Posted on 04/09/2012 1:55:50 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama on Why Michelle Was a Working Mom (at $316K Per Year): ‘We Didn't Have the Luxury for Her Not to Work’ By Terence P. Jeffrey April 9, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - Speaking Friday at what the administration called “The White House Forum on Women and the Economy,” President Barack Obama said that after his two daughters were born, he and his wife—both Harvard Law School graduates—could not afford the “luxury” of having her stay home with the children.
In 2005, when Obama began serving in the U.S. Senate (and his daughters turned 5 and 7), he and his wife were earning a combined annual income of $479,062. Barack Obama was paid a salary of $162,100 by the U.S. taxpayers, and Michelle Obama was paid $316,962 to handle community affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center.
“And then there is the woman who once advised me at the law firm in Chicago where we met,” Obama said of his wife in his Friday talk. “Once she gave me very good advice. That's why I decided to marry her. And once Michelle and I had our girls, she gave it her all to balance raising a family and pursuing a career--and something that could be very difficult on her, because I was gone a lot.
“Once I was in the state legislature, I was teaching, I was practicing law, I'd be traveling,” he said. “And we didn't have the luxury for her not to work.
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The main diff between the Obamaloon and a septic tank is that the tank contains much less sh**.
Even then they barely saw each other. Beards - both of them.
He made a $186K and they couldn’t live on that?
That’s alright. We tax payers should pay for her lack of traveling, along with your daughters and all the family and all the security it takes.
We wouldn’t want her to feel under-privileged.
I think Obama spent more time in the Chicago bath houses than he did “practising law.”
I wonder if she's not “tucked in”.
Just sayin.
Exactly
Working Mom my you know what. It was a payoff. Did she even show up?
How much does Community Organizing pay?
LOL, there are some photos that seem to show that. But it could be one of those strap-on things.
So the 0blahblahs had to scrimp by on a measly $479,062/year. My God, just like Ma & Pa Joad, they had to leave the barren wasteland of Chicago , where Barry was barely scratching out a living organizing, and move to the land of milk and honey in DC.
Maybe we can call this one the Grapes of Trash
Her “job” was pure political patronage. It was created for her and abolished when she left. No real work was involved.
They couldn’t scrape by on 162K/yr,even in Chicago? This is grade A bullshite.
Tell me again how out of touch Romney is. At least he never poormouthed.
geez this guy is freakin’ clueless...
I wonder how many hours a week it took to “handle community affairs”.
I'm willing to bet those two line items alone would have gotten them a first class nanny with $$ to spare.
FWIW, when my daughter was working for a first class nanny agency, she was racking up more frequent flier miles to the Chicago, New York and Bay Areas just interviewing for various jobs than I was working in international business.
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