Good OPED piece on Michelle Obama. ANALYSIS/OPINION: Michelleâs back, and sheâs madder than ever. She was already pretty angry, seemingly unhappy with just about everything. As her husband wrapped up the Democratic nomination in 2008, she let fly her real feelings: âFor the first time in my adult lifetime, Iâm really proud of my country.â A few months into her job as first lady, her French counterpart asked how she liked the gig: âDonât ask!â she reportedly spat. âItâs hell. I canât stand it!â She even seems to be mad at her silver-tongued husband. When the two were to set off on a luxurious 10-day vacation to Marthaâs Vineyard, she left early - four hours early - and flew up alone. And those private vacations. Sheâs traveled to some of the worldâs most plush resorts, taking 42 days off in the past year - thatâd be eight weeks of vacay time if she held down a normal job. Now, she is ready to spew her bilious disgust with America on the campaign trail. A dignified, transcendent first lady? No chance. Michelle is going to break with a hundred years of tradition and play the role of attack dog, heaping derision on her husbandâs political opponents like no other first lady before her. And itâs already begun. Mad Michelle this week popped down to Davis Island, Fla., to hobnob with the very people her husband despises - the 1 percent. At a massive mansion on the bay, filled with the wealthiest of the wealthy, Americaâs first lady launched into a tirade about âthemâ - the Republicans. âLetâs not forget about what it meant when my husband appointed two brilliant Supreme Court justices, and for the first time in history, our daughters - and our sons - watched three women take their seats on our nationâs highest court. But more importantly, letâs not forget the impact their decisions will have on our lives for decades to come - on our privacy and our security, on whether we can speak freely, worship openly and love whomever we choose. That is whatâs at stake here,â she said to applause. Yes, Republicans hope to regain the White House so they can install Supreme Court justices who will trample Americansâ privacy, ignore the nationâs security, crush free speech and persecute the religious. Oh, and theyâre rich and racist to boot. âWill we be a country where opportunity is limited to just the few at the top? Who are we? Or will we give every child a chance to succeed no matter where theyâre from, or what they look like or how much money their parents have. Who are we?â Thatâs right, rich people (white, of course) certainly donât want black people to succeed. They want to squelch success based on what people look like, how much money they have. âAre we going to let them succeed?â the first lady yelled. âNooo!â the rich white people screamed. Just as her husbandâs re-election strategy is inanely simplistic - blame the Republicans for thwarting his brilliant, economy-saving policies - so too is the first ladyâs. She will go to the opulent homes of rich people across the country to tell them how rich people are to blame for Americaâs woes and guilt them into giving millions for her husbandâs campaign. And the Princeton graduate will tell supporters they simply canât comprehend the significance of whatâs occurring today in America. âIt can be hard to see clearly whatâs at stake - because these issues are so complicated, and quite frankly, folks are busy and theyâre tired. Weâre raising families and working full-time jobs, and many helping out in their own communities on top of all that. So many of us just donât have the time to follow the news and to sort through all the back-and-forth, and to figure out how all of this stuff connects to our daily lives.â Yes, only Michelle and her husband can truly understand, although she often tells those uninformed people that when the president returns from one of his campaign trips, âHe says, âYou wonât believe what folks are going through.â â So maybe she is the only person in America who understands. So, Americaâs first lady will travel the country this election season to tell her fellow Americans just how bad it is out there (between lavish vacations, of course). Unlike President Ronald Reagan, who saw morning in America - that great shining city on a hill - Michelle will tell all who will listen that Republicans want to poison the air and water, stifle free speech, oppress the religious. She will offer not an uplifting vision of what her husbandâs America could be but only a vapid view of what Republicansâ America would be. That is the America she lives in, and by campaignâs end, it will be clear that sheâs no longer âproud of my country.â Maybe she never really was. ⢠Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times. He can be reached at jcurl@washingtontimes.com. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/oct/30/curl-the-very-angry-first-lady/?page=all#pagebreak
Like the entire Left. They are given LOTS AND LOTS.. MORE THAN THEY SHOULD EXPECT... MUCH MORE THAN THEY DESERVE.. and what do they do? Piss-n-moan that "it ain't enough".. Let's go for a CHANGE... Tit-suckers get NOTHING beyond "3-squares and a cot in a shelter".. After all, how much do they "deserve" which somebody else pays for??