Posted on 02/19/2008 6:54:45 PM PST by SE Mom
Re: Michelle Obama's astounding admission that she hitherto had no reason to feel pride in the U.S., and Obama's supposed Biden-like lifting of a campaign refrain from someone else.
The problem is deeper than occasional slips. For most of the last 25 years the Obamas' contacts have been largely confined to universities (Occidental, Columbia, Princeton, Harvard, Chicago) as both students and employees, or to government-sponsored social agencies, or to the incestuous world of Chicago minority politics. These landscapes have proven liberal, sympathetic, and non-confrontational. I doubt very seriously in those environments that the Obamas have had any of their sometimes bewildering statements seriously cross-examined or questioned.
Michelle Obama, true, recites a litany of slights and grievances, but more likely she encountered highly educated white liberal audiences that were not about to cross her or challenge her assertions-a world away from steelworkers in Ohio, the Nascar crowd, the Mexican Americans in LA, the hungry wolves of the D.C. press corps for whom controversy trumps even shared liberal ideology — or Clinton, Inc. for whom power, status, and adulation outweigh everything, including liberal head-nodding, white guilt, and identity politics.
The result is that finally out on the campaign trail both are beginning to enter an arena where most of America does not faint at an Obama rally, but resents deeply a candidate's spouse suggesting that she previously had no pride in her own country, and would think that generous college admission practices, scholarships, and loans were cause more for gratitude rather than resentment.
Some old cynical campaign veteran, cigar in mouth-a Tip O'Neill-type, with the more scars the better-should sit the two kids down, explain the no-holds-barred rules of the arena outside the university and liberal government agency, remind them that African Americans and elite white liberals probably make up about at most a fourth of the electorate, and emphasize to them that by the public's own standard of living, the Obamas have been very privileged and done quite well-and that Michelle and Barack should start to say something uplifting other than the current mantra that the U.S. is a depressing and unfair place and has only one chance of 'hope" and "change" and "redemption" by allowing Barack and Michelle to lead us out of our collective ignorance.
02/19 08:59 PM
bttt
I’m telling you Dog- listening to this man gives me a fear like none I’ve ever felt listening to an American politician speak..
I’m hoping her big mouth will have a Teresa Heinz-like effect on his campaign.
Not sure what your point is?
His supporters are idiots. Hugh Hewitt had several on the radio. They are morons. He was being rather pleasant and asked they why they liked Obama. Here were a couple gems I heard:
“Global warming will get better because he’ll promote recycling.” Even if you believe the CO2 nonesense, the two don’t correlate.
“Obama will help pay his school loan.” Give me handout.
I know..I hear it also... he has “IT”.
Yes- I’ve said this before- Obama is frightening for what he’s showing US about OURSELVES..
She may not be “dumb as rocks.” She may just be a typical liberal. My stepdaughter’s boy friend is a son of a Code Pinker who did not fall very far from the tree. He professes to be a patriot because he loves his country. I asked him once if he was proud of his country. He couldn’t answer the question in more than a very qualified way.
Yes. Exactly.
And just what does that mean?
Spell it out
Michelle Obama has a cushy job the salary of which skyrocketed after her husband became a senator. They truly are living high on the hog and really do not have any reason to be complaining about the brokenness of the American soul.
And by the length of his yacking I think he is the NEW FIDEL CASTRO.
Fidel Castro CHANGEd Cuba.
Some floks would rather stop McCain? They should worry about this fella.
No one had fainted by the time we finally switched off his long-winded speech. I’m no fan of McCain, but he said more in his short speech than did Obama.
In Houston they would say
“The man’s all hat, no cattle” (poser)
AZ “He wears cowboy boots” (Coke-cola cowboy)
AK “Obama who? Is he that that there A-rab guy?”
NV “12 to 1 on Hillary - by six”
have fun, add your own State.....
“I WISH some one would ask him at one of his speeches how he expects to pay for all this!”
Why, white Christian males and the evil, greedy corporate entities they work for, of course.
The Democrat mob wants a Wise King with total power so that he can implement the fruits of His Wisdom quickly and usher in Utopia and blue skies for all the survivors.
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