Originally Posted by Canada Free Press - 7/07/09

First Lady requires more than twenty attendants
Dr. Paul L. Williams


“In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,” she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service, “ Michelle Obama

No, Michele Obama does not get paid to serve as the First Lady and she doesn’t perform any official duties. But this hasn’t deterred her from hiring an unprecedented number of staffers to cater to her every whim and to satisfy her every request in the midst of the Great Recession. Just think Mary Lincoln was taken to task for purchasing china for the White House during the Civil War. And Mamie Eisenhower had to shell out the salary for her personal secretary.

How things have changed! If you’re one of the tens of millions of Americans facing certain destitution, earning less than subsistence wages stocking the shelves at Wal-Mart or serving up McDonald cheeseburgers, prepare to scream and then come to realize that the benefit package for these servants of Miz Michele are the same as members of the national security and defense departments and the bill for these assorted lackeys is paid by John Q. Public:

$172,2000 - Sher, Susan (CHIEF OF STAFF)
$140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (DEPUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
$113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND WHITE HOUSE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
$102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
Winter, Melissa E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT AND DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
$90,000 - Medina, David S. (DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
$84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (DIRECTOR AND PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
$75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND ADVANCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
$70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND PROJECTS FOR THE FIRST LADY)
$65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
Reinstein, Joseph B. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY SOCIAL SECRETARY)
$62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
$60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ADVANCE AND TRIP DIRECTOR FOR THE FIRST LADY)
Lewis, Dana M. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT AND PERSONAL AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
$52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR AND DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TO THE FIRST LADY)
$50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (SPECIAL ASSISTANT FOR SCHEDULING AND TRAVELING AIDE TO THE FIRST LADY)
$45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)
Tubman, Samantha (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR,SOCIAL OFFICE)
$40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE FIRST LADY)
$36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE SOCIAL SECRETARY)
Bookey, Natalie (STAFF ASSISTANT)
Jackson, Deilia A. (DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE FIRST LADY)

Originally Posted by Canada Free Press

We were wrong.

Michelle Obama, as we reported on July 7, is not served by twenty-two attendants who stand by to cater to her every whim.

She is served by twenty-six attendants, including a hair dresser and make-up artist.

The annual cost to taxpayers for such unprecedented attention is approximately $1,750,000 without taking into account the expense of the lavish benefit packages afforded to every attendant.

Little did American voters realize the call for “change” would result in the establishment of an Obama oligarchy.

The discovery of the additional attendants was made by D’Angelo Gore of factcheck.org and by calls to Katie McCormick Lelyyeld, Michelle Obama’s press secretary.

Mr. Gore launched his investigation of the First Lady’s staff in the wake of an article that appeared on thelastcrusade.org and Canada Free Press on July 7.

The article, which became a chain letter viewed by millions of Americans, reported that Michelle Obama requires more than twenty attendants - - more than any First Lady in U.S. History. It provided the following list of White House staff members assigned to the First Lady:

$172,2000 - Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
$140,000 - Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
$113,000 - Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
$102,000 - Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
$102,000 - Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
$90,000 - Medina, David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
$84,000 - Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
$75,000 - Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
$70,000 - Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
$65,000 - Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
$65,000 - Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
$62,000 - Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
$60,000 - Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
$60,000 - Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
$52,500 - Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary To The First Lady)
$50,000 - Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide To The First Lady)
$45,000 - Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
$45,000 - Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
$40,000 - Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
$36,000 - Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
$36,000 - Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
$36,000 - Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady)
Readers throughout the country expressed outrage that Mrs. Obama would hire an unprecedented number of staffers in the midst of the Great Recession.

Originally Posted by bornl33t

I'm going to make a prediction here

drg will show up and say

"your wrong"
"conservatives are the devil"
"capitalism is hell"

then when you try to argue with him he'll say

"your facts were established by a institution with bias"

I'm going to start right now by saying

Your wrong

and your facts are biased

Originally Posted by BobTheCow

I'm not picking sides one way or the other, but if you're going to argue the ignorance clause, please don't screw up grammar in regards to "you're" four times in a post.

Originally Posted by teufelhunden

Well, in fairness, there were three uses of "your" but only four were incorrect. The second instance is proper usage ("your facts..." is possessive and accordingly, should not be "you are/you're")


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Originally Posted by bornl33t

I'm going to make a prediction here

drg will show up and say

"your wrong"
"conservatives are the devil"
"capitalism is hell"

then when you try to argue with him he'll say

"your facts were established by a institution with bias"

I'm going to start right now by saying

Your wrong

and your facts are biased

Originally Posted by bornl33t

I'm going to start right now by saying

Your wrong

and your facts are biased

Originally Posted by Tunaman

She needs them all. It takes a lot to get a Silver Back looking pretty. And after all of their efforts, she is still ugly as sin...
Kinda like putting lipstick on a pig...

Originally Posted by grEnAlEins

Also one was a direct quote, so I'll give BL the benefit of the doubt and assume he left out the "[sic]" after the quote

Originally Posted by drg

Not too smart to give the benefit of the doubt to a person who obviously has no idea what the difference between your and you're is. You would not find a direct quote from me confusing the two because I don't. Language precision is an indicator of intelligence, IMO, particularly on the basic level "your vs. you're" represents.

Originally Posted by Tunaman

She needs them all. It takes a lot to get a Silver Back looking pretty. And after all of their efforts, she is still ugly as sin...
Kinda like putting lipstick on a pig...

Originally Posted by drg

Not too smart to give the benefit of the doubt to a person who obviously has no idea what the difference between your and you're is. You would not find a direct quote from me confusing the two because I don't. Language precision is an indicator of intelligence, IMO, particularly on the basic level "your vs. you're" represents.

Originally Posted by Will Wood

I have not read a post in this thread.

I saw DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF SCHEDULING AND EVENTS COORDINATOR FOR THE FIRST LADY.

Seriously. That's a really long title.

That is all I have to say. I tend to avoid political thread. But wtf. That name is too long.

Originally Posted by grEnAlEins

Language precision is an indicator of training. Intelligence and education are not one and the same, though the can be and often are related.

Originally Posted by wetwrks

Correct. I was messed over for life in spelling as public schools originally taught me to read and write phoenetically.

Knight = nit
knife = nif
(there should be a hard bar over the i in both of those examples instead of the dot)

As for intelligence...I am the fellow who found a mistake in the Mensa handbook.

Originally Posted by ArmyEngineer

Fact for the day:
The dot over the i or other diacritic mark is called a tittle. That's a great word.

Originally Posted by Tunaman

She needs them all. It takes a lot to get a Silver Back looking pretty. And after all of their efforts, she is still ugly as sin...
Kinda like putting lipstick on a pig...