… 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]