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120 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography

have this running debate throughout our relationship about whether marriage was necessary,”
Obama told me. “It was sort of a bone of contention, because I was, like, ‘Look, buddy, I’m not one
of these who’ll just hang out forever.’ You know, that’s just not who I am. He was, like”—she
broke into a wishy-washy voice — ‘Marriage, it doesn’t mean anything, it’s really how you feel.’
And I was, like, ‘Yeah, right.’” (Jim Geraghty, “The Campaign Spot,” March 5, 2008)


At Obama’s wedding, his new brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, who had been an athlete at
Princeton, pulled him aside and inquired about his plans. Obama ‘“...said, ‘I think I’d like to teach
at some point in time, and maybe run for public office,” recalls Robinson, who assumed Obama
meant he’d like to run for city alderman. “He said no — at some point he’d like to run for the U.S.
Senate. And then he said, ‘Possibly even run for President at some point.’ And I was like, ‘Okay,
but don’t say that to my Aunt Gracie.’ I was protecting him from saying something that might
embarrass him.”’^25 Obama did not tell his brother in law that his self and his career were controlled
assets of the Trilateral Commission, his sponsors.


MICHELLE OBAMA AS A CREATURE OF THE CORRUPT DALEY MACHINE


Michelle had made her way in the world as an asset of the corrupt Chicago Democratic machine,
the Daley family machine. She was in her own way a ward heeler and wheel horse for Daley’s city
hall apparatus, with one key contact being Valerie Jarrett, a political fixer on the make. ‘Obama
went straight from Princeton to Harvard Law School. After graduating, she became a junior
associate, specializing in intellectual property law, at the Chicago firm of Sidley & Austin. She
worked there for three years, eventually becoming, as she says in her stump speech, disenchanted
with “corporate America.” Valerie Jarrett hired her as an assistant to the mayor, Richard Daley. “In
the planning department, part of her job was to help businesses solve problems,” Jarrett told me.
Sort of like a one-woman 311? “No, a 911,” Jarrett responded. “She made problems go away just
that fast.”


In 1993, she was appointed the founding director of the Chicago office of a public-service
program called Public Allies, which places young adults from diverse backgrounds in paid
internships with nonprofit organizations. An early appearance in the Chicago Tribune was in an
article about Gen X-ers. Obama told the reporter, “I wear jeans, and I’m the director.” Michelle and
Barack met at Sidley & Austin, when she was assigned to advise him during a summer job.
Michelle’s co-workers warned her that the summer associate was cute. “I figured that they were just
impressed with any black man with a suit and a job,” she later told Barack.’ (New Yorker, March
11, 2008) We see that Michelle, too, has a record of serving the foundations. Among other things,
Michelle embodies the fascist potential of generation X, which is an echo of the Lost Generation
born between 1885 and 1905 – the generation that gave the world Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin even
as it founded fascism.


THE BLACK OVERCLASS RAGE OF MICHELLE OBAMA


Reporters, even the drooling acolyte types, have observed that inordinate rage of the wealthy
elitist lawyer Michelle Obama. Early in 2008, she said that she wanted to assault and maim former
President Clinton: ‘In Wisconsin, I asked her if she was offended by Bill Clinton’s use of the phrase
“fairy tale” to describe her husband’s characterization of his position on the Iraq War. At first,
Obama responded with a curt “No.” But, after a few seconds, she affected a funny voice. “I want to
rip his eyes out!” she said, clawing at the air with her fingernails. One of her advisers gave her a

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