MICHELLE OBAMA THESIS - THE TRUTH There are two threads that I know of recycling fictional "quotes" from the thesis of Michelle Obama.
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Post Date: 2008-04-15 20:50:30 by Jethro Tull
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Post Date: 2008-05-08 16:20:50 by Jethro Tull
If she had made the statements claimed, it would have been all over the MSM. It wasn't. The alleged statements include some fictional "quotes" and some bastardized "quotes."
FIRST, the FICTIONAL quotes:
In her senior thesis at Princeton University, Michelle LaVaughn, the future wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, stated that America was a nation founded on “crime and hatred.” Moreover, she stated that whites in America were “ineradicably racist.” The 1985 thesis, entitled Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community, was written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn.
There is NO occurrence of the word crime in the thesis. There is NO occurrence of the word hatred in the thesis.
There is NO occurrence of the word ineradicably in the thesis.
There is ONE occurrence of the word racism in the thesis. It appears within the cited title of a source publication in footnote 1 on page 7: "1 Pierre van den Berghe, Race and Racism, (New York: Wiley), 1967: p. 35"
Her maiden name was Michelle Robinson. Her middle name was, and remains, LaVaughan. Her signature on the thesis is "Michelle Robinson." The full printed name is Michelle LaVaughan Robinson.
An attack paragraph states:
“There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit the black community first and foremost.” She seems to justify those feelings with what she claims to see on the other side of the issue: “Predominantly white universities like Princeton are socially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the white students, comprising the bulk of their enrollments.”
Michelle added in her thesis that to “whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, [I] will always be black first.”
This is from page 2. The full, original paragraph reads as follows: Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost. My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my "Blackness" than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with Whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be Black first and a student second.
The above attack paragraph appears contrived and selectively incomplete. Another attack paragraph states:
I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with Whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that Black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the Black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility.
This is from page 63. The full passage is as follows: I began this study questionning my own attitudes as a future alumnus. I wondered whether or not my education at Princeton would affect my identification with the Black community. I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with Whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that Black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the Black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility. Findings show that some respondents did experience a change in their attitudes over the periods of time indicated in this study. By studying respondents who did change, it was shown that respondents' experiences while attending Princeton caused their identification with Blacks and the Black community to increase as their identification with Whites and the White community decreased. However, after Princeton, respondents' experienced the opposite change in attitude; their identification with Blacks and the Black community decreased as their identification with Whites and
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the White community increased. Thus, these findings suggest that respondents who experience change as a result of their Princeton experiences are likely to identify less with Blacks and the Black community in comparison to Whites and the Whites community.
It is important to note that it is impossible for me to generalize these findings for all Black Princeton alumni because the sample for this study was much too small to make any kind of generalizations. Therefore, I am only able to draw conclusions from these findings for the respondents to my questionnaire.
[emphasis added.] This is brought to all as a public service to educate the racist pinheads concerned anti-Marxist patriots.
Oh. And on the White GOP side, Cindy McCain is being given a free ride by these pinheads. Of course, she was an admitted drug addict for years. She became a drug addict while a mother of three young children with John McCain. While a drug addict, she adopted a fourth child, obviously not being entirely candid with any adoption agency. She stole drugs to support her habit. She stole them from her own charity, American Voluntary Medical Team (AVMT). She doctor-shopped with the volunteer doctors. She used bogus prescriptions to obtain drugs in the name of friends without their knowledge. We should elect John McCain to get tough on drugs and give prison time to offenders.
Cindy blamed knee and back pain, and the pressure of the Keating Five scandal. Aw heck, there's no pressure in the White House.
Cindy could talk about her drug addiction. But her income tax returns - now that's just getting too private.
The Michelle Obama thesis is available online in four parts at Politico since February. Johan Goldberg noted on 2/19/2008 that Princeton would not release it. Politico contacted the Obama campaign and the Obama campaign released it by 2/22/2008.
PART 1: http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf
PART 2: http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_26-501.pdf
PART 3: http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_51-751.pdf
PART 4: http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_51-751.pdf