Is Obama's Wife a Ghostpayroller?

Vanity Fair reports on Obama's wife:

Although Mrs. Obama had recently been appointed as vice president at the University of Chicago Medical Center, her husband’s announcement in February 2007 that he was entering the presidential race forced her to scale back her professional commitments. In May, she reduced her work schedule to 20 percent in order to meet the needs of her family while participating in the campaign.

“She was intending to take a full leave of absence, but she couldn’t make herself separate from this professional career that’s been so important to her,” says Susan Sher, vice president for legal and governmental affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she is Mrs. Obama’s boss. “Her involvement in her work life has been so serious that it’s not easy to just say, ‘Never mind.’ ”

Mrs. Obama has a long history of speaking out about the ways in which men’s choices—particularly their professional ambitions—often leave their wives to pick up the slack, even when they have their own careers. “What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first,” she told the Chicago Tribune in 2004. “And for women, me is fourth, and that’s not healthy.”

But for the moment, at least, Mrs. Obama has reconciled herself to putting her career on the back burner. “The way I look at it is, We’re running for president of the United States. Me, Barack, Sasha, Malia, my mom, my brother, his sisters—we’re all running,” she says. “I can’t hold down a full-time job as vice president of community and external affairs and be on the road three or four days a week. Barack has never asked me to stop doing my job; as far as he was concerned, ‘You have to do whatever makes you feel comfortable.’ But, for me, it was: How can I not be part of this? How can I go to work every day, when we’re trying to do something I believe in? If I really felt it was more important for me to be vice president of community and external affairs full-time, I would do that. But the bigger goal here is to get a good president—somebody I believe in, like Barack, who’s really going to be focused on the needs of ordinary people. For what I’m trying to do at the hospital, getting him elected is a better way for me to reach that goal. Part of doing this is that I would have felt guilty not doing it. I would have felt I was being selfish. We have this opportunity, and Barack could do amazing things, but I wanted help with the laundry? Now my conscience is clear.”

Gee,we wonder if Mrs. Obama is taking an 80% pay cut since she's not there full time? What exactly does someone who's in "community and external affairs" do? Sounds like a made up job that insiders get to get paid 6 figures.