Strange Obama Coincidence

 Michelle Obama

    Here is something that makes you go hmmm.  According to the National Review Online, there are some amazing coincidences between an earmark of Sen. Barack Obama’s and Michelle Obama getting a raise of almost $200,000. The Obama’s are poor, just like Jeremiah Wright said.

One of Obama’s Earmarks Went to 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.”

Looks like that raise was worth it.

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