In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. See, that's why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service.

This from the mouth of Michelle Obama, who, you'll recall, said that the nomination of her husband as the Democrat presidential candidate made her proud of America for the first time. This is the woman who complained that the people at Princeton said she didn't have the grades to get in, and she complained in Princeton. The woman is the poster child for resentment in America.

Er, sure. You bet. No doubt that Michelle was slaving hard in the trenches of public service. In 2002 Michelle Obama was hired by the University of Chicago Hospital as its executive director for community affairs. That's a nebulous job title if I ever heard one. Once in college I was the beneficiary of a make-work job given me by two professors who liked me, and because I didn't qualify for financial aid they thought that $3 an hour, up to $30 a week, for little work would be nice.

I don't know if Michelle's first job at the hospital was a make-work job, but it did pay $120,000.00 a year.

In January of 2005, her husband, Barack Hussein Obama, was sworn in as United States Senator. And, mirabile dictu, Michelle's salary jumped to $316,962! Oh, she became the Vice President for Community and External Affairs. It was a new position, sort of like my $3 an hour job at college. If I'd been married to a Senator, would I have gotten $10 an hour?

A year later, Senator Obama requested a million-dollar earmark for a new hospital pavilion.

When Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated, Michelle resigned her patronage position, which was now paying $316,962 a year, and once she resigned, that job ceased to exist. Public service indeed. Only if she defines herself as the public.

Which she may well do. Laura Bush had one assistant, and even Hillary Clinton had only three. But Michelle Obama, fresh from her $317,000 job in "public service," needs twenty-two of them. Notice some of the jobs on the bottom rung: they don't report to Michelle: they report to Michelle's assistants. Assistants which didn't exist under Laura Bush.

The total cost for this First Lady's massive ego and sense of entitlement is $1,600,700 a year.

I was looking for one thing and didn't find it--the keeper of Michelle's sparkly-toed $540.00 Lanvin sneakers when they've been soiled at a food bank. Where she was pretending to work.

I hereby nominate Michelle Obama as the most intolerable woman in this government. Today. Every day there's something new to make me cast up my accounts.