Thread: I Kinda Feel Sorry for Michelle Obama

I Feel Sorry for Michelle Obama
Feb 18, 2008 in The 2008 Horse Race


This sentence, from Michelle Obama, strikes me as a sad, sorry thing to say.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...in_the_na.html

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country…

What made her proud is her husband’s campaign. That’s the first thing she’s seen that makes her proud of her country.

I’m sure that she’s about my age, which means that she has seen the world change radically and greatly for the better. She’s seen the end of the Soviet Union and freedom extended to millions of Russians and and Europeans. She’s watched her fellow Americans respond to dozens of natural disasters around the world with generosity unmatched by any country at any time. She’s seen America led by the first black two Secretaries of State, back to back and the first two female Secretaries of State, both in about a decade. She’s seen America stand resolute against most of Europe and stop the genocide in the former Yugoslavia. She’s watched us free tens of millions of Muslims from two of he most oppressive regimes in history. And that’s just a list of things that have happened in my lifetime right off the top of my head.

How about being proud of the way the heroes of Flight 93 fought back against the islamofascists on 9/11. Doesn’t that make you even a little proud, Michelle? You want to talk about hope? If you can’t see hope in what those people did on that airplane, then you are one sad sorry individual.

If she has never known pride in her nation before today, she’s either supremely ignorant of history or just selfish and cynical. In neither case should she be the First Lady.

I honestly feel sorry for her because she’s apparently lived in shame of her fellow Americans for her whole adult life. *That* is a sorry way to live.

UPDATE: Patterico’s site notes the quote in full. http://patterico.com/2008/02/18/mich...ud-of-america/ It’s not better than it is in isolation. It just makes her look even more short-sighted.

“What we have learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback and let me tell you something, For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. I have seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic common issues. It has made me proud.”

So this is the first time that Ms. Obama has noticed people hungry for change? She must not have been paying attention to the last twenty years of Presidential campaigns. I can recall two where “change” was a major issue for the victor.

You’re proud to see people unified around some basic common issues and those issues are hope and change? It’s not good enough to be unified behind fighting islamofascists or securing our borders; nope, it’s hope and change that make her proud. To use a phrase from my high school days, GAG ME WITH A SPOON!

You know what, Michelle, I think we are the same age. You may have your fancy degrees from ivy league schools, but I’ve got something you don’t, and that’s common sense and realism. Come down from your ivory tower and get real, would you.

I am really proud that Michelle Obama is really proud that Barack Obama is really proud of being proud.

Say it loud!

This sentence, from Michelle Obama, strikes me as a sad, sorry thing to say.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/...in_the_na.html

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country…

Video of Obama's remarks in some context can be found here. http://www.breitbart.tv/html/49244.html

Why am I not surprised. I've seen and heard many comments from her that have made me say "HUMMMMMMMMMM."

Originally Posted by janelle

The comments posted after the article from people are interesting.

Yep I read some of those too VERY interesting and have to say I agree with most all of them

Ugh! Talk about a divider not a uniter.

Michelle Obama wants you to vote for Barack Obama because she thinks what America needs is a healer-in-chief. Via transcription from Ed Morrissey: http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/...ves/017003.php

We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another — that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these. That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

Ed’s response:

Government doesn’t exist to save souls; it exists to ensure domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense. If I feel my soul needs saving, the very last place I’d look (in the US) for a savior would be Washington DC or Capitol Hill. I’ll trust God and Jesus Christ with my soul, and I’m not going to mistake Barack Obama for either one.

Amen to that.

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When Republicans talk about broken souls in the context of civil society, the nutroots start screaming about the obliteration of the church-state line.

When the Obama campaign uses the same rhetoric to get him elected to the White House, everyone swoons.

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Speaking of swooning, Dori Monson http://mynorthwest.com/?nid=76&sid=27720 and James Taranto http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110011130 have been tracking Obama supporter fainting spells.

A message for Michelle Obama:

Thank you Mrs. Obama for educating us on the status of our souls and who can fix it. I suggest that your husband start with his own political party as their souls seem to be the most in danger.

We have seen Democratic members of the House of Representatives block votes or fail to bring to a vote measures that will continue to protect our country. Please fix their souls.

We have seen liberal elements (some who support your husband) in towns and cities across the country come into conflict with the U.S. military–the very military where your husband wants to be C-in-C. Please fix these souls so they can tolerate and appreciate the military that provides for the common defense of this country.

To summarize–please clean your own house
before you tell us what is dirty in ours.

More words of wisdom from Rush. He mentioned the other day that Obama’s appeal wasn’t political, it was messianic - and the Michele Obama quote seems to indicate that this is intentional, ergo cynical. For me, the picture of him on stage with the other candidates during the Pledge of Allegiance standing with his mouth shut and his hands at his sides while the others recited the pledge was more than enough to discount him as a possible president.

He sure talks like a politician. He talks plenty, but says nothing. He’s all about “change” but change from what to what? A President deals mostly with international issues and national security…and not, as some people think, with domestic issues, all the time. So far, I don’t know what he really stands for, on the international scene besides yanking all the troops home right away. I have a strong feeling we’re dealing with another Carter “wannabee”. The international community will run roughshod over him. He’s a “people pleaser” and you can’t be that, dealing with other countries.

Barack Obama–the guy who effectively mocked the Clintons for not saying what they mean–is now trying to spin his wife’s comments by explaining that she, uh, didn’t really mean what she said. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080220/D8UTP1H80.html

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama sought Tuesday to clarify his wife’s statement that she is proud of the U.S. “for the first time in my adult life.” He said her newfound pride is about the political system and was not meant to disparage her country…”Statements like this are made and people try to take it out of context and make a great big deal out of it, and that isn’t at all what she meant,” Obama said. “What she meant was, this is the first time that she’s been proud of the politics of America,” he said. “Because she’s pretty cynical about the political process, and with good reason, and she’s not alone. But she has seen large numbers of people get involved in the process, and she’s encouraged.”

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Oops! She Did It Again!... Michelle Obama's "Proud of My Country" Twofer
(Video clip on site )
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/20...le-obamas.html

"What we've learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback, and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."



Michelle Obama
Pride in America Speeches
February 2008
Oops! She Did It Again!...
It was no accident.
Michelle Obama thought through her remarks on how she felt about her country.

She even had her speech written down.

And... She gave the same speech twice

NOTE: In the first speech she said, "For the first time I am really proud of my country." And, in the second speech she said, "For the first time I am proud of my country."

It's lovely that this Harvard graduate finally feels a bit of gratitude to the country today where she enjoys such a privileged life. It's too bad that it took so long for her to feel any pride. And, it's too bad that she has overlooked so much goodness in America.

Hopefully, she treats her family, friends and her husband better than her country.

So what country is Michelle Obama proud of?

Michelle Obama’s America—and mine
Michelle Malkin

Like Michelle Obama, I am a “woman of color.” Like Michelle Obama, I am a working mother of two young children. Like Michelle Obama, I am a member of the 13th Generation of Americans born since the founding of our great nation.

Unlike Michelle Obama, I can’t keep track of the number of times I’ve been proud—really proud—of my country since I was born and privileged to live in it.

At a speech in Milwaukee this week on behalf of her husband’s Democrat presidential campaign, Mrs. Obama remarked that “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.”

Mrs. Obama’s statement was met with warm applause from other Barack supporters who have apparently also been devoid of pride in their country for their adult lifetimes. Or maybe it was just a Pavlovian response to the word “change.” What a sad, empty, narcissistic, ungrateful, unthinking lot.

I’m just seven years younger than Mrs. Obama. We’ve grown up and lived in the same era. And yet, her self-absorbed attitude is completely foreign to me. What planet is she living on? Since when was now the only time the American people have ever been “hungry for change?” Michelle, ma belle, Barack is not the center of the universe. Newsflash: The Obamas did not invent “change” any more than Hillary invented “leadership” or John McCain invented “straight talk.”

We were both adults when the Berlin Wall fell, Michelle.

That was earth-shattering change.

We’ve lived through two decades’ worth of peaceful, if contentious election cycles under the rule of law that have brought about “change” and upheaval both good and bad.

We were adults through several launches of the Space Shuttle, in case you were snoozing. [Ed. note: Speaking of which, welcome back, Atlantis!] And as adults, we’ve witnessed and benefited from dizzyingly rapid advances in technology, communications, science, and medicine pioneered by American entrepreneurs who yearned and succeeded to change the world. You want “change?” Go ask the patients whose lives have been improved and extended by American pharmaceutical companies who have flourished under the best economic system in the world.

If the fall of communism, American ingenuity, and a robust constitutional republic don’t do it for you, hon, then how about American heroism and sacrifice?

How about every Memorial Day? Every Veteran’s Day? Every Independence Day? Every Medal of Honor ceremony? Has she never attended a welcome home ceremony for the troops?

For me, there’s the thrill of the Blue Angels roaring over cloudless skies. And the somber awe felt amid the hallowed waters that surround the sunken U.S.S. Arizona at the Pearl Harbor memorial.

Every naturalization ceremony I’ve attended, where hundreds of new Americans have raised their hands to swear an oath of allegiance to this land of liberty, has been a moment of pride for me. So have the awesome displays of American compassion at home and around the world. When millions of Americans rallied to help the victims of the 2005 tsunami in southern Asia—including members of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group that sped from Hong Kong to assist survivors—my heart filled with pride. It did again when the citizens of Houston opened their arms to Hurricane Katrina victims and folks across the country rushed to their churches, Salvation Army, and Red Cross offices to volunteer.

How about American resilience? Does that not make you proud? Only a heart of stone could be unmoved by the strength, valor and determination displayed in New York and Washington and Shanksville, Pa., on September 11, 2001.

I believe it was Michael Kinsley who quipped that a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. In this case, it’s what happens when an elite Democrat politician’s wife says what a significant portion of the party’s base really believes to be the truth: That America is more a source of shame than pride.

Michelle Obama has achieved enormous professional success, political influence, and personal acclaim in America. Ivy League-educated, she’s been lauded by Essence magazine as one of the 25 World’s Most Inspiring Women; by Vanity Fair as one of the “10 World’s Best Dressed People; and named one of “The Harvard 100″ top influencers. She has had an amazingly blessed life. But you wouldn’t know it from her campaign rhetoric and her griping over her and her husband’s student loans.

For years, we’ve heard liberals get offended at any challenge to their patriotism. And so they are again aggrieved and rising to explain away Mrs. Obama’s remarks.

Like Lady MacBeth*, Lady Michelle and her defenders protest too much.

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Update: Yes, my English teachers are going to kill me.
The Shakespeare reference is to Hamlet, not MacBeth!

Letter from an Obama supporter

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/20...ama-supporter/

Be warned ... I can't post it here directly because of the language used by the OP

[i]what a nice person/not. I don’t think anything can make that hate-filled individual better. Would venture a guess she never got her mouth washed out with soap as a young person.

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Wow… just wow.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised at this sort of garbage, as we see it all the time from all corners. It just still amazes me that people actually send things like that.

While I may not like someone, disagree with them, whatever, I don’t think I would ever be able to even type that out, let alone send it.

Yet more evidence to support my statement: The fact that the vote of everyone in our country counts as much as that of everyone else is both our greatest strength, and our greatest weakness.

We had just better hope that there will not be a big number of cementhead pigs like Brandy Priestess voting this November.

I’m sure that Mr. Obama is proud to count her as one of his supporters.
Mrs. Obama, as well; for the first time in her life, no less.

/sarcasm off/

More Hope and Change ?


Jammie Wearing Fool found this latest Michelle Obama nugget at The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...?currentPage=3

Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-four!”

Not our America, Michelle.

Our America doesn't live in 1.6 million $ homes, and go to cocktail parties in fancy Northside penthouses. Our America isn't mean, cynical, guided by fear, or slothful.

Do you know any actual Americans?

Our America donates money to St. Judes hospital. Our America gives time to their church fundraiser after working hard all week long. Our America doesn't care about skin color, or ethnic background, or religion, when people are in trouble. We simply write checks, send food and water and clothes, and volunteer our homes as shelter.

Our America supports our heros who fight overseas. Our America doesn't believe that wearing a flag pin on our lapel is a cheap, maudlin trick. We wear it near our hearts to remember our friends and family members who are in uniform today, and those who fought and died in the past; our fathers, brothers, uncles, and best friends. In our America, we aren't ashamed of the symbols of patriotism.

Our America believes that no one owes us anything, and is optimistic about the future we are building for our families. Our America is creative, entrepreneurial, gets in early and stays late.

It Has Always Been The Soldier.

It is the soldier,
not the President
who gives us democracy.

It is the soldier,
not the Congress
who takes care of us.

It is the soldier,
not the Reporter
who has given us Freedom of Press.

It is the soldier,
not the Poet
who has given us Freedom of Speech.

It is the soldier,
not the campus Organizer
who has given us the
Freedom to Demonstrate.

It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag;
who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
that allows the protester
to burn the flag.

(Father Dennis O'Brien, US Marine Corp. Chaplain)

God Bless Soldiers everywhere for putting THEIR lives on the line to protect us ALL from terrorsm!

We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up,

The Audacity of Barack (Michelle) Obama 2 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us.../03exelon.html


the Obama's $1.65 million residence.. http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/

scroll down to "show and tell" vid for comparison.. http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com/2008/...k-did-get.html

OT.. more Obama revelations.. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.p...w&pageId=57341


and just for fun.. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.p...w&pageId=57341



Where's the hope from this potential first lady?