Michelle Obama, Elitism and $600 Earrings

Man, those Obama's are just like us, aren't they? Barack Obama feels my pain when I go to Whole Foods to buy arugula and when I go to the pump and pay those damn oil companies $.08 per gallon (while the government gets $.18).

Anyway, the economic stimulus checks that were distributed recently (money that is ours btw) were supposed to jump start the ailing economy by putting cash into peoples pockets. So when one of us normal folk think about what to do with the $600, we envision paying our car insurance, mortgage or college loans for our kids. What does Michelle Obama think we'll spend it on?

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, complained the government’s $600 economic stimulus check was only enough to buy “a pair of earrings” while stumping for her husband.

“You're getting $600 - what can you do with that?” Mrs. Obama said in Pontiac, Michigan last week. “Not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn't pay down every bill every month. The short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings."

She made these remarks at a “working women’s roundtable discussion.”

Elitist you say? Never.

Let's parse this a bit, shall we? First off, let's start with the "not to be ungrateful or anything..." comment. This is pure liberalism writ large. Ungrateful or grateful to whom, Mrs. O? The government is giving us our own money back, they are not the nice old uncle we see twice a year. Libs See the government and the revenue they forcefully collect from us an the rightful holders of our money and the ones who distribute it as they see fit. As for "paying every bill every month," it was not intended to do that, that's why we have those things called jobs.

But the most telling part of this dialogue is that when Michelle Obama thinks of what she would do with $600, she thinks of buying earrings. Now how many American have ever bought $600 earrings? Yeah, those Obama's are just like you and me, aren't they? I'm sure all those women attending the "working womens's roundtable discussion" were contemplating the earring purchase as well except, well, they are working women and working women can't afford to spend frivolously now can they?

With people struggling to keep up with skyrocketing gas and food prices and the majority of Americans screaming to drill for domestic oil, Michelle Obama thinks we'll spend $600 on earrings. Hillary Clinton was more in touch with the common citizen than Michelle Obama is.