As a second-year associate at a major law firm, she was woman enough to make a stand against the abuse of being treated like a. . . second-year associate.

As far as associate work goes, it could have been worse — “Advertising is a little sexier than spending a full year reading depositions in an antitrust law suit or reviewing documents for a big merger,” says [Quincy] White — but it was monotonous and relatively low-level.

Too monotonous for Michelle, who, White says, complained that the work he gave her was unsatisfactory. He says he gave her the Coors beer ads, which he considered one of the more glamorous assignments they had. Even then, he says, “she at one point went over my head and complained [to human resources] that I wasn’t giving her enough interesting stuff, and the person came down to my office and said, ‘Basically she’s complaining that she’s being treated like she’s a second-year associate,’ and we agreed that she was a second-year associate. I had eight or nine other associates, and I couldn’t start treating one of them a lot better.”

Now I’ll concede that Michelle Obama is an intelligent woman, with a good education and a strong skill set. But when you are working in an entry-level position, you get stuck doing entry-level work. You don’t get to pick and choose your own assignments – and to try to do so is a sign of an extreme arrogance. Maybe, though, she decided that her status as an affirmative action baby would get her one more leg up over her melanin-deficient colleagues.

Oh, and one other reason to hate Michelle Obama – she was actively involved in the promotion of the PBS Barney franchise and we all know that there is a special place in Hell reserved for those who were in any way involved in bringing the purple dinosaur into American living rooms.

Any one want to bet that she played the race card, too?

H/T Don Surber

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