One of the most annoying things about Obamaphiles is their insistence that their guy is so superior because he “could have made millions in the private sector but chose to commit himself to public service.” This actually meant grant-writing, poltics and empty speechifying. My take on this is that the both Mr. and Mrs. O are just plain lazy. I’m a hack lawyer scrabbling for clients and, believe me, establishing a law practice is bloody hard work even for the Harvard-educated elite. My take on the Obamas “committment to public service” is that neither one of them wanted to put the 90 hours a week into actually representing real human beings in real courts of law. But then again real human beings seem to take up very little room in the Obama universe.
