Posted on 08/22/2008 1:47:15 PM PDT by econjack
2 MICHELLES, 2 AMERICAS & SHAME vs. PRIDE By Michelle Malkin, Columnist
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 recent speech in Milwaukee on behalf of her husband's Democratic presidential campaign, Mrs Obama remarked, "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 also apparently been devoid of pride in their country during 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, which 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. And as adults, we've witnessed and benefited from dizzyingly rapid advances in technology, communications, science, and medicine pioneered by American entrepreneurs who yearned to change the world and succeeded.. You want "change"? Go ask the patients whose lives have been improved and extended by American pharmaceutical companies that have flourished under the best economic system in the world.
If American ingenuity, a robust constitutional republic, and the fall of communism don't do it for you, hon, then how about American heroism and sacrifice? How about every Memorial Day? Every Veterans 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 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 victims of the 2004 tsunami in Southeast 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 and offices of the Salvation Army and Red Cross to volunteer.
How about American resilience? Does that not make you proud, Michelle? Only a heart of stone could be unmoved by the strength, valor, and determination displayed in New York , Washington , D.C., 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 Democratic politician's wife says what a significant portion of the party's base really believes to be the truth: 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 ten World's Best-Dressed Women; and named one of "The Harvard 100" most influential alumni. She has had an amazingly blessed life. But, you wouldn't know it from her campaign rhetoric and her griping about 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.
Lady Michelle and her defenders protest too much!
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-sent-obama.html
Who Sent Obama?
http://billayers.wordpress.com/2006/11/
Bill Ayers speech before Hugo Chavez, 2006
Horseface vs. Hottie
That’s gonna leave a mark. Malkin had better have a good disguise if she’s gonna be at the DNCC in Denver.
Michelle Obamas' elitist attitude and barely-concealed sneer at her country, the greatest in the world, is very damaging to her husband's attempt to smile his way into the Oval Office. No wonder Michelle has practically disappeared from the campaign trail. Fortunately, Michelle Malkin reminds us of who these leftist Democrats - sneering at America - really are. Let's hope the voters get it, too.
Michelle Malkin says here what many of us have thought and said privately ever since Mrs. Obama made her stupid comment that (unintentionally) showed her disdain toward the country that has enabled her to obtain a fine education and a lucrative job and has made it possible for her husband, with little qualification, to be the Democrat party’s putative nominee for president. “
I haven’t been “private” about my feelings for this “wife of Nobama”.
I think she is qualified to be a gang member POS. Every time I see her on the TV, I hit mute or change the channel.
She agravates me more than anyone has for years.
Ungrateful is the word that I think of most when she comes to mind.
The truth is, if he was not a black with a gift of gab, he'd be laughed out of politics.
Unfortunately, Michelle Malkin said in an interview in Townhall Magazine she would rather Obama win than McCain. There’s little point in writing an attack on Mrs Obama if you’re voting for her husband.
Is there a direct link to this article?
I’d like to read that. Can you provide a link?
2. Q: So you are not going to vote for him (MCain)?
A. No.
4. Q. What is the hope then? That Obama wins and we can reclaim the Party with solidly conservative candidates in the future? Do we need a purging?
A. Yeah, I think so. Many wise Republicans who remember history have reminded us that it took 1976 to get to 1980.
I do not agree with Michelle Malkin on this. And I am puzzled as to why she bothers to point out the flaws in the Obamas if she apparently wants Obama to win. Maybe she has changed her mind?
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