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Connecting Michelle Obama’s Dots

NOTE to readers: I’m trying a new formatting scheme in the following post. It is intended to help the reader connect the dots by highlighting the players in bold red and the groups (funds, institutions, etc.) in bold blue. We’ll see how it works. I’d appreciate feedback on the coloring scheme since, if it works, I’ll be using the same technique in an upcoming post exposing the connections between funds, groups, and people.
 
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Connecting Michelle Obama’s Dots  
 
We’re not talking about dots on that colorful and stylish polka-dotted frock she wore in Paris. We mean some of the under-the-radar dots of troubling information about our “Firstest with the Mostest” lady.

But before we launch into an expose of some lesser known facts that cast a not-so-favorable light on Mrs. Obama, consider this hypothetical situation (it may be hypothetical – but it could happen:
 
Let’s say that something happens to Barack.
[NOTE to Janet Napolitano and the Secret Service: I’m not suggesting anything untoward here, this IS a hypothetical scenario. Lord knows I already fit all of Napolitano’s criteria to qualify as a right-wing extremist.]

Let’s say that B. Hussein goes to heaven to give God a hand in organizing those pesky right-wingers still clinging to their guns.

What percentage of the country’s citizens would gladly accept MICHELLE as our new President (rather than Joe Biden)?
I’m guessing, easily a third. I bring this up to remind us that she is part of the Holy Duo, as worshipped by the flock as her husband The Messiah. And, at the same time, to illustrate how some of our citizens are so enamored with the Holy Duo that they would completely ignore the Constitution just to have a fashion icon, racially-correct President “representing” them.
Don’t scoff – if you disagree, just tell me where I’m wrong in making that statement.
Michelle is revered, just like Barack. Together, we have two attorneys, both graduating from Ivy-league universities, both clean, well-dressed, articulate, and intelligent, and both steeped in the seamy political corruption routinely practiced in Chicago. And need we mention that both are African-Americans.

Citizens would be wise to question everything relating to either of these two paradigms of virtue. As more becomes known about Michelle, it is evident that she is cut from the same cloth as Barack – anti-capitalistic, Saul Alinsky-following, neo-fascists.

And Michelle, as a liberal black woman, becomes practically bullet proof. Anyone who dares to insult her will be trampled by a herd of black ministers, civil rights leaders, NOW members, moveon.org, Huff Post, and church ladies in big hats.

But make no mistake, there are skeletons in Michelle’s expensive-shoe-filled, walk-in closet.

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Here’s a “for instance”:

On January 24th, 2009, there was a short column entitled "Replacing Michelle" in the National Review "The Week" column. Part of it was included in an e-mail that is making the rounds. The e-mail follows:

Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical center hired her in 2002 to run "programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting".

In 2005, the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317, 000 nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator. Oh, did we mention that her husband had just become a U.S. Senator? He sure had. And that he immediately requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact?... You betcha by golly... He surely did.

Way to network Michelle! But now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that possibly be? Especially if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000? They report that her workload has been absorbed by other employees. Isn’t that worrisome when the work done by a $317,000 employee can be absorbed by other employees, with no determent to the hospital? In the “real world,” that $317,000 position simply wouldn’t exist.

Oh, by the way, let me add that Michelle's position was a part time, 20 hour week job at $317,000.00 per year ! . And to think they were critical of Blagoyovich's wife for taking $100,000 in fuzzy real estate commission. Question is.. How did this bit of quid pro quo corruption escape the sharp reporters that dug through Sarah Palin's garbage and kindergarten files?

In the interest of fairness, most of the e-mail does appear to be accurate except the last paragraph. In fact, she did receive a reduction in pay when she reduced her work time to 20 hours a week. So the last paragraph is wrong – she did not continue the $317,000 salary when her work week was reduced to twenty hours.

Nevertheless, a raise of $195,052 is nothing to sneeze at - when’s the last time YOU got a raise of almost $200,000?

Maybe if your spouse had just been elected to a U.S. Senate seat ... and a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center might be in the cards? Maybe then?

Just a coincidence? Connect the dots.

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Michelle as a Distinguished Attorney?

During the past Presidential campaign, the state-owned media referred to Michelle Obama as a 'distinguished attorney" despite the fact that Michelle Obama has been "inactive" since 1993.

Checking the records of the Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) of the Supreme Court of Illinois, another Obama skeleton comes rattling out of the closet.

The Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission, an agency of the Illinois Supreme Court, is responsible for maintaining current records of registration and discipline information for lawyers licensed to practice in Illinois and investigating allegations of misconduct by lawyers.

Information as of June 18, 2009 at 12:23:36 PM, from the ARDC website. Here’s the link: https://www.iardc.org/index.html

Full Licensed Name:

Michelle Obama 

Full Former name(s):

Michelle Lavaughn Robinson 

Date of Admission as Lawyer
    by Illinois Supreme Court:

May 12, 1989 

Registered Business Address:

Not available online

Registered Business Phone:

Not available online 

Illinois Registration Status:

Voluntarily inactive and not authorized to practice law  - Last Registered Year: 1993

Malpractice Insurance:
(Current as of date of registration;
consult attorney for further information)

No malpractice report required as attorney is on court ordered inactive status. 

Public Record of Discipline
and Pending Proceedings:

None

You’ll note that no malpractice insurance is necessary because the attorney (Michelle) is on court ordered inactive status. She was not disbarred, but has not been licensed to practice law in Illinois since 1993.

It has been reported that she gave up her license in a deal to stop an investigation into corruption charges based on her $195,052 salary increase followed shortly thereafter by a $1,000,000 earmark to the hospital by her State Senate husband. It waddles and quacks like a Quid pro quo, doesn’t it?

How did the Obamas avoid an investigation? Connect the dots.

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The following are excerpts from an article by Michelle Malkin, June 19, 2009. Full article available at: http://michellemalkin.com/

The Obamacare horror story you won’t hear

The White House, Democrats, and MoveOn liberals are spreading health care sob stories to sell a government takeover. But there’s one health care policy nightmare you won’t hear the Obamas hyping. It’s a tale of poor, minority patient-dumping in Chicago - with First Lady Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over it.

Both Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and Democrat Rep. Bobby Rush of Chicago have raised red flags about the outsourcing program, run by the University of Chicago Medical Center.

The hospital has non-profit status and receives lucrative tax breaks in exchange for providing charity care. Yet, it spent a measly $10 million on charity care for the poor in fiscal 2007 when Mrs. Obama was Vice President of Community and External Affairs there - 1.3 percent of its total hospital expenses, according to an analysis performed for The Washington Post by the non-partisan Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. The figure is below the 2.1 percent average for nonprofit hospitals in surrounding Cook County.

Rep. Rush called for a House investigation in response to months of patient-dumping complaints. Don’t expect the president to support a probe though. While a top executive at the hospital, Mrs. Obama helped engineer the plan to offload low-income patients with non-urgent health needs. Under the Orwellian banner of an “Urban Health Initiative,” Mrs. Obama sold the scheme to outsource low-income care to other facilities as a way to “dramatically improve health care for thousands of South Side residents.”

In truth, it was old-fashioned cost-cutting and favor-trading repackaged as minority aid. Clearing out the poor freed up room for insured (i.e., more lucrative) patients and thereby increased revenue.

Joe Stephens of the Washington Post wrote: “To ensure community support, Michelle Obama and others in late 2006 recommended that the hospital hire the firm of David Axelrod, who a few months later became the chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Axelrod’s firm recommended an aggressive promotional effort modeled on a political campaign - appoint a campaign manager, conduct focus groups, target messages to specific constituencies, then recruit religious leaders and other third-party ‘validators.’ They, in turn, would write and submit opinion pieces to Chicago publications.”

The University of Chicago Medical Center hired Axelrod’s public relations firm, ASK Public Strategies, to promote Mrs. Obama’s Urban Health Initiative. This is the same David Axelrod who is now president Obama’s senior adviser at the White House. Axelrod had the blessing of Chicago political guru Valerie Jarrett (she was Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard Daley) – and is now also a White House senior adviser

In February 2009, outrage in the Obamas’ community exploded after a young boy covered by Medicaid was turned away from the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dontae Adams’ mother, Angela, had sought emergency treatment for him after a pit bull tore off his upper lip. Mrs. Obama’s hospital gave the boy a tetanus shot, antibiotics, and Tylenol and shoved him out the door.The mother and son had to take an hour-long bus ride to another hospital for surgery.

Following the Adams incident, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) blasted Mrs. Obama and Mr. Axelrod’s grand plan. The group released a statement expressing “grave concerns that the University of Chicago’s policy toward emergency patients is dangerously close to ‘patient dumping,’ a practice made illegal by the Emergency Medical Labor and Treatment Act (EMTALA).”

Corruption in Chicago? Oh My. Connect the dots.

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By now, everyone knows that Michelle worked at Sidley & Austinas an associate attorney from 1988 to 1991.

The law firm of Sidley & Austin was run by Howard Trienens, friend of Thomas Ayers, who was the father of Bill Ayers, and father-in-Law of Bernadine Dohrn.

Bernardine Dohrn was hired by Trieners and worked for Sidley & Austin from 1984 to 1988, while she unsuccessfully sought admission to the New York and Illinois bars. It appears that Dohrn first worked in Sidley’s New York office, and then in its Chicago office.

In 1989, Barack went to work as an intern at Sidley & Austin; Michelle Robinson (later to become Mrs. Obama), was assigned to be his mentor.

In 1991, Valerie Jarrett, Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Richard Daley, offers Michelle Robinson a job as Assistant to the Mayor. Michelle Robinson insists then-fiancé Barack Obama meet Valerie Jarrett. Michelle Robinson leaves Sidley & Austin and goes to work for Mayor Richard Daley, Jr,. Bernadine Dohrn goes to work at Northwestern University School of Law as an adjunct professor of law as a “Clinical Associate Professor of Law.”

Barack and Michelle get married in 1992. Barack directs Illinois’ Project Vote, a voter registration drive. Remember that Project Vote is the voter-mobilization arm of George Soros-funded ACORN. Barack begins teaching Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Together in 1992, Barack and Michelle founded the Chicago office of Public Allies. Michelleis named Executive Director of this group, which encouraged young people to work on social issues in nonprofit groups and government agencies. Barack goes to work as an associate for the law firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, which specializes in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development. Barrack gets on board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago.

Barack is placed on the board of directors of the Joyce Foundation in 1994.

Bill Ayers works with Mayor Richard Daley on the city’s school reform program. Ayers writes grant proposal for Chicago Annenberg Challenge and obtains $49.2 million over 5 years for public school reform. Even though his wife, Bernadine Dohrn says “I still see myself as a radical.”

Barack is selected as Founding President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Remember that Bill Ayers was the source of almost $50,000,000 in grant money that will fund the Challenge. Isn’t it logical that he would have had a say in hiring the initial President and Chairman of the Board?

Bill Ayers has Barack fundraiser and political coming out party in his home. Barack and Michelle Obama were both present.

In an interview published in 1995, Ayers characterized his political beliefs at that time and in the 1960s and 1970s: “I am a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist … [Laughs] Maybe I’m the last communist who is willing to admit it. [Laughs] We have always been small ‘c’ communists in the sense that we were never in the [Communist] party and never Stalinists. The ethics of Communism still appeal to me. I don’t like Lenin as much as the early Marx. I also like Henry David Thoreau, Mother Jones and Jane Addams […]”

In 1996, Michelle Obama goes to work for the University of Chicago as Associate Dean of Student Services. Barack is promoted to Senior Lecturer at University of Chicago. Barack elected to Illinois Senate. He is reported to be a member of the “New Party,” (Democrat Socialist Party). They proudly announce their member Barack Obama won his State Seat.

Michelle and Barack associating with communists, terrorists? A member of a Socialist organization? Connect the dots.

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And here is another great article by Michelle Malkin on Michelle Obama:

AmeriCrooks Watch: Meddling Michelle Obama to keynote volunteerism conference

By Michelle Malkin  •  June 20, 2009 10:47 AM   +   Following is the link  for the full article:

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/20/americrooks-watch-meddling-michelle-obama-to-keynote-volunteerism-conference/

Well, well, well.

Michelle, Michelle, Michelle.

Where will the First Lady be on Monday?

Why, she’ll be delivering the keynote address at the 2009 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in San Francisco.

And who is co-sponsoring the conference?

Why, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)! Yes, that’s the same CNCS that is the parent organization of AmeriCorps.

It’s the same CNCS that last year suspended Sacramento mayor/Obama crony Kevin Johnson from receiving federal funds after then-inspector general Gerald Walpin blew the whistle on massive fraud and abuse of AmeriCorps dollars for personal and political gain.

It’s the same CNCS that then sat by and meekly watched Team Obama and the U.S. Attorney in Sacramento railroad Walpin after the November 2008 election for doing his damned job.

And now, there is no honest, independent watchdog to raise questions on behalf of taxpayers as the Obama political machine takes over the national service juggernaut. How … convenient.

By the way: The First Lady’s former chief of staff, Jackie Norris, starts her new job as “senior adviser” (translation: Michelle O’s mole) at CNCS on Monday. And from the AmeriCorpspress release published yesterday:

“The First Lady has made service and volunteering a life calling, and her leadership is helping to inspire a whole new generation of Americans who are making service a part of their daily lives,” said Nicola Goren, Acting CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. “Her participation demonstrates the high priority the White House has placed on service as a way to help in our nation’s recovery.”

“First Lady Michelle Obama knows first-hand the power of service to transform lives and communities,” said Michelle Nunn, CEO of the Points of Light Institute and co-founder of HandsOn Network. “We are thrilled that she chose our national conference as the platform to launch United We Serve. She has made service a centerpiece of her agenda, and her appearance will add a burst of excitement and a new significance to this gathering of service leaders as well as our larger efforts to usher in a new era of service.”

I first raised questions about the First Lady’s meddling into the AmeriCrooks mess on June 12 after following up on little-noticed reports in the niche publication Youth Today detailing Mrs. Obama’s active role and interest in staffing the top management at CNCS. As I noted last week:

Mrs. Obama’s interest is more than passing. She ran the AmeriCorps-funded non-profit Public Allies in Chicago from 1993-1996 and served on its national board until 2001. Like so many of the AmeriCorps recipients investigated by the inspector general’s office over the years, Public Allies was found to have violated basic eligibility and compliance rules. A January 2007 auditreported that the group lacked internal controls verifying that recipients who received education grants and living allowances were legal citizens or permanent residents as required by law. [Sounds like ACORN, huh?]

Michelle Obama’s installation as the face and voice of the government volunteerism boondoggle only deepens suspicions about the role she and her staff may have played in Gerald Walpin’s sacking.

Guess who else was supposed to speak at the CNCS conference next week?

The supposedly dazed and confused Gerald Walpin.

Mr. Walpin said, on Tuesday June 9, just one day before the White House first asked him to step down, the agency asked him to make a speech on June 23 in San Francisco to a conference of some 2,000 staff members and grantees. The invitation, he said, was delivered by Gretchen Van De Veer, director of the Office of Leadership Development and Training at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS).

“They begged me to come,” he said. “Why would they do that if they thought I am incapacitated?”

Still connecting dots?

Is your Crayon down to a nub yet?

This piece is only the beginning …
 
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