Michelle Obama has worked....for 300K !

[buckeye45_73]

Realty check for our intellectually bankrupt and willfully ignorant neocon/teabagger punditry and bloggers:
On Jan. 9, 2009, the University of Chicago Medical Center officially announced that Michelle Obama had resigned from her post as vice president for community and external affairs to join her husband, then-President-elect Barack Obama, in the White House as the new first lady of the United States.

Michelle Obama had been promoted in 2005 to vice president for community and external affairs after three years as the executive director for community affairs. It’s true, as the e-mail (and National Review column) says, that she received a sizable pay raise that year. She went from earning $121,910 in 2004 as an executive director at the hospital to making $316,962 in 2005 as a vice president, according to tax returns filed by the Obamas for those years. But the suggestion made by the email’s author – and not made by the National Review – that she was being paid more than $300,000 for a "20 hour a week job" is not true.

University of Chicago Medical Center spokesman John Easton said Mrs. Obama didn’t reduce her work schedule from full time to part time until 2007 when it became clear that her husband would run for president. "As she reduced her hours, beginning early in 2007, her salary decreased proportionately," Easton told us in an e-mail. "She switched to half time shortly before her husband formally announced his campaign, then to 20% later that year and to 0% in 2008."

In fact, Mrs. Obama’s income in 2006, a year after her promotion, had decreased to $273,618. And for 2007 (the year she actually started working part-time), her income was $103,633, according to the couple’s tax return for that year. She took an "unpaid leave of absence to work on her husband’s presidential campaign" in 2008, but still received $62,709 from the hospital. However, Easton noted that her final reported salary "consists of accumulated but unused vacation time plus the final payout from a supplemental executive retirement plan."

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.



Second, the column implies that her "networking" was what caused her then-senator husband to request a "$1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center" back in 2006. But that’s unsubstantiated also. He did request the funds for the "construction of a new hospital pavilion" at the University of Chicago, but both Obama and hospital officials denied that the request was influenced by his wife’s position. And during the campaign, Obama’s aides were quick to point out that the request was one of many projects that the former senator made in 2005 and 2006 that were killed by Congress.

FactCheck.org : Michelle Obama’s Salary

How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000?" It’s true that after her departure, the hospital did not fill the position of vice president for community and external affairs.
She did at one time make $300k. Ok so the story was off by dollar figures, but she made $100k for nothing? AND they didnt fill the position? Why not? It's amazing that you find no issue with this. Liberals complain about this stuff all the time. Conservatives dont really care, if it's a private business.

 

[Old Rocks]

Buckass, you just had your lying post refuted.

 

[theHawk]

FactCheck.org : Michelle Obama’s Salary

She makes Anne Romney look like a rich stay at home idiot.Like Barack, smart as HELL with a personality to match. Sorry about your luck, dupes. Thousands of Pubcrappe stories for the dupes. Give it up, chumps- change the channel.

Your link still doesn't explain what "work" she actually did. Funny how a $300k job had its duties "absorbed" by others when she left.

And how the fuck is a lawyer qualified to be a "vice president for community and external affairs"?

$100k for a "part-time" job....

You libs will make any excuse lol.

 

[taichiliberal]

Realty check for our intellectually bankrupt and willfully ignorant neocon/teabagger punditry and bloggers:
On Jan. 9, 2009, the University of Chicago Medical Center officially announced that Michelle Obama had resigned from her post as vice president for community and external affairs to join her husband, then-President-elect Barack Obama, in the White House as the new first lady of the United States.

Michelle Obama had been promoted in 2005 to vice president for community and external affairs after three years as the executive director for community affairs. It’s true, as the e-mail (and National Review column) says, that she received a sizable pay raise that year. She went from earning $121,910 in 2004 as an executive director at the hospital to making $316,962 in 2005 as a vice president, according to tax returns filed by the Obamas for those years. But the suggestion made by the email’s author – and not made by the National Review – that she was being paid more than $300,000 for a "20 hour a week job" is not true.

University of Chicago Medical Center spokesman John Easton said Mrs. Obama didn’t reduce her work schedule from full time to part time until 2007 when it became clear that her husband would run for president. "As she reduced her hours, beginning early in 2007, her salary decreased proportionately," Easton told us in an e-mail. "She switched to half time shortly before her husband formally announced his campaign, then to 20% later that year and to 0% in 2008."

In fact, Mrs. Obama’s income in 2006, a year after her promotion, had decreased to $273,618. And for 2007 (the year she actually started working part-time), her income was $103,633, according to the couple’s tax return for that year. She took an "unpaid leave of absence to work on her husband’s presidential campaign" in 2008, but still received $62,709 from the hospital. However, Easton noted that her final reported salary "consists of accumulated but unused vacation time plus the final payout from a supplemental executive retirement plan."

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.



Second, the column implies that her "networking" was what caused her then-senator husband to request a "$1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center" back in 2006. But that’s unsubstantiated also. He did request the funds for the "construction of a new hospital pavilion" at the University of Chicago, but both Obama and hospital officials denied that the request was influenced by his wife’s position. And during the campaign, Obama’s aides were quick to point out that the request was one of many projects that the former senator made in 2005 and 2006 that were killed by Congress.

FactCheck.org : Michelle Obama’s Salary

How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000?" It’s true that after her departure, the hospital did not fill the position of vice president for community and external affairs.
She did at one time make $300k. Ok so the story was off by dollar figures, but she made $100k for nothing? AND they didnt fill the position? Why not? It's amazing that you find no issue with this. Liberals complain about this stuff all the time. Conservatives dont really care, if it's a private business.

Once more for the mentally challenged:

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.

And since the job described is hardly "nothing", I dare say it's amazing how willfully ignorant neocon parrots like yourself have NOTHING to say about the exhorbitant salaries and golden parachutes of bankers and insurance company CEO's who FAILED THEIR CUSTOMERS (the people of the USA, bunky).

Now STFU, go back and READ CAREFULLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY THE ENTIRE ARTICLE....then grow a pair and deal with the FACT that the OP was WRONG!

 

[hortysir]

I thought liberals hated those that make more than $200k

 

[francoHFW]

That's what smart lawyers from Princeton/Yale with a personality MAKE FERCHRISSAKE. JFC.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Realty check for our intellectually bankrupt and willfully ignorant neocon/teabagger punditry and bloggers:
On Jan. 9, 2009, the University of Chicago Medical Center officially announced that Michelle Obama had resigned from her post as vice president for community and external affairs to join her husband, then-President-elect Barack Obama, in the White House as the new first lady of the United States.

Michelle Obama had been promoted in 2005 to vice president for community and external affairs after three years as the executive director for community affairs. It’s true, as the e-mail (and National Review column) says, that she received a sizable pay raise that year. She went from earning $121,910 in 2004 as an executive director at the hospital to making $316,962 in 2005 as a vice president, according to tax returns filed by the Obamas for those years. But the suggestion made by the email’s author – and not made by the National Review – that she was being paid more than $300,000 for a "20 hour a week job" is not true.

University of Chicago Medical Center spokesman John Easton said Mrs. Obama didn’t reduce her work schedule from full time to part time until 2007 when it became clear that her husband would run for president. "As she reduced her hours, beginning early in 2007, her salary decreased proportionately," Easton told us in an e-mail. "She switched to half time shortly before her husband formally announced his campaign, then to 20% later that year and to 0% in 2008."

In fact, Mrs. Obama’s income in 2006, a year after her promotion, had decreased to $273,618. And for 2007 (the year she actually started working part-time), her income was $103,633, according to the couple’s tax return for that year. She took an "unpaid leave of absence to work on her husband’s presidential campaign" in 2008, but still received $62,709 from the hospital. However, Easton noted that her final reported salary "consists of accumulated but unused vacation time plus the final payout from a supplemental executive retirement plan."

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.



Second, the column implies that her "networking" was what caused her then-senator husband to request a "$1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center" back in 2006. But that’s unsubstantiated also. He did request the funds for the "construction of a new hospital pavilion" at the University of Chicago, but both Obama and hospital officials denied that the request was influenced by his wife’s position. And during the campaign, Obama’s aides were quick to point out that the request was one of many projects that the former senator made in 2005 and 2006 that were killed by Congress.

FactCheck.org : Michelle Obama’s Salary

How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000?" It’s true that after her departure, the hospital did not fill the position of vice president for community and external affairs.
She did at one time make $300k. Ok so the story was off by dollar figures, but she made $100k for nothing? AND they didnt fill the position? Why not? It's amazing that you find no issue with this. Liberals complain about this stuff all the time. Conservatives dont really care, if it's a private business.

Once more for the mentally challenged:

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.

And since the job described is hardly "nothing", I dare say it's amazing how willfully ignorant neocon parrots like yourself have NOTHING to say about the exhorbitant salaries and golden parachutes of bankers and insurance company CEO's who FAILED THEIR CUSTOMERS (the people of the USA, bunky).

Now STFU, go back and READ CAREFULLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY THE ENTIRE ARTICLE....then grow a pair and deal with the FACT that the OP was WRONG!

mentally challenged? I'm so glad you brought that up. Liberals never parse a salary when talking about those evil rich republicans, they just kind of throw it all in one big pot. Interesting on how you now break down the salary.

and how about that $100k for part time work, just an average part time job, eh?

 

[taichiliberal]

FactCheck.org : Michelle Obama’s Salary

She makes Anne Romney look like a rich stay at home idiot.Like Barack, smart as HELL with a personality to match. Sorry about your luck, dupes. Thousands of Pubcrappe stories for the dupes. Give it up, chumps- change the channel.

Your link still doesn't explain what "work" she actually did. Funny how a $300k job had its duties "absorbed" by others when she left.

And how the fuck is a lawyer qualified to be a "vice president for community and external affairs"?

$100k for a "part-time" job....

You libs will make any excuse lol.

READ CAREFULLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY, bunky:
Michelle Obama had been promoted in 2005 to vice president for community and external affairs after three years as the executive director for community affairs. It’s true, as the e-mail (and National Review column) says, that she received a sizable pay raise that year. She went from earning $121,910 in 2004 as an executive director at the hospital to making $316,962 in 2005 as a vice president, according to tax returns filed by the Obamas for those years. But the suggestion made by the email’s author – and not made by the National Review – that she was being paid more than $300,000 for a "20 hour a week job" is not true.

University of Chicago Medical Center spokesman John Easton said Mrs. Obama didn’t reduce her work schedule from full time to part time until 2007 when it became clear that her husband would run for president. "As she reduced her hours, beginning early in 2007, her salary decreased proportionately," Easton told us in an e-mail. "She switched to half time shortly before her husband formally announced his campaign, then to 20% later that year and to 0% in 2008."

In fact, Mrs. Obama’s income in 2006, a year after her promotion, had decreased to $273,618. And for 2007 (the year she actually started working part-time), her income was $103,633, according to the couple’s tax return for that year. She took an "unpaid leave of absence to work on her husband’s presidential campaign" in 2008, but still received $62,709 from the hospital. However, Easton noted that her final reported salary "consists of accumulated but unused vacation time plus the final payout from a supplemental executive retirement plan."

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.

 

[buckeye45_73]

FactCheck.org : Michelle Obama’s Salary

She makes Anne Romney look like a rich stay at home idiot.Like Barack, smart as HELL with a personality to match. Sorry about your luck, dupes. Thousands of Pubcrappe stories for the dupes. Give it up, chumps- change the channel.

Your link still doesn't explain what "work" she actually did. Funny how a $300k job had its duties "absorbed" by others when she left.

And how the fuck is a lawyer qualified to be a "vice president for community and external affairs"?

$100k for a "part-time" job....

You libs will make any excuse lol.

READ CAREFULLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY, bunky:
Michelle Obama had been promoted in 2005 to vice president for community and external affairs after three years as the executive director for community affairs. It’s true, as the e-mail (and National Review column) says, that she received a sizable pay raise that year. She went from earning $121,910 in 2004 as an executive director at the hospital to making $316,962 in 2005 as a vice president, according to tax returns filed by the Obamas for those years. But the suggestion made by the email’s author – and not made by the National Review – that she was being paid more than $300,000 for a "20 hour a week job" is not true.

University of Chicago Medical Center spokesman John Easton said Mrs. Obama didn’t reduce her work schedule from full time to part time until 2007 when it became clear that her husband would run for president. "As she reduced her hours, beginning early in 2007, her salary decreased proportionately," Easton told us in an e-mail. "She switched to half time shortly before her husband formally announced his campaign, then to 20% later that year and to 0% in 2008."

In fact, Mrs. Obama’s income in 2006, a year after her promotion, had decreased to $273,618. And for 2007 (the year she actually started working part-time), her income was $103,633, according to the couple’s tax return for that year. She took an "unpaid leave of absence to work on her husband’s presidential campaign" in 2008, but still received $62,709 from the hospital. However, Easton noted that her final reported salary "consists of accumulated but unused vacation time plus the final payout from a supplemental executive retirement plan."

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.

Here is the issue, this stuff happens and as I said in my post , conservatives dont bitch about salaries in the private sector, but liberals DO! So again $100k for part time work is excessive, according to liberal doctrine. $300k is enemy territory is it not? So you cant win the arguement, because you dont like people making money like Michelle made. I could give a shit what she makes, I'm not the one that backed Kerry and then complains about Romney's wealth.

 

[Big Black Dog]

If I was married to Obama, I'd want to take frequent vacations to get away from him too.

 

[taichiliberal]

How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000?" It’s true that after her departure, the hospital did not fill the position of vice president for community and external affairs.
She did at one time make $300k. Ok so the story was off by dollar figures, but she made $100k for nothing? AND they didnt fill the position? Why not? It's amazing that you find no issue with this. Liberals complain about this stuff all the time. Conservatives dont really care, if it's a private business.

Once more for the mentally challenged:

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.

And since the job described is hardly "nothing", I dare say it's amazing how willfully ignorant neocon parrots like yourself have NOTHING to say about the exhorbitant salaries and golden parachutes of bankers and insurance company CEO's who FAILED THEIR CUSTOMERS (the people of the USA, bunky).

Now STFU, go back and READ CAREFULLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY THE ENTIRE ARTICLE....then grow a pair and deal with the FACT that the OP was WRONG!

mentally challenged? I'm so glad you brought that up. Liberals never parse a salary when talking about those evil rich republicans, they just kind of throw it all in one big pot. Interesting on how you now break down the salary.

and how about that $100k for part time work, just an average part time job, eh?

And in true neocon/teabagger fashion, you stubbornly keep parroting your party line while ignoring the FACTS. Once more for the cheap seats:


Michelle Obama had been promoted in 2005 to vice president for community and external affairs after three years as the executive director for community affairs. It’s true, as the e-mail (and National Review column) says, that she received a sizable pay raise that year. She went from earning $121,910 in 2004 as an executive director at the hospital to making $316,962 in 2005 as a vice president, according to tax returns filed by the Obamas for those years. But the suggestion made by the email’s author – and not made by the National Review – that she was being paid more than $300,000 for a "20 hour a week job" is not true.


She was the executive director at a hospital, you simpleton....NOT some banking/insurance exec collecting 3 times and more that for FAILING to take care of his clientle (the American public).

Try READING CAREFULLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY the FactCheck article I linked.

 

[Listening]

FactCheck.org : Michelle Obama’s Salary

She makes Anne Romney look like a rich stay at home idiot.Like Barack, smart as HELL with a personality to match. Sorry about your luck, dupes. Thousands of Pubcrappe stories for the dupes. Give it up, chumps- change the channel.

Sorry Franco...the FactCheck only confirms she got paid 300 K for a job that was quietly eliminated.

Like the lemming you are....you'll still lick the shoes of the cardboard cut out of Obama you have in the room your mother rents you.

My luck...she's gonna weigh him down cause this is going to get smashed in his face here in about a month.

You're the chump. Enjoy your 200 K or did you turn it over to Uncle Sam already ? Didn't think so.

 

[Listening]

Once more for the mentally challenged:

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.

And since the job described is hardly "nothing", I dare say it's amazing how willfully ignorant neocon parrots like yourself have NOTHING to say about the exhorbitant salaries and golden parachutes of bankers and insurance company CEO's who FAILED THEIR CUSTOMERS (the people of the USA, bunky).

Now STFU, go back and READ CAREFULLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY THE ENTIRE ARTICLE....then grow a pair and deal with the FACT that the OP was WRONG!

300 K..that is all that matters.

The OP didn't say anything more or less dickweed.

Better get used to it cause it's gonna be around until he's gone in about ten months.

 

[francoHFW]

Jeebus dupes- the average CEO now makes over 300X what their workers do...get your heads out of your asses. Incredibly smart and personable Ivy League lawyers making a couple hundred grand working for huge hospitals are hardly the problem.

 

[buckeye45_73]

Once more for the mentally challenged:

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.

And since the job described is hardly "nothing", I dare say it's amazing how willfully ignorant neocon parrots like yourself have NOTHING to say about the exhorbitant salaries and golden parachutes of bankers and insurance company CEO's who FAILED THEIR CUSTOMERS (the people of the USA, bunky).

Now STFU, go back and READ CAREFULLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY THE ENTIRE ARTICLE....then grow a pair and deal with the FACT that the OP was WRONG!

mentally challenged? I'm so glad you brought that up. Liberals never parse a salary when talking about those evil rich republicans, they just kind of throw it all in one big pot. Interesting on how you now break down the salary.

and how about that $100k for part time work, just an average part time job, eh?

And in true neocon/teabagger fashion, you stubbornly keep parroting your party line while ignoring the FACTS. Once more for the cheap seats:


Michelle Obama had been promoted in 2005 to vice president for community and external affairs after three years as the executive director for community affairs. It’s true, as the e-mail (and National Review column) says, that she received a sizable pay raise that year. She went from earning $121,910 in 2004 as an executive director at the hospital to making $316,962 in 2005 as a vice president, according to tax returns filed by the Obamas for those years. But the suggestion made by the email’s author – and not made by the National Review – that she was being paid more than $300,000 for a "20 hour a week job" is not true.


She was the executive director at a hospital, you simpleton....NOT some banking/insurance exec collecting 3 times and more that for FAILING to take care of his clientle (the American public).

Try READING CAREFULLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY the FactCheck article I linked.

Ok so the smug little liberal doesnt get it. What is the appropriate salary? Oh and I'm not a neocon... I love those kinds of labels.

 

[Listening]

That's what smart lawyers from Princeton/Yale with a personality MAKE FERCHRISSAKE. JFC.

Yes, you saw how she was complaining about how much summer camp cost.

In our times of trouble....

Michelle Obama...."let them eat cake"......

She ain't that smart "First time I've been proud of my country....." ROTFLMAO

She's gonna help bring his ass down.

 

[Listening]

Jeebus dupes- the average CEO now makes over 300X what their workers do...get your heads out of your asses. Incredibly smart and personable Ivy League lawtyers making a couple hundred grand working for huge hospitals are hardly the problem.

Sure, those kinds of jobs are just lying around.

Harvard business school....they openly admit that what you get is a good education...but what really makes it are the contacts.

That you clowns won't admit that this was a rig up is so typical. You complain and whine about the crooks on the right....but Michelle is as innocent as they come.

No wonder I have no problem telling you to kiss my ass.

 

[Listening]

Ok so the smug little liberal doesnt get it. What is the appropriate salary? Oh and I'm not a neocon... I love those kinds of labels.

316K.

The rest of the defense is eyewash.

Forget the 20 hour a week business. She got a job for 300K a year.

Of course she was highly qualified. I can tell you that most people at higher levels in the organization I work for don't pull in that kind of money.

 

[taichiliberal]

Once more for the mentally challenged:

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.

And since the job described is hardly "nothing", I dare say it's amazing how willfully ignorant neocon parrots like yourself have NOTHING to say about the exhorbitant salaries and golden parachutes of bankers and insurance company CEO's who FAILED THEIR CUSTOMERS (the people of the USA, bunky).

Now STFU, go back and READ CAREFULLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY THE ENTIRE ARTICLE....then grow a pair and deal with the FACT that the OP was WRONG!

300 K..that is all that matters.

The OP didn't say anything more or less dickweed.

Better get used to it cause it's gonna be around until he's gone in about ten months.

And yet another willfully ignorant and intellectually impotent neocon/teabagger parrot PROUDLY admitting his denial of ALL the FACTS while opting for an excerpt for a misleading talking point for the rest of the brain dead puppets and flunkies of Drudge, Rove, Armey, Limbaugh, WND, Washington Times, Newsbusters, Maulkin, Krauthhammer, etc., etc.

Thanks showing everyone that YOU are truly NOT "listening". Carry on.

 

[Listening]

Once more for the mentally challenged:

Easton said the nearly $317,000 figure is "misleading" anyway because it includes more than just her salary. He said the figure "also includes a performance bonus, a one-time signing bonus (she had other, competing offers at the time), and a one-time mandatory payout from a terminated retirement plan." This is reflected in the fact that her 2006 earnings were less than in 2005.

And since the job described is hardly "nothing", I dare say it's amazing how willfully ignorant neocon parrots like yourself have NOTHING to say about the exhorbitant salaries and golden parachutes of bankers and insurance company CEO's who FAILED THEIR CUSTOMERS (the people of the USA, bunky).

Now STFU, go back and READ CAREFULLY AND COMPREHENSIVELY THE ENTIRE ARTICLE....then grow a pair and deal with the FACT that the OP was WRONG!

300 K..that is all that matters.

The OP didn't say anything more or less dickweed.

Better get used to it cause it's gonna be around until he's gone in about ten months.

And yet another willfully ignorant and intellectually impotent neocon/teabagger parrot PROUDLY admitting his denial of ALL the FACTS while opting for an excerpt for a misleading talking point for the rest of the brain dead puppets and flunkies of Drudge, Rove, Armey, Limbaugh, WND, Washington Times, Newsbusters, Maulkin, Krauthhammer, etc., etc.

Thanks showing everyone that YOU are truly NOT "listening". Carry on.

Run home to mommy....she'll kiss it and make you think it's better.

There are about 316K facts nobody is denying. Next question.

I can see that you have a real hard-on for a lot of conservative commentators. Sorry, the money you spent on anger management turned out to be such a waste.