First Lady Michelle Obama, ever the self-indulgent star of her own soap opera, explains to street children in Mumbai -- kids who have to scavenge garbage for food -- how tough it was growing up in Chicago when you didn't have a "lot of money."I'm sure these kids were moved to tears by the tales of poor Michelle's bleak childhood.
But Michelle's got money now, by golly! And so the next stop in her itenerary was a shopping binge where she scarfed up "almost everything she came across.”
Remember how the mean-spirited American press used to chide Nancy Reagan for being extravagant? Goodness gracious, where are they in decrying the in-your-face intemperance of America's own Marie Antoinette?
Here's Jeannie DeAngelis from over at American Thinker describing our White House diva in one of her most boorish performances.
Besides hopscotch and freestyle Koli dancing, youthful firewood collectors, animal tenders, beggars, prostitutes, and street vendors listened intently as Michelle recounted personal hardships and sad stories about a beleaguered Chicago childhood. When not totally absorbed in Indian exhibition dancing, the First Lady related to those who subsist “amidst trash, animals and open sewers” a heritage replete with poverty.
Michelle said, “I didn’t grow up with a lot of money.” Reminding exploited youngsters that rough childhoods are not exclusive to India, Mrs. Obama exhorted those that sleep curled up on railroad platforms to follow her lead and make sure to get an education.
After presenting waifs with bags of stationery and “White House M&M sweets,” the First Lady put her very expensive Cynthia Vincent ballet flats back on and headed toward New Delhi on a one-woman mission to stimulate India’s economy.
Behaving like royalty in a dearth-plagued country filled with street urchins who oftentimes go without food, Mrs. Obama descended on the National Handicrafts and Handloom Museum in the Pragati Maidan complex. While there, the well-heeled First Lady disregarded the abject poverty beyond the walls of the museum and, for two hours, furthered diplomacy by procuring frivolous curios and trinkets.
According to museum director Ruchira Ghosh, “Michelle was so impressed with the Indian handicrafts on display that she did not want to leave the museum. She went on a shopping binge, buying almost everything she came across.”...
Those at the museum who watched in slack-jawed amazement related, “Michelle said she would have bought more had she been left with more money.” The “bought more if more money” sentiment is precisely the one held by Mumbai’s street children, as well as the millions of people that America's ambassadors to India, Michelle and Barry, left back home standing on an unending unemployment line.
