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Submitted by John Gilleeny, Feb 22, 2008 17:52

Born on January 17, 1964, Michelle Robinson was raised in a one-bedroom apartment on Chicago's South Shore.

She shared a bedroom with her brother, but it wasn't much of a bedroom. It was actually the living room with a divider down the middle. Michelle's father died in 1990 two years before she married Barack, but her mother is still alive and living in the same one-bedroom apartment, protected by a burglar-proof wrought-iron door and secured windows.

After high school Michelle Robinson majored in sociology at Princeton University, graduating with cum laude honors in 1985. From there she attended Harvard where she earned her law degree in 1988, one year ahead of her husband-to-be, Barack, whom she hadn't met yet but attended the same law school.

According to the couple's 2006 income tax return, Michelle's salary was $273,618 from the University of Chicago Hospitals, while he had a salary of $157,082 from the United States Senate. The total Obama income, however, was $991,296 including $51,200 she earned as a member of the board of directors of TreeHouse Foods, plus investments and royalties from his books.

Hmmm?... And Michelle could not find any pride in a country that afforded her the opportunity to be successful and participate in "The American Dream" ?? Her mother must surely be proud of her and this nation.

Curiously, Michelle's mother has somehow been deprived of the dream affored to her daughter, as she still lives in the same apartment protected by a burlar proof wraught iron door and secured windows. Who or what does Michelle's mother have to protect herself against ?

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