Michelle Obama's job eliminated

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just learned that once Mrs. Obama left her 300,000$ plus University of Chicago position the job was eliminated.... So how vital was this high salary position then to their operations? So many of my friends make so much of the fact that President Obama turned down all kinds of money as a Harvard grad to be a 'community organizer' ""with the people""" - but I find that undercut if his wife's position was a pay for play sinecure, plus the million dollar home, the girls in private school etc. etc. Sheesh..not so inspirational to me at least.

http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/michelle-obamas-job-eliminated,2486

I don't see how it could be true. She had the job two year before he was elected to the Senate. Unless maybe they were trying to impress a state senator. How do people come up with these things?

Chicago is famous for its 'machine'. Obviously the Obamas have merits, but to imagine that they didn't have some helping hands from here to there is pretty funny. What is disgraceful is if positions (like Mrs. Obama's) were created specifically for that purpose. How a 300,00 + job was necessary and needed, but evaporates overnight is odd to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just learned that once Mrs. Obama left her 300,000$ plus University of Chicago position the job was eliminated.... So how vital was this high salary position then to their operations? So many of my friends make so much of the fact that President Obama turned down all kinds of money as a Harvard grad to be a 'community organizer' ""with the people""" - but I find that undercut if his wife's position was a pay for play sinecure, plus the million dollar home, the girls in private school etc. etc. Sheesh..not so inspirational to me at least.

http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/michelle-obamas-job-eliminated,2486

I don't see how it could be true. She had the job two year before he was elected to the Senate. Unless maybe they were trying to impress a state senator. How do people come up with these things?

Chicago is famous for its 'machine'. Obviously the Obamas have merits, but to imagine that they didn't have some helping hands from here to there is pretty funny. What is disgraceful is if positions (like Mrs. Obama's) were created specifically for that purpose. How a 300,00 + job was necessary and needed, but evaporates overnight is odd to me.

It's very simple. Her duties were passed on to someone else. The work is still being done, there just isn't a sole position any longer for it. This is very common and if you didn;t know that before, now you do.

[Anonymous]

Well, thank you for that. So why were her duties not being done by these other people before?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, thank you for that. So why were her duties not being done by these other people before?

Well DC Government, MCounty, PG County and the State of Maryland recently riffed hundreds of jobs. The first positions to go were the vacancies. After the vacancies, individual people received what is commonly known in the working industry as pink slips. Now these poor unfortunate souls who received pink slips or rif notices were performing their duties, but the economy sucks and there are deficits everywhere. Maybe you read about them in the newspapers or online. I'm sorry, I digress. Well the funny thing is, the work still needs to get performed. So now, you have people performing two and three jobs as they are now performing the functions and duties of those individuals who were unfortunate to lose their jobs. I would venture that Ms. Obama's position was folded into another HR function and someone is now with the task of performing their regular duties and Ms. Obama's prior duties. Depending on how demanding Ms. Obama's job entailed, there is a possibility that the duties were split between two people. Either way, somebody's workload increased, but I bet their salary has not. BTDT in both the receiving and issuing department

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, thank you for that. So why were her duties not being done by these other people before?

Probably they distributed the work to others to avoid laying some people off. Happens all the time in this economy.

[Anonymous]

Maybe they were attracted to the diversity (black Ivy League-educated woman attorney from the 'hood) she added.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has pay for play all over it; and sorry--you don't get points for community organizer nobility when your wife is raking in cash from people seeking future influence to subsidize your current 'sacrifice'. The more I learn about the Obamas' history, the less I am impressed by the reality that their promise translated into.

You are so full of it. Let me count the ways.

1. She got the job before he was a senator. At best she got a one title promotion. Big whoop. Wanna do some comparisons with recent republican pay for play scandals?
2. Your kind doesn't give points for the position of "community organizer" anyway.
3. I don't see how his wife making money has anything to do with whether his work had merit. The point was not that he was taking a vow of poverty. The point was that he took a big career risk to do something he felt was important, when his peers were taking advantage of their degrees to set themselves up for the best career paths out there.
4. He started organizing in 1985. He hadn't even met his wife then. I mean, WTF?
5. His community organizing is kicking your party's ass. They are scared shitless because they lost the upper hand on grassroots organizing and they know it.

[Anonymous]

She's middle class, President Obama is upper class-neither is exactly from the hood

That is fine; I will accept that the position is above-board and that they are the first/only (?) Chicago pols to completely escape the fabled Chicago machine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has pay for play all over it; and sorry--you don't get points for community organizer nobility when your wife is raking in cash from people seeking future influence to subsidize your current 'sacrifice'. The more I learn about the Obamas' history, the less I am impressed by the reality that their promise translated into.

You are so full of it. Let me count the ways.

1. She got the job before he was a senator. At best she got a one title promotion. Big whoop. Wanna do some comparisons with recent republican pay for play scandals?
2. Your kind doesn't give points for the position of "community organizer" anyway.
3. I don't see how his wife making money has anything to do with whether his work had merit. The point was not that he was taking a vow of poverty. The point was that he took a big career risk to do something he felt was important, when his peers were taking advantage of their degrees to set themselves up for the best career paths out there.
4. He started organizing in 1985. He hadn't even met his wife then. I mean, WTF?
5. His community organizing is kicking your party's ass. They are scared shitless because they lost the upper hand on grassroots organizing and they know it.

Sure, do a comparison. Why on earth would I support corrupt Republicans?

Sorry--a big career risk pre-law school? Sounds like a generation of yuppies I know doing a few years "in the trenches" before going on to their 'real' careers. It's called a resume builder. Maybe if he had gone and lived with the little sisters of the poor for ten years...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has pay for play all over it; and sorry--you don't get points for community organizer nobility when your wife is raking in cash from people seeking future influence to subsidize your current 'sacrifice'. The more I learn about the Obamas' history, the less I am impressed by the reality that their promise translated into.

You are so full of it. Let me count the ways.

1. She got the job before he was a senator. At best she got a one title promotion. Big whoop. Wanna do some comparisons with recent republican pay for play scandals?
2. Your kind doesn't give points for the position of "community organizer" anyway.
3. I don't see how his wife making money has anything to do with whether his work had merit. The point was not that he was taking a vow of poverty. The point was that he took a big career risk to do something he felt was important, when his peers were taking advantage of their degrees to set themselves up for the best career paths out there.
4. He started organizing in 1985. He hadn't even met his wife then. I mean, WTF?
5. His community organizing is kicking your party's ass. They are scared shitless because they lost the upper hand on grassroots organizing and they know it.

Sure, do a comparison. Why on earth would I support corrupt Republicans?

Sorry--a big career risk pre-law school? Sounds like a generation of yuppies I know doing a few years "in the trenches" before going on to their 'real' careers. It's called a resume builder. Maybe if he had gone and lived with the little sisters of the poor for ten years...

Doesn't matter. There's nothing he could've done that you would think is good enough. You would just find something else to pick at. Besides his life is very successful. Why should he have done anything differently? Very few people make it as far as he did in life. The President of the United States is not exactly a shabby position, you know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has pay for play all over it; and sorry--you don't get points for community organizer nobility when your wife is raking in cash from people seeking future influence to subsidize your current 'sacrifice'. The more I learn about the Obamas' history, the less I am impressed by the reality that their promise translated into.

You are so full of it. Let me count the ways.

1. She got the job before he was a senator. At best she got a one title promotion. Big whoop. Wanna do some comparisons with recent republican pay for play scandals?
2. Your kind doesn't give points for the position of "community organizer" anyway.
3. I don't see how his wife making money has anything to do with whether his work had merit. The point was not that he was taking a vow of poverty. The point was that he took a big career risk to do something he felt was important, when his peers were taking advantage of their degrees to set themselves up for the best career paths out there.
4. He started organizing in 1985. He hadn't even met his wife then. I mean, WTF?
5. His community organizing is kicking your party's ass. They are scared shitless because they lost the upper hand on grassroots organizing and they know it.

Sure, do a comparison. Why on earth would I support corrupt Republicans?

Sorry--a big career risk pre-law school? Sounds like a generation of yuppies I know doing a few years "in the trenches" before going on to their 'real' careers. It's called a resume builder. Maybe if he had gone and lived with the little sisters of the poor for ten years...

Your point can only be valid if "community organizer" is worthwhile enough to be a resume builder. I will concede the point if you respond saying that you are impressed with the skills one learns in the trenches as a community organizer. Otherwise, you are still full of it.

[Anonymous]

The Obamas have succeeded beyond expectations, at living the American dream. Whatever they did for idealistic reasons, good for them. Whatever was calculated to contribute to their success, with or without help from the Chicago machine, was skillfully calculated.

Call them smart, lucky, blessed, or pawns of the liberal cabal, depending on your viewpoint. But realize that the only information being put forth is about that viewpoint; we already know all the stuff about BO & MO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just learned that once Mrs. Obama left her 300,000$ plus University of Chicago position the job was eliminated.... So how vital was this high salary position then to their operations? So many of my friends make so much of the fact that President Obama turned down all kinds of money as a Harvard grad to be a 'community organizer' ""with the people""" - but I find that undercut if his wife's position was a pay for play sinecure, plus the million dollar home, the girls in private school etc. etc. Sheesh..not so inspirational to me at least.

http://www.cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/michelle-obamas-job-eliminated,2486

When I left my job the position was eliminated, too.

Your point?

I think the point is that you are an a**hole looking for any reason to sling sh*t at the Obamas. Am I warm?

[Anonymous]

That was lovely. Your hero must be very proud of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That was lovely. Your hero must be very proud of you.

Oh, yawn.

And you just made the point. Again.