posted September 10, 2008 08:22 AM            

Let's see.

Michelle Obama works for a hospital making about $121,000 per year.

Michelle gets a title change and a raise to $316,000...in one jump.

O'Bomber lays Senate earmarked cash on Michelle's hospital employer. Oh, did I say Senate cash...well, it's not really Senate cash, it's taxpayer cash.

Now, if we could only get O'Bomber to earmark some of his own cash for his brother...hell, only $12 per year would double his brother's income...

Thursday, March 13, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

One of Obama's Earmark Requests Was for the Hospital That Employs Michelle Obama

Dan Riehl notes, via Amanda Carpenter, that in the list of earmarks he requested, $1 million was requested for the construction of a new hospital pavilion at the University Of Chicago. The request was put in in 2006.

You know who works for the University of Chicago Hospital?

Michelle Obama. She's vice president of community affairs.

As Byron noted, "In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office."