyed alumni to see whether they sacrificed their commitment to other blacks on the altar of success, and foresaw for herself an uneasy future: “further integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.”…
As Michelle Obama wrote in her thesis introduction, “My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘Blackness’ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.”…
Michelle Obama was guided in her choice of thesis topic by a consuming concern that her success might compromise her black identity. As she wrote in her conclusion:
“I wondered whether or not my education at Princeton would affect my identification with the Black community. I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with Whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that Black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.”…
Michelle Obama’s fears of losing touch with her roots without ever being embraced into the mainstream led her to promise, in her thesis introduction, “to actively utilize my resources to benefit the Black community.”
Not sure why this would warrant embargoing the thesis, unless it’s to deny Billy Jeff another of those smart little Jesse Jackson comparisons he likes to trot out when he feels the white vote isn’t breaking hard enough towards Hillary.
If you want something (marginally) more relevant, this time having to do with the candidate himself, dig in.
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Why not relese it, if she’s proud of it.
benrand on February 19, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Nothing that interesting… But the whole thing about losing black identity because you’re successful is pretty pathetic. Does that mean the hope of mankind thinks that his primary support has to be unsuccessful and uneducated?
John_Locke on February 19, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Idont see Hillary using this after her “Look at Obama wanting to be president at a young age” attempt.
William Amos on February 19, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Fear of being seen as “too white.” Potential First Lady. Feeling ill.
Akzed on February 19, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Sorry Michelle, I don’t feel sorry for you.
Everyone no matter what political asso., color, religon etc. has felt that way one time or another in their life.
Yawn is right!
upinak on February 19, 2008 at 4:04 PM
If there’s nothing important in it, why is it sealed until the day after the election? She’s inserted herself and her education into the campaign, but her thesis is off limits?
amerpundit on February 19, 2008 at 4:05 PM
As I wrote in the other thread, a large part of Barack Obama’s success has been due to his ability to straddle between leftism, identity politics, and the political center, while avoiding being called on anything. It seems that his wife has been speaking more forthrightly on race and opportunity than he has, and some of her views have been a little controversial. If she’s going to be part of the campaign, it’s fair to ask her to reflect on her thesis, and how her views may or may not have evolved since she wrote it. She’s voluntarily submitted her own critique of her pride in country throughout her own adult life; next time she brings up race and opportunity in America for the “benefit” of the campaign (5…4…3…) it would be nice to get her view on how things have changed throughout her adult life.
Big S on February 19, 2008 at 4:09 PM
poor thing, at least she dealt with it at a nice mature college age where one can make sense of everything. im a puerto rican who went to elementary school in SCARSDALE NY! hows that for not belonging?
ernesto on February 19, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Has Princeton embargoed any other theses from any other students? What’s the policy?
I don’t normally like the “if there’s nothing to hide…” argument, but in this case it sure looks like Obama is getting some convenient treatment here.
JohnTant on February 19, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Looking at the context of her recent remarks, it appears that political maturation has occured, and trails rather closely to that of her younger days. Similarly, one could make the case that Obama’s involvement with Saul Alinsky as an organizer, in Barak’s younger days, probably had no impact on his present mature political views. I suspect the mature views of both Michelle and Barak have not undergone much change from those of their younger days.
a capella on February 19, 2008 at 4:09 PM
I agree, I’m not a fan of Michelle Obama from the little I know of her but lets keep it current and relevant.
Dash on February 19, 2008 at 4:10 PM
By sealing it until after the election, she guarantees more attention will be drawn to it. Why have all the questions stopped about Billary’s White House records or tax returns? I bet the Clinton machine will welcome the deflection of the spotlight.
Les in NC on February 19, 2008 at 4:11 PM
If embargoing the thesis stops the media (bloggers and commentors included) from indulging in an orgy of Black Identity navel-gazing, then I’m all for it.
Allahpundit is right. She’s not the candidate; no need to hyperventilate about her thesis. Besides, we know where she stands now due to her not-ready-for-primetime mouth and ego. I don’t envy Barack’s task in trying to keep her from undermining his message.
Anton on February 19, 2008 at 4:12 PM
I thought “But I’m a victim” was part of the script. Then again, if she endured the problems and became successful that would blow the….this is a racist country and you need the government to carry you…. liberal mantra. Can’t have that.
libhater on February 19, 2008 at 4:12 PM
Wow! I expect it would be painful for someone like Bill Cosby to read that.
aunursa on February 19, 2008 at 4:13 PM
This could blunt one avenue of self-righteous posturing, however. It’s hard to imagine a vigorous anti-corporate Change! administration without somewhere a demand for increased “corporate transparency”.
Motes and beams and all.
eeyore on February 19, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Heh, apparently she hasn’t “evolved/matured politically” since college. She’s 44 now, hasn’t believed in this country for 26 years, which started at 18, then…
Entelechy on February 19, 2008 at 4:14 PM
This Obama guy is real trouble. He sounds like a closet Black Panther.
Oh well, if he gets elected, at least the USA would never make that kind of mistake again. Sometimes you have to take a few steps backwards to move forward.
Sounds like the “Great Society 2″ is just around the corner. You know how liberals love to throw away money, but swelling the welfare class and creating millions more non-productive government dependents will take years to clean up. Maybe them and the illegals will battle it out for free taxpayer money. Either way, we taxpayers will be the ones that get screwed as usual in favor of non-thinking, non-working, democratic welfare addicts that make democratic vote farming pay off every time.
saiga on February 19, 2008 at 4:14 PM
So…Black people aren’t supposed to be successful? Being successful makes you not Black? Makes you no longer a member of the Black Community, which I suppose is not at Princeton or, using this line of thinking, at any university without an outstanding sports program.
I’d love to read this thing just to gawk at what racist dribble can pass for a college thesis at a premiere University in the United States. Makes me glad I got my GED and enlisted.
Spc Steve on February 19, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Having visited many nations in my lifetime, I’ve felt the awareness of being different. But I wouldn’t criticize anyone for being aware that I’m different.
jgapinoy on February 19, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Alas, your potential status as a “First Lady”?
Because, you were belligerent and wore it on your shoulder?
Another indictment of Affirmative Action?
OhEssYouCowboys on February 19, 2008 at 4:15 PM
I’ll have to agree there. Nine months after completion certain real-world events in 2001 caused me to rethink some of my musings about the implications of Aeneas’ reaction to the death of Pallas in the foundation of Rome as a divinely mandated state. ;)
Not that my basic attitudes went through a 180 degree turnaround or anything. Just added a decidedly new perspective on things.
Deety on February 19, 2008 at 4:15 PM
I have the very same thoughts about her.
OhEssYouCowboys on February 19, 2008 at 4:16 PM
From what you put up, Allah, I read it as ‘education strips the black identity from people of my race’. Am I wrong? And is she lamenting that educated blacks see themselves as part of our overall society instead of a subset? Help me out here. Or is my whiteness blinding me?
Limerick on February 19, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Michelle Obama is putting herself out there, on the stump, in speech after speech after speech for her husband. She has interjected herself into the process in a very active role. If she chooses to engage, her views are subject to scrutiny., much like Ann Romney’s views were subject to that same scrutiny.
If Michelle has matured or changed her opinion since she wrote the paper, let her say so. I thought these two were the first couple of hope and change and truth? If so, let’s see it. This is just too much like Hillary’s hiding of papers until after the election.
To clarify: kids/parents/siblings/etc ARE off limits…yes, even Chelsea who is actively campaigning for her mother. A spouse holds a much more significant position of influence with the candidate, plus choice of spouse shows a lot about a candidate…the rest of your family, you’re just pretty much stuck with, so they are off limits.
JustTruth101 on February 19, 2008 at 4:18 PM
And you know what, allah, as someone with a degree in science (zoology) who has published papers in scientific journals, that’s what bothers me about higher education today. Not that Michelle Obama can submit an “identity awareness” dissertation, but that ANYBODY can. When you have had the experience of writing a manuscript on the nesting behavior of American coots and you have several noted ornithologists scrutinizing your every word and telling you you should change this, clarify that, organize your data so, and all for reasons of fidelity to science, you just shake your head when you read papers by students in sociology, women’s studies, black studies, etc. that are all about how someone “feels.”
radjah shelduck on February 19, 2008 at 4:18 PM
Of course not. She’ll get vivisectioned thoroughly.
What Princeton has done, surely at Obama’s request, is clear misfeasance. There is no justification for stifling the open examination of her public academic work. Either open up the thesis, or invalidate her degree until Nov. 5, 2008.
spmat on February 19, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Uncanny! It’s as though she’s tapped into a entirely Black phenomenon!
Lehosh on February 19, 2008 at 4:21 PM
I wonder if she is worried that, because he is half white and successful, her husband might lose HIS identity with the “Black community”…. Or if she will force him to be President for the “Black community” only.
Because, it is pretty obvious that she is the decision maker in that family.
Does she lose her OWN “Black identity” because she married a guy who is half white?
And what kind of privileged narcissist gets to write a college thesis about something that deals with her FEELINGS rather than something significant, Something ….. Oh Wait: According to Wikipedia, she was majoring in African studies…. No wonder.
It is ALL about race for her.
LegendHasIt on February 19, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Sounds like she was in favor of the Jim Crow laws of segregation. Nothing like black identity when you are drinking from the ‘colored’ water fountain.
Also, if she was so concerned about being at a white school (Princeton), she could have easily gone to a HBC. We have several HBC’s down here that are dynamite. NC A&T offers as good of an education as any white school. . . actually that’s where KSM went.
I guess it’s OK for blacks to be interested in their identity and culture, but whites should be ashamed (no Confederate Flag for you).
ThackerAgency on February 19, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Alienation is exclusively black? Exclusively female? Exclusively black and female when a student at Princeton? After talking to my wife and her reading the article and some of the comments, my wife pointed out that, if that is the basis of Mrs. Obama’s thesis, it’s the biggest load of “pay attention to me, I’m graduating Princeton” she can imagine. It’s one person’s perspectives on being at University, backed up by the same hash of statistics that say that many of her race go to prison, have illegitimate children, etc., and maybe some anecdotes from other black/female students on campus. So, on second thought, I don’t want to read it. I’ve been hearing the same line from Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton my entire life.
Spc Steve on February 19, 2008 at 4:28 PM
just read the sidebar on obama’s mentor.
what do you know, barry is a commie.
jimmer on February 19, 2008 at 4:29 PM
While I agree that what you said/wrote 20 years ago doesn’t necessarily matter today, if it is a poison penned diatribe against The Man it might be relevant. Michelle Obama is obviously a strong, intelligent and independent woman. You can bet your bottom dollar that she asserts a certain level of influence over Barack, just like Hillary did. Heck, just like Nancy did. :-)
cannonball on February 19, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Why not! The only way her “Princeton Education” would keep her from “identifying” with the black community, is if she herself snubbed the black community. For heavens sake! What she should be preaching is: “I’m just as black as you and if you want to succeed, the only think holding you back, is yourself!” (or possibly the dimacrats…that’s another discussion)
kcd on February 19, 2008 at 4:29 PM
I’m not sure this is news : )
kcd on February 19, 2008 at 4:30 PM
My guess:
“90210 vs Melrose Place: Comparing the Hunk Factor”
Chuck Schick on February 19, 2008 at 4:31 PM
I nominate Mrs. Spc Steve for sharpest knife in the drawer!
+1
Deety on February 19, 2008 at 4:34 PM
I think Michelle Obama should be allowed to talk more and more.
Terayyyyza Heinz Kerry has NOTHING on this woman!!!
Talon on February 19, 2008 at 4:34 PM
You’re right. Better to hide it an let people’s imagination run wild.
TheBigOldDog on February 19, 2008 at 4:34 PM
As a white girl in middle class suburbia i felt alientated from my peers in high school, that I didn’t quite “fit in.” Most of my friends also felt that way; A lot of the “Great Books” describe feelings of isolation and alienation; that is called being an INDIVIDUAL. we are not Borg.
Blight on February 19, 2008 at 4:34 PM
My respect for Tiger Woods grows with each passing day. Like the Obamanator and other “black” celebrities (the delicious Halle Berry for example) he’s of mixed racial heritage.
Yet he’s chosen to shun nonsensical racial labels and define himself. America could certainly use more of that.
Mike Honcho on February 19, 2008 at 4:36 PM
Just give them a few years, they’ll fix that for you.
Les in NC on February 19, 2008 at 4:37 PM
Now it would be reversed.
ThePrez on February 19, 2008 at 4:38 PM
If this is Michelle explaining her current white-identified hairstyle, she should use less pretentious sentences.
thuja on February 19, 2008 at 4:39 PM
She obviously sees herself as black first, why shouldn’t everyone else?
ctmom on February 19, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Well, between me and the Missus, she ought to be the sharper. She has a degree from University of Mary Washington, and I’ve a GED and some college. Small wonder I let her carry the checkbook. :-)
Spc Steve on February 19, 2008 at 4:42 PM
Dude-
You miss the point. Michelle Obama is relevant because she continues to behave as a “co-candidate” with the Messiah. She is entirely self-absorbed (good lord, look at some of the comments she has made about HERSELF in interviews) and you can practically FEEL the resentment she holds having to take a background role. (Like Hillary circa 1992.) If I’m not mistaken, the Messiah himself is on the record as saying he uses her counsel often.
And you think these folks’ thoughts and opinions of “the man” have “evolved” one iota since college? Dude. They live in an echo chamber. If anything, they’re likely more radical now than before.
Sorry. She matters.
Sugar Land on February 19, 2008 at 4:42 PM
True. But the young Mrs. Obama’s thesis illuminates is not her political views, it’s her narcissism. Her thesis, from what we can tell, is about her, her feelings, her identity and yes, her feelings about her identity. As a Princeton student she was her own favorite subject. A quarter of a century later and that hasn’t changed. She still the self-absorbed girl she was at Princeton. It’s all about her, how people treat her, how people view her, about her place in society.
The Obama campaign hasn’t gone to her head. She was always this insufferable.
Vote Sauron 08 on February 19, 2008 at 4:44 PM
It’s people like Michelle, Jesse, and Al that keep pushing the race issue front and center. If they would just let it go, I think most people would quit using “black” as a descriptive or qualifying term, ie., “black” president. And the notion that a college education makes anyone any less black (or white) is absolutely absurd.
txsurveyor on February 19, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Funny how Blacks like Rice, Thomas, Powell, Steele, etc. never seem to have this problem. Maybe being Black and Liberal causes these folks to feel disillusioned.
That’s what happens when you are brought up thinking your owed something, and then when you get, you feel “is that all there is”. The disenfranchised blacks somehow will never be happy, since they always think the man is putting them down. This goes for many liberal whites as well. It’s always someone else’s fault with these people.
Bob on February 19, 2008 at 4:51 PM
It seems to me it’s not how other people treated or viewed her, it’s how she felt about herself. Classic victim mentanlity.>
Les in NC on February 19, 2008 at 4:52 PM
Actually, I thought Teresa Heinz Kerry was an African-American who was actually born in Africa.
JiangxiDad on February 19, 2008 at 4:53 PM
“I wondered whether or not my education at Princeton would affect my identification with the Black community….”: As a racial Bildungsroman, it’s not exactly Ralph Eliison.
Travis Bickle on February 19, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Maybe she’s not proud of her thesis? Oh, wait – if she was in college, was she an Adult by then?
sleepy-beans on February 19, 2008 at 4:56 PM
I quit college (the prestigious Long Beach City College) because of the threat to my identiy as a Scandinavian-American. My ethnic identity was not respected by teachers and students. I was saddened to see many Scand-Ams sell out for money and success. America, to its great shame has yet to elect a president with a Scandinavian heritage. I still sometimes feel like a visitor. When is America going to right this great wrong?
snaggletoothie on February 19, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Colin Powell?
Condi Rice?
Clarence Thomas?
Other then Mr. Thomas (I was not paying attention at the moment in time), I do remember Mr. Powell and Ms. Rice defending their backgrounds… from childhood to adulthood from the Democrats.
I wonder how M.O. really feels about these individuals. I have noticed she is dressing more like Condi Rice everyday. Jealousy comes to mind.
Voting for B.O. may be voting another clinton protege!
upinak on February 19, 2008 at 5:08 PM
After reading this one has to wonder as to why she chose to become a Democrat.
Zaire67 on February 19, 2008 at 5:12 PM
I feel the same playing Basketball. Was ashamed to admit it. It made me feel ashamed of my nation.
JiangxiDad on February 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM
GEEZIS!! I forgot about that!!
I stand corrected. Terrayyyyza does have something on M O.
Thanks JD!
Talon on February 19, 2008 at 5:16 PM
Really? Of course, you have to have gone to college to believe it doesn’t.
Andy in Agoura Hills on February 19, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Man, I’m surprised the MSM hasn’t jumped on the fact that she used to be a male.
GoodBoy on February 19, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Its all about Michelle Obama. The poor victim. What utter bullcrap. But her fine whine is no different than any other socialist. To wit:
Andy in Agoura Hills on February 19, 2008 at 5:41 PM
Winning this election is going to be much, much, much, much easier than I had anticipated.
THE CHOSEN ONE on February 19, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Sounds like she is playing a victim.
Chakra Hammer on February 19, 2008 at 5:49 PM
Teresa Heinz Kerry v2.0
could even be much more fun than the first time.
Chakra Hammer on February 19, 2008 at 5:50 PM
You don’t have to read Michelle Obama’s thesis to get a sense of her Afro-centrism. Just read the web site of the Obamas’ church. It’s as racist as can be.
aero on February 19, 2008 at 5:50 PM
You know that Tiger’s an Obama fan, right?
SnarkVader on February 19, 2008 at 5:57 PM
I’m thinking there’s a pony in there somewhere, else why would they embargo it. Maybe time for a second look?
petefrt on February 19, 2008 at 6:01 PM
What is it with Democrats concealing their past writings until AFTER the election? First, the Clintons, then the Obamas. If none of their writings are relevant, then why the stonewalling? Just wondering…
mogilla on February 19, 2008 at 6:22 PM
To pick up on your point, and that of Les in NC:
Without reading the thesis, it is difficult to know what criteria she used to establish that profs, etc. viewed her as “black first and a student second.” How could that possibly be objectively determined? Couldn’t she just be projecting her own feelings?
mikeyboss on February 19, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Seems to me that the dims want to run on their past records but do not want the records made public until they are elected. Granted MO is not on the ballot, but why hide this until after the election given that fact? The attempt to hide this is what makes it more of an issue than what may be in it. At least anything embarassing could be explained away by an evolved opinion that comes to all of us with age. At least I hope we get smarter as we age, Bill and Hill may be an exeption.
Les in NC on February 19, 2008 at 6:32 PM
Exactly.
mikeyboss on February 19, 2008 at 6:34 PM
Michelle and Obama have Marxist, bordering on Stalinist ideologies. That is what the voters want obviously. It is really sad. Save money, send out resumes, learn spanish, and bunker-in for at least 4 years.
nottakingsides on February 19, 2008 at 6:36 PM
This was probably preemptive, and I doubt it was Barack’s or Michelle’s idea. Someone in the campaign might have decided to do it, or perhaps someone at Princeton, based not on content but on the inevitability that someone would scan every line for the hint of something controversial. There’s a (slim) chance neither of the Obamas even knew about it. If it “becomes a story,” they’ll swoop in and the embargo will likely end. If it doesn’t, they won’t care. Anyway, the undergrad musings-for-credit of the wife of a Presidential candidate are probably about as relevant as they sound.
calbear on February 19, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Michelle, you feel out of place because your liberal friends give things to minorities, without them having to earn it. And when people like you earn it, you feel cheated. You feel everyone thinks you are where you are because of “handouts”, or favors…that’s the kind of society your liberal friends have created. Yes your profs. know, that by their good graces you are allowed to be taught by them.
Come on over to the conservative side, we don’t care what you look like, where you were born, who your parents are…are you productive, caring, do you love America and all that it has to offer, do you embrace freedom and the ability to move though life, from one “class” to another because of accomplishments? If you feel that way, then you are more conservative then you want to admit.
We (conservatives) are free, we don’t live in the plantation of entitlements, we live in the land of opportunity…the fountain you drank (sipped) from had “colored only”, built by your liberal friends to “help” you. Our fountain is shared by all, for all, and you can drink as much as you want.
right2bright on February 19, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Anyone fell free to correct me if I’m wrong, but how did Michelle Obama get into Princeton? I will guess affirmative action. If so, it makes sense that she’d identify as “black” first since that’s how she got in to start with.
Either way, I suspect we’ll be seeing more of The Oprah, and hearing less of Mrs. Obama in the coming days.
SouthernGent on February 19, 2008 at 6:38 PM
Dig in I have, and IMO his relationship with Davis is nothing to sniff at. This piqued my interest, and I betcha the O learned this lesson well:
Is this wishful thinking on Chapman’s part or a wakeup call?:
Buy Danish on February 19, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Talk about White Guilt, this woman has Black Guilt! and is genuinely ashamed by her success. She hides it by blaming it on how poorly she integrated into a white majority liberal college. All that white Princetoinan self-loathing open-minded guilt trip smearing must have rubbed Michelle the wrong way. Not enough discrimination to suit her fancy I guess.
Talk about a high maintenance liberal.
Kini on February 19, 2008 at 6:55 PM
Touche’.
Buy Danish on February 19, 2008 at 6:58 PM
Let’s face it. There are only two types of people that support Obama:
1. Black racists and/or victims
2. Sufferers of white guilt
Anybody else is voting Republican. Game over.
Andy in Agoura Hills on February 19, 2008 at 7:00 PM
The same way any minority gets into a highly competitive institution: quotas. In this case, affirmative action. This program has hurt blacks more than any other single government program designed to help minorities.
I know that given a choice between a black doctor and a white doctor, I’ll choose the white doctor every time because I won’t worry that the doctor treating me got a pass into medical school. Yeah, its sad, but its also my health.
Andy in Agoura Hills on February 19, 2008 at 7:04 PM
I knew she was nuts, but it just keeps getting better. This kind of racist trash might get you an “A” from Whitey, but it reads like a paranoid rant from a very nutty woman that uses the color of her skin as an excuse for hatred.
AKA: “Change”
Hening on February 19, 2008 at 7:26 PM
For once, Andy, I agree.
baldilocks on February 19, 2008 at 7:38 PM
As someone who works in higher ed, I will say that she would never have had her thesis approved had she written something positive about her experience. In her case, though, the resentment seems to have continued and informed her and her husband’s limousine liberal status.
PattyJ on February 19, 2008 at 7:38 PM
So we’re just assuming she’s stupid and that’s how she got in?
SnarkVader on February 19, 2008 at 7:42 PM
A bit on Barak’s foreign policy advisors.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/samantha_power_and_obamas_fore_1.html
a capella on February 19, 2008 at 7:59 PM
WTF!!?? How come this Trillion dollar give away authored by Hussein, is about to pass the senate and no one has said a word about it ’sides Allah?
That ass hat is going to tax us 1% of our GDP to be given to the F’n UN?? I’m taking my pitchfork and torch and paying him a visit.
Alden Pyle on February 19, 2008 at 8:28 PM
Sounds as lightweight a thesis as her hubby.
Do they publish these things on mylar balloons?
“How I Determined My Own Race Before Birth”
is the one I’m waiting to read.
For all these people so enamored with their color / race / ethnicity.
As if they had anything to do with it.
What’s to be “proud” of?
The Uncontrollable?
Blind Chance?
Mere Flukes?
profitsbeard on February 19, 2008 at 8:47 PM
Remember the scripture……”There will be no other gods before me”. Those of you idiots who are acting like O’Bama Hussien is the next coming of Jesus Christ (Messiah) are in for a huge fall.
Winebabe on February 19, 2008 at 9:00 PM
I think that sentence could use a rewrite.
There is no doubt that quotas give women and minorities an unfair advantage, but there are plenty of minorities who would have advanced without these mandates.
Your reaction is precisely why Ward Connelly and many other conservative blacks loathe affirmative action.
Thanks for link. Ugh. Why does it not surprise me that the most Leftist Senator in Congress is drawn to advisors like that? No doubt he would take their bad advice to heart and act on it too.
Buy Danish on February 19, 2008 at 9:08 PM
If the quoted passages are telling, it appears she wrote her thesis about herself. That is incredibly lame and implies she’s either self-centered or lazy.
Spolitics on February 19, 2008 at 9:12 PM
I wonder whether the MSM will pick up this man’s youtube accusation that he did coke and had sex with Obama in 1999.
As for Obama’s communist ties, in an LAT interview, he listed Occidental College prof Roger Boesche as the most influential thinker in his life. Boesche is a genius, no doubt, but he is also the resident Marx/Hegel/Nietzsche man on campus.
I actually like Obama and would vote for him over Hillary and McCain just on the basis of likeability and brains, but if the above are true, there is still enough subversive left in me that I think it would be kind of funny to have a crack-smoking, commie, bisexual black President. Ya say ya want a revolution… and ya got one. If he actually came out of the closet once he was elected, legalized drugs, and threw big gay drug parties in the White House, now that would be some serious comedy there. Like Putney Swope meets Network meets Boogie Nights meets The Boys in the Band meets Head of State, but different.
wordwarp on February 19, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Oooh, Thanks for that link. I can’t believe how that has been kept so quiet in the ‘Vast Right Wing Blogospiracy’.
First I heard of it.
LegendHasIt on February 19, 2008 at 10:33 PM
This narcissistic dribble is the basis for a doctoral thesis?
I think I wrote something that shallow in Speech 101 as a Freshman, entitled “Redneck First, student second”.
faraway on February 19, 2008 at 10:54 PM
BTW, there are 2 separate videos of the Goddess saying she hasn’t loved her country til lately.
She just needs to keep talking. I feel a “macaca” moment coming.
faraway on February 19, 2008 at 10:57 PM
My thesis I wrote as a Jr in HS was…
(Not a bad topic for a 17 year old kid if I do say so myself).
I would hate to have to defend what I wrote back then today (I am comfortable with my conclusions I expect the body/objections could use some re-work).
That said what I wrote back then (1988/99) does not necessarily reflect my view today, however hiding it from everyone until after the election is a pure BS move.
F15Mech on February 19, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Agreed. This is what passes as a thesis at universities these days?
amkun on February 19, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Wordwarp you’re a hoot. Thanks for the laugh.
Does Michelle want us to feel guilty because we notice that she’s black? Just what does this woman want?
UnEasyRider on February 19, 2008 at 11:52 PM
It was only an undergrad thesis, but granted, “How I feel and how people treat me” wouldn’t fly at my school, which is considerably less prestigious than Princeton.
munseym on February 20, 2008 at 12:07 AM
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