Michelle Obama’s Bitterness is Something Else:
We’ve all heard her now, I hope. She is not very nice when it comes to talking about most Americans. Most Americans live their lives by working hard; taking care of their families; enjoying their free time with recreation; slowly building their nest egg and helping their children get started. Most of Michelle’s Americans struggle in soup lines to get a crumb dropped off of the table by evil rich people.
Michelle’s Americans are either righteous, caring, misunderstood, downtrodden, well intentioned, suppressed, loving, poor people who would be wealthy if it weren’t for the evil U.S. government’s policies and evil rich guys (code for white capitalist males) or Michelle’s Americans are evil, suppressive, born with a silver spoon in their mouths, get every thing you can before the next guy, selfish, bigoted, Manson owning, BMW driving, don’t worry about your neighbor, fundamentalist racist Christians who only want to amass power while dropping crumbs for the poor beggar, world dominating imperialists, Conservative power hungry evil rich guys.
Americans are mostly good hearted loving people who give more of their time and money to charity than any other people in the world. Americans work hard to raise their children and give them the best opportunity for success. My father had it better than his father, I have it better than my father, my adult children and their children are definitely better off than I am. More people are graduating from college than ever. More minorities are going to college than ever. There are more opportunities for all types of people in this country than at anytime in the history of the world.
Ms. Obama sees a cup moslty empty and yellowing from bacteria:
From her speech May 2nd in NOrth Carolina (entire transcript here),
And see what happens when you live in a nation where the vast majority of Americans are struggling every day to reach an ever-shifting and moving bar, then what happens in that nation is that people do become isolated. They do live in a level of division, because see, when you’re that busy struggling all the time, which most people that you know and I know are, that you don’t have time to get to know your neighbor. You don’t have time to reach out and have conversations, to share stories. In fact, you feel very alone in your struggle, because you feel that somehow, it must be your fault that you’re struggling so hard. Everybody else must be doing okay. I must be doing something wrong, so you hide. You don’t realize that the struggles of that farmer in rural Iowa are the same as the struggles as a city worker in the south side of Chicago, because we don’t talk to each other. And when you live in a nation with a vast majority of Americans are struggling to reach an ever-shifting and moving bar, then naturally, people become cynical. They don’t believe that politics can do anything for them. So they fold their arms in disgust, and they say you know, I can’t be bothered voting, because it has never done anything for me before. So let me stay home, let me not bother. Naturally, we as a nation get cynical.
And when you live in a nation where people are struggling every day to reach an ever-shifting and moving bar, then what happens in that kind of nation is that people are afraid, because when your world’s not right, no matter how hard you work, then you become afraid of everyone and everything, because you don’t know who’s fault it is, why you can’t get a handle on life, why you can’t secure a better future for your kids. And the problem with fear is that it cuts us off. Fear is the worst enemy. It cuts us off from one another and our own families, and our communities, and it has certainly cut us off from the rest of the world. It’s like fear creates this veil of impossibility, and it is hanging over all of our heads, and we spend more time now in this nation talking about what we can’t do, what won’t work, what can’t change. See, and the problem with that kind of thinking is that we passed that on to our children, because see, the thing I know as a mother is our children are watching everything we do and say, every explicit and implicit sign, they are watching us. And our fear is helping us to raise a nation of young doubters, young people who are insular and they’re timid. And they don’t try, because they already heard us tell them why they can’t succeed. See, and I don’t want that for my kids. (read more)
Mark Steyn has this to say on Hugh Hewitt’s show:
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 12:58 AM From my interview with Mark Steyn today:
MS: Chicago doesn’t sound like part of America. It sounds like we need to fly in some U.N. relief agency. They should all pull out of Burma and fly into these derelict parts of Chicago. The fact is, community organizer is a bogus term. She ought to knock it off. Real people…one of the most pathetic aspects of this race is that somehow, a guy like Mitt Romney, who runs successful companies, he’s regarded as Mr. Bloated Plutocrat like the guy in the top hat on the Monopoly board. A guy like that actually makes a contribution to people’s lives, to generating the great wealth in corporate America that pays for everything else. And a community organizer, which most functioning communities in the United States don’t have the need for, is an entirely bogus term. She is becoming, I miss Teresa Heinz Kerry.
HH: (laughing)
MS: God bless here. I used to love going to John Kerry events, and John Kerry would be droning I say to George Bush, bring it on, and Teresa used to stand there next to him looking board out of her skull. God bless her. She was a, you know, she’s a genuine, a very genuine woman. And Michelle Obama by contrast seems to have all the condescension of Teresa Heinz Kerry, plus this weird bitterness and anger. I think she’s a very strange woman.
Obama’s supporters are something else:
Have you seen this one yet?
Im’a vote Obama-way!
Words…would only get in the way:
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcViWXvVjTc]
That makes those Will.I.Am videos with Theo Huxtable look positively subtle.
Excuse me, I’ll be thowin’ it up.
P.S. Great parody of the Will.I.Am videos here.
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{Post by See-Dubya, hat tip to DoublePlusUndead, who’s sort of a rectal thermometer on the health of popular culture.}
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