… the Wall Street Journal Editoral Board echos the sentiments you have been blogging about for weeks. This just in from Dorothy Rabinowitz:
Michelle Obama has left little doubt about her views on American society, and its people… the wife of the candidate told crowds that she was, for the first time in her life, “proud” of her country… It was obvious, nontheless, that this was no blip, no failure to express her real thought. She said exactly what she’d wanted to say… The comment reflected her deeply held, grim view of American society, one she was accustomed to sharing with others who thought likewise.
She recently waxed irate over the American attention to security interests, arguing that we should be “changing the conversation” and building diplomatic relations “instead of protecting ourselves against terrorists“.
A New Yorker profile published last week quotes numerous stump speech pronouncements, among them Mrs. Obama’s assertion that most Americans’ lives have gotten worse since she was a girl. ”So if you want to pretend like there was some point in the last couple decades when your life was easy, I want to meet you.“
In short, not only is existence in America a deserate proposition for most citizens –anyone claiming to have led a satisfactory one not sunk in the hell that is American life is, quite simply, lying. America is, she has elsewhere informed audiences, a nation whose “souls are broken“.
Whatever America’s faults, we are certainly not a nation of “broken souls”, a nation where every day is some impassable hurdle, a nation needing the generous hand of some benevolent Democrat dictator. It is almost beyond explanation how someone who has done so well in this country can still have such a pessimistic attitude toward it’s people and government.
And what are we supposed to make of her “I want to meet you” quote? Does she really WANT to meet someone who has had easy times in their lives? She might want to spit in their face to spite them; no other reason seems that plausible. But this really begs the question: why is a hard life so unbearable for her? Playrights have been exploring the tragedy of the human condition for Centuries… wouldn’t an educated woman such as Ms. Obama would have been sensible enough to grasp this fundamental truth instead of ‘hoping’ that her husband can change the human condition?
Is a Government pouring money on our problems (which is all it can do for people)… going to make us Happier? Is our life now really comparable to the lives our grandparents experienced during World War II? Is it really of such a nature to complain about?
Well, Michelle, Feel free to come and meet me anytime. If you Vant… I am here*. I have had a few easy times over the past couple decades and would be more then happy to tell you what a great country I live in.
*[wait for it... it's worth it]
IN other words, for Michelle and hubby, America is at fault for the terrorism. If we get rid of Israel and please the Muslim world on that score, all will be well!
Ironically, she and her husband are VERY VERY well off with their Harvard educations and their wealth –guaranteed for life because of his senate pension that would start for him if he simply lost and was no longer a senator, right? Were their parents as rich? I dare say not. He’s the son of a single mom and she of middle class? business people. Today, They are an example of the American dream and upward mobility of American offspring. Ferraro said to give affirmative action some credit.
Granted, the decline of the auto industry is hurting all of us –and the loss of so much business to China. Whose fault is that, anyway? I don’t think we can blame one party. Open markets are a way of bringing up the disenfranchised and economically oppressed elsewhere in the world –although, with the rich tyrants of the oil rich middle east and the chinese gov’ts getting all the money for their military expansion at the expense of prison labor, international trade may be to our detriment in more ways than one –and not necessarily taking freedom and economic improvement to the oppressed peoples of the world as we would hope. Instead, we are just seeing the decline of our dollar and the loss of jobs –and the high price of gasoline.
I say, blame the lawyers who sue companies and the gov’t who taxes and regulates and fines companies –why would anyone invest their business money here in America if they can get a cheaper work force and less regulation abroad???
Listen to Obama say we are going to get after corporations and close loopholes, etc. –Swell –beat up on your businesses and see who sticks around for the beating! Democrats just don’t get it.
Not that I like to hear about CEO salaries being so out of sight –via contracts that pay people well after they fail to save a struggling business! stealing the employees pension plans in some cases.
wow! excellent contribution, Barb. By the way, do you know what a tax “loophole” is? (I’m sure you do) “Tax Loopholes” are merely old tax breaks that some congressman thought was necessary to protect segments of our economy. Obviously, Barack would rather suffocate our economy then let it grow.