Abraham H. Miller3 wrote July 5, 2008, in a Chicago Sun-Times’ blog
entry:

Michelle Obama spent just three years at the Chicago Law Firm of
Sidley Austin, far less than a typical associate on the career path to
be partner. In a move incongruous with the alleged iconic credentials
that are a mainstay of the Michelle hagiography, she took a job with
the Democratic machine.

Probably some people think you leave a high- powered, prestigious law
firm like Sidley Austin to take a job with the Chicago machine to save
the world. But no one who knows how Chicago works is going to buy
that!

Michelle was subsequently hired by the University of Chicago,
ultimately ending up as the University of Chicago Hospital’s Vice
President for External Affairs. Barack was chair of the Illinois
Senate’s powerful Health and Human Services Committee, the position
tied by some to the Rezko scandal.

If you don’t get the picture, you are definitely not from Chicago.

In 2007 the not-for-profit University of Chicago hospital turned out a
profit of 143 million, and is up 118 million for 2008. The hospital is
scheduled to receive a 30 million infusion from Medicaid, and will be
turning some of its Medicaid patients to another hospital to free up
space for its private insurance paying patients. According to the
(London ) Daily Mail (online), in 2006 the hospital turned away an
indigent man, who died.

When Michelle exhorts young people to turn down the profit system and
do something meaningful with their lives, apparently this is not the
example she means to convey.

Now you might ask what does a community relations director at a
university do? That’s really a naive question. The question is who
does the community relation’s director know?

The answer became apparent when Barack was elected to the U.S. Senate
and Michelle’s salary more than doubled.

Barack and Michelle were a power couple hooked into the Democratic
machine. Tony Rezko cultivated them, the Chicago Way.

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