I'm with Clive Crook:
It's starting to annoy me that Barack keeps telling us how he turned down Wall Street for a career in "public service". By this he means politics. Just how great a sacrifice is that? The kind of ambition that gets you into the Senate and maybe the White House is not exactly renouncing the world and all its temptations, is it? And now here we have Michelle doing the same thing. She gave up lawyering, she says, and chose "public service"--the kind that leads in due course to a 300k-plus salary. I've no problem with it. I just don't want to keep being asked to admire the sacrifice.
(H/T: Andrew Sullivan).
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Seems like conservatives such as Mr. Dreher are frustrated because you have a couple of African-Americans who came from the bottom and worked their way to the top. It's a lot easier to bash the lazy welfare queens, isn't it? Just what would make you conservatives happy anyway?
Sacrifice my eye...sacrifice, is my husband re-enlisting at age 39 in the Army National Guard. Sacrifice is what we as a family are experiencing, while he is away for a year of training via the ANG to go into a better, more stable career. Our sacrifice pales in comparison to those families whose loved ones are putting their lives on the line on foriegn soil. Sacrifice IS NOT what the Obamas are experiencing, or others of their ilk. Spare me the treacle Michelle...because I could care less about your "sacrifice."
I'm going to get my MA in Library/Info sciences...no sense wasting my time on a law degree...
I'm looking to complete my law degree (and, I hope, pass the bar) a couple months after my 60th birthday. I was turned off to the law when I was younger, but I really want to spend my golden years, as long as I can, practicing law as I could never have afforded when I was younger. If I were 40 years younger, I might go for a degree in library science. No offense meant to any lawyers, but I needed a certain degree of age-related mental decline to fit the profession, and a whole lot of debt retirement.
No offense taken...and for the record, I'm 37. For me, its all about books.
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