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To: Sr K who wrote (250603)	5/19/2008 3:04:09 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

It began when her father became a ward healer in the Chicago machine. when do you think "her own enormously privileged life" started?

To: Sr K who wrote (250603)	5/19/2008 4:11:12 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

When she got into Princeton? Or when she graduated after writing a thesis that did not discard her past but faced it head-on? She got into Princeton as a legacy student because her (from all descriptions, more talented) older brother had been there first. She did not have the test scores to make it on merit. Her thesis did not face any kind of past but was about being black at Princeton, another low-effort whine immune to criticism from guilty white liberals. Then she got paid six figures to become a "community outreach" person at the local hospital, and her salary was tripled when her husband became a senator. A good investment for the hospital as it turned out, for a million-dollar earmark came straight back to them from the new Senator Obama. This is privilege of the old-fashioned kind - Vitamin P - not what you know but who you know - with a dose of affirmative action tossed in. The privilege comes in when Michelle Obama is given the place and some more qualified but less well-connected candidate is refused.