'People' Interview: Michelle O Brags On Her Smarts

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Rush Limbaugh likes to joke that he has "half my brain tied behind my back, just to keep it fair." But there's no sign Michelle Obama [file photo] was anything but serious when she said something similar in a current People magazine interview, h/t Michelle Malkin, claiming she could be "very competent" on policy putting in only a 70% effort.

Throw in a couple more statements from Mrs. Obama in the interview attesting to her own intellect, and a picture emerges of a woman either very sure of her smarts . . . or perhaps in need of reassuring others--and herself--on the subject.

Excerpts [emphasis added]:

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

30% of her brain tried behind her back ping to Today show list.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

She got the Jackie flip haircut and beads again.

[polymuser]

So, it would be another co-presidency.

[RJS1950]

That hairdo and pearls are definitely on purpose and exactly because it enforces the mythology of the Kennedy’s.

[Thanks RR Rest Well]

I saw one poster refer to one of
her hairdos as the “Mars Attacks”
hairstyle.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That’s funny.

[McGruff]

Mika interviewed Michelle Obama? Betcha there were some lesbyonic flirtitations going on during that.

[RepoGirl]

Michelle Obama reminds me of the character Plankton in Spongebob Squarepants (my daughter's favorite show.) Always thumping his chest and crowing, "I went to college!" or proclaiming "I will take over the world using my superior COLLEGE EDUCATED plan!"

Yo Michelle, this hick conservative went to college and even got herself one-a-them masterey duh-grees... and I'd suspect that so did a whole heapin' lot of freepers did too. Duz that mean we're also 120 percenters?

Insecure broad.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Please note that it’s a file photo from a November, 2007 interview.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

So she took the beads off ?

[keepitreal]

How are those two huge egos contained in one home?

Also an interesting quote: “Where I’ve had to come – not just in this campaign, but in my life of having so much that I’m doing, my career, the role of mom and exercise and all these other things that I have come to believe are just as important –”

Wow, exercise is just as important as her children?

[Dick Vomer]

I've met them.... over compensating for being an affirmative action baby.

yeah, honey...just keep telling us how smart you are.... uh-huh.

She reminds me of Omarosa, just spouting off about how she's in charge of whatever, but never managing to "do" anything.

Now what did Michelle O do on the hospital board exactly?

[altura]

Sorry, but I read that thingee she wrote for college. She ain’t smart.

[Cathy]

Omarosa is prettier with a nicer disposition.

[Bahbah]

I read that thingee she wrote for college. She ain’t smart.

Correct. And she isn't well educated either.

[silver charm]

I glimpsed a bit of a breathless tv genuflection to Obama’s bitter half the other day..............the MSM is so desperate to portray her as Jackie O.

They showed her in a bright red dress that looked like it came strait off the rack at Ross’s and compared it to Jackie in a timeless red Channel suit.

The woman is really rather coarse looking and in spite of all her money and handlers has no dress sense at all. As my grandmother used to say.....”common, dead common”.

The MSM will try anything. What is worse is the masses who swallow it faithfully.

She is more like Teresa Heinz (Kerry) would be if she sobered up. Bitter, arrogant and very wealthy.

[Oldexpat]

She would never have gone to Princeton is she were white.
She admitted that her test scores weren’t high enough.
If she broke 1200 I’d be surprised.
I’ll contribute $1000 to Obama’s campaign if somebody can supply a real copy of her SAT’s over 1200.

[libs_kma]

"Now what did Michelle O do on the hospital board exactly?"

You ask that as if you don't think filling a slot counts.

[12Gauge687]

$250,000 for a slot is a lot! Especially if it’s a position in “community relations.”

[Pearls Before Swine]

a picture emerges of a woman either very sure of her smarts . . . or perhaps in need of reassuring others--and herself--on the subject.

Well, I for one need a lot of reassuring. "Convincing" is probably a better word.

[joe.fralick]

Typically insecure affirmative action baby. She flunked the Illinois Bar Exam on her first try, also, but no need to hold that against her: Hillary flunked the DC Bar, and she wanted to be President.

[infowarrior]

If ya brag on "your smarts", then it becomes obvious that you actually don't have any...

the infowarrior

[isrul]

Yeah. Momma and the “Kingfish”.

[ridesthemiles]

Both of these people are what my deceased Dad would call uppity.

[ridesthemiles]

Now what did Michelle O do on the hospital board exactly?”

She collected a hugh paycheck.

Some people would call it extortion.

[HighlyOpinionated]

Michelle: That is the internal struggle that I, and a lot of women, have. You listen to the outside, which says you have an obligation – because you're smart and well-educated – to do this. And it's like, 'Yeah, but I also have these kids.

Tell me if you don't pick up the inference that "these kids" are a distraction for this highly overqualified affirmative action baby-doll? Not 'my/our children' but 'these kids.' She could be talking about dogs or goats.

[Citizen Blade]

Now what did Michelle O do on the hospital board exactly?

She's the wife of a Senator, which makes her eminently qualifed for any high-pay, low-work job.

Now, back to the fields, peasant, and stop questioning your betters :)

[roses of sharon]

“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before,” the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. “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. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.”

An example of Michelle's “brilliance”.

[spacejunkie01]

She claims to put in 120% on exercize?? HA! Not with an ass that size. No way.

[Argus]

She’s a typical product of state schools and academia. Can’t write a decent sentence in plain English - just a lot of ungrammatical sociology major jargon. It’s the usual brain dead slop that passes for educated discourse in the circles the Obamas frequent.

[iopscusa]

Except for the brain dead Libs and Black racist, this BO couple are very much becoming as irritating as dragging nails across a chalkboard. Come on McCain get ehr done!

[truthguy]

I’ve seen and heard this woman interviewed over a dozen times and she should keep her mouth shut. She is the ULTIMATE affirmative action(AA) baby. I’d be willing to bet my life savings against a cup of coffee that she got into Princeton and Harvard Law strictly on AA. If I had heard her speak without knowing her background, I would never have believed that she was even a college graduate of ANY institution. This woman is a buffoon and the thought of her being anywhere near the White House as First Lady is chilling.

[OB1kNOb]

She collected a hugh paycheck.

Are you series. ;-)

[wbill]

“Hey! I’m smart! No really, I am! Really! And humble! Oh so humble! In fact, the only thing that’s better about me than my humility, is how G@%$#@%^ SMART I AM! REALLY! LISTEN TO MEEEEEeeeeeee!!!!”

[wbill]

How are those two huge egos contained in one home? ...I'll take a wild guess and bet that Obama and John Edwards share the same real estate agent.

[redstates4ever]

What do you expect from an affirmative action queen?

[fanfan]

Tell me if you don't pick up the inference that "these kids" are a distraction for this highly overqualified affirmative action baby-doll? Not 'my/our children' but 'these kids.' She could be talking about dogs or goats.

Didn't Obama say he didn't want his daughter "punished" with a baby?

[wagglebee]

Didn't Obama say he didn't want his daughter "punished" with a baby?

Yep and if such a baby were to somehow survive the abortionist's knife, Obama supports killing the baby at birth.

[lady lawyer]

That’s the problem with affirmative action babies. They never recognize that they wouldn’t have made the grade on their own merits.

[ozzymandus]

A lifetime of affirmative action handouts and liberal teachers telling this woman she’s “special” have left this woman with a very inflated sense of herself. Throw in white liberal guilt and the adulation of the MSM, and this arrogance is the result. Exactly the same as her husband.

[fanfan]

Thanks.

Post #39.

[Enchante]

I agree. It’s indisputable that she was/is an AA brat who could never have accomplished these things on her own merits. It is painful to listen to her (mis)speak.

btw, I know why she might need to rely upon only 70% of her brain - the other 30% gets flushed down the toilet every day.

[Jeff F]

To paraphrase Margaret Thatcher - Being smart is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.