On the jacket, the publisher invites us to consider Michelle Malkin’s efforts to lay bare the Obama’s administration’s seamy underside that the liberal media would rather keep hidden.

Perhaps millions of us do not want to know too much.This is not an easy book to read, but if it awakens   every one up   to what is going on in our names and with our taxes, we may discover a new nation built on justice and mercy. 

In 1996, Michelle Obama joined the University of Chicago as associate dean of student services. She later worked for the University of Chicago Medical Center, ascending to vice-chair in 2002 and to Chair in 2006, under the guidance of her mentor, Valerie Jarret, a protégé of Mayor Daly, and right- hand advisor to both Obamas, described, by Peter Steinfels, author of this piece for the New York Times. May 22, 2001.

Malkin goes on to warn us: “Behind the glamorous exterior and soft-focus lens is a hardened influence-peddler on par with Obama’s dropouts.

Malkin continues that beneath the cultured pearls, sleeveless designer dresses, and false eyelashes, applied by her full time make-up artist, Michelle Robinson Obama is a hardball Chicago politician.

Rather than remaining “on the periphery,” however, Michelle climbed the crooked Chicago political ladder. She hopped from Princeton to Harvard to prestigious law firm, cushy non-profit gig, and an exclusive Hyde Pak manse, before landing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Malkin informs us that, unfortunately, for Chicago’s poor, Michelle Obamba did not leave her lucrative post until she had helped to engineer a plan to dump low-income patients from the medical center.

The Boston Globe’s Benjamin Applebaum blew the whistle on the rodent-infested, sewage clogged Chicago slums run by one of the Obama’s best friends, Valerie Jarrett, who refused to answer any questions.

“They are rapidly displacing poor people, and those companies are profiting from their displacement,” said Matt Ginsberg-Jackle of Together Organizing for Power, a community group that seeks to help tenants stay in the same neighborhoods.

In 2005, Mrs. Obama was promoted to vice-president for community and external affairs and head of the business diversity program, with a salary soaring from $122,000 in 2004 to $317,000 in 2005.

In February of 2009, outrage over the lack of treatment exploded after a young boy, covered by Medicare, was turned away from the University of Chicago Medical Center. Dontae Adam’s mother, Angela, had sought treatment for him after a pit bull had bitten off his upper lip. Mrs. Obama’s hospital had given him a tetanus shot, antibiotics, and Tylenol, and shoved him out the door. The mother and son took another hour-long bus ride for surgery.

The author also tells us that Mrs. Obama’s hospital is the only hospital in the country that decreased its contribution to caring for uninsured patients from 2007 to 2008.

This has not escaped the notice of Senator Grassley of Iowa, who pressed Michelle Obama’s employer for more information about its glaring patronage appointments.

The next time President Obama stands at the podium and raises his voice to castigate those who take advantage of the poor, let us remind him of the boy whose mother took those bus rides, seeking help for a torn lip. That’s not the way he would like his precious girls to be treated. Nor would we. Nor Monsignor John Egan. His life tells us so.

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