Take Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical Center hired

her in 2002 to run “programs for community relations, neighborhood

outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority

contracting.”

In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000 –

nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator.

Oh did we mention that her husband had just become a US Senator? He

sure had. Requested a $1 Million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in

fact.

Way to network Michelle!

But now that Mrs Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position

will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital

enough to be worth $317,000?

We can think of only one explanation: Senator Roland Burris’s wife

wasn’t interested