What is wrong with ‘that’ woman?  Six hundred dollars is a lot of money!  Yet she tells an AA audience that it’s only worth buying a pair of earrings?  Who in the hell are those women who spend $600 on a pair of earrings?  

Does Mrs. Snobby know that she just insulted a bunch of women who can barely feed their children… like the native Americans on reservations who have substandard housing… and yet her husband voted “Absent” on a bill to give them more money?  

Here’s what SnobbyAss says:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics…hu.html?csp=34

As news reports about Jesse Jackson’s crude and rude comment concerning Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and John McCain adviser Phil Gramm’s statement that we’ve become a “nation of whiners” fill the airwaves, news pages and websites the past two days, they overshadow other campaign trail “gaffes.”

As pundit David Gergen said on CNN’s AC360° last night, the Gramm story in particular:

“Covered up a couple of things on (Obama’s) own campaign that he didn’t want to be leading the program tonight, Michelle Obama out today talking about these (tax) rebates don’t amount to much, $600. Well, you just go out there and spend that on a pair of earrings. 

“Well, you know, a lot of people don’t buy $600 earrings. So, this story smothered those kinds of things. And I think this was a real gift to Barack Obama.”

The comment he was referring to was actually something Michelle Obama said on Wednesday in Pontiac, Mich. The local Oakland Press covered the event, and did not report Michelle Obama’s remark about earrings — but did post extensive video clips of her address, during which she talked about her husband’s plan to shift resources from fighting the war in Iraq to focusing more on boosting the domestic economy.

MSNBC’s First Read reported from Pontiac that Michelle Obama said this, and she didn’t exactly say someone would spend the entire check on jewelry:

“You’re getting $600,” she told an audience of mostly African-American women here (about this year’s federal tax rebates, designed to stimulate the economy). “What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month.”

“Barack’s approach is that the short-term quick fix kinda stuff sounds good,” she continued. “And it may even feel good that first month when you get that check. And then you go out and you buy a pair of earrings,” she joked.