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America’s Unhappiest Millionaire: Michelle Obama’s gospel of misery
National Review ^ | May 5, 2008 | Yuval Levin

Posted on 05/05/2008 8:28:51 PM PDT by Alouette

By her husband’s logic, Michelle Obama must be a heavily armed xenophobic religious zealot, because boy is she bitter. This C-SPAN video of a speech delivered by Mrs. Obama in North Carolina last Friday is characteristic of her peculiar recent performances on the stump. It is an hour-long talk to supporters who just want something to cheer about, and who get some opportunities at the outset, but then find themselves treated to a profoundly and relentlessly negative vision of American life.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: audacityofnohope; bitter; glasshalfempty; hopelessness; michelleobama; noaudacity; obama; prozac; whygetup
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1 posted on 05/05/2008 8:28:52 PM PDT by Alouette
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To: Alouette

Poor baby, Michelle’s just so oppressed.


2 posted on 05/05/2008 8:33:39 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Alouette

Boy we got lousy choices this year. Who actually wants this woman as a “first lady”?


3 posted on 05/05/2008 8:36:49 PM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: Alouette
When I get to feeling like that , I take one of the computers that has been causing us grief and shoot it up . The Garand is probably my most soothing weapon , but I have been un-bittered , to say sweetened would be going too far , by any one of several large caliber handguns .
4 posted on 05/05/2008 8:38:57 PM PDT by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know)
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To: F15Eagle

Michelle is actually making Hillary look good.


5 posted on 05/05/2008 8:42:05 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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To: Alouette

It’s REALLY hard to listen to a speech by Michelle Obama. I can only take 5 minutes before I feel like screaming!


6 posted on 05/05/2008 8:45:32 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77 (McCain's FR tag: McLlort)
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To: Alouette
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7 posted on 05/05/2008 8:49:14 PM PDT by littlehouse36
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To: Alouette

I want them to go back to Chicago politics and their moonbat friend Jeremiah Wright and not be ushered into the most powerful political office on the face of the Earth.


8 posted on 05/05/2008 9:01:11 PM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: Alouette

What a nasty woman. Can’t B Hussein afford a better Huma?


9 posted on 05/05/2008 9:02:33 PM PDT by Octar
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To: Alouette

Democratic election strategy 101:

Tear down the image of the US, but tell everyone, that if elected, you will fix it all.

Nowhere has this been on greater display than the democrats misery tour 2008.


10 posted on 05/05/2008 9:05:21 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Alouette
There's something mentally wrong with this a-hole woman of privilege. Clearly not First Lady material.
11 posted on 05/05/2008 9:05:42 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Alouette
I saw Mrs Obama, or someone just like her, berating some poor schlub behind the counter of a Continental Airlines baggage office once.

The black skycap standing beside me looked at me and said: “THAT'S why we chase after white women.”

I fell down laughing.

12 posted on 05/05/2008 9:06:53 PM PDT by decal (Sign over DNC headquarters: Please Check Common Sense And Morals At The Door)
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To: Alouette
Average white guy here. Whew am I tired.
I was just out all day moving the bar just
out of reach, ever so slightly moving, inching
it away from Michelle finger tips. All my white
friends are tired as well. Maybe I actually get
some of my own work done tomorrow. (sarcasm on)
13 posted on 05/05/2008 9:09:20 PM PDT by topfile
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To: Alouette
“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, see you don’t have time to get to know your neighbors, 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 somehow it must be your fault that you’re struggling that hard, everybody else must be doing ok, I must be doing something wrong, so you hide…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 whose fault it is, why you can’t get a handle on life, why you can’t secure a better future for your kids.”

Wow, today's much harder than the Great Depression or the era of the black death? I guess those folks could never bear to have friends or get married or anything since the world wasn't right. The whole world must have just curled up and died. Maybe we should all just curl up and die. It's so hopeless. So sad. We just can't do it anymore.

The Audacity of Hopelessness.

14 posted on 05/05/2008 9:10:52 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: Fox_Mulder77

She’s also got that Cynthia McKinney kinda “crazy” look about her - she just looks not-quite-right. Unstable.


15 posted on 05/05/2008 9:11:29 PM PDT by The Worthless Miracle (Where's Michele??)
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To: keepitreal

We had a woman in her 60s at work who was straight out of the same mold. She was morose, beaten down by life and thankful she had never brought kids into this miserable world. Needless to say, she was an ultra-leftist who thought government ownership of all industry was the best possible world. The strange thing is she worked in a venture-capital funded startup, the epitome of capitalist enterprise. More often than not, you find that leftists are all cut from the same cloth.


16 posted on 05/05/2008 9:17:33 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Alouette
OK fellow FReepers...IN and NC had them for two weeks...two weeks!!! Hello! Seven weeks here in PA...I wanna see stats on anti-depressant sales in the Commonwealth after the Dem primary campaign tortured us with this 'depressed speak' for for seven FReaking weeks...

Is there nothing Michelle is happy about? I mean anything? Did she at least enjoy her lunch? Maybe see a butterfly? View an old rerun of 'I Love Lucy?'

17 posted on 05/05/2008 9:26:28 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (I could never 'Keep Sweet' I am a bitter Pennsylvanian)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican
Nowhere has this been on greater display than the democrats misery tour 2008.

That's the truth.

Roll up, roll up for the misery tour.

Roll up, roll up for the misery tour.

Roll up GOT EVERYTHING YOU NEED, roll up for the misery tour.

Roll up SATISFACTION GUARANTEED, roll up for the misery tour.

The Democrat misery tour is hoping to take you away,

Hoping to take you away.

A misery trip.

18 posted on 05/05/2008 9:29:07 PM PDT by A message
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To: Alouette
Folks are struggling like never before,” she says, and in a nation struggling like never before, society cannot stand the strain

I'm sure my ancestors, were they alive today, would feel like slapping some sense into this woman.

MGD tells the story of one relative who walked with his wife from Chicago to Milwaukee to establish a farm in this area. I think of them often when I pass the new and modern school building that sits on this land today, and I am humbled. I'm not sure I would have had the stuff to be a pioneer.

To say that we in this day and age are struggling like never before is to be ignorant of what came before you. Ignorant and ungrateful.

19 posted on 05/05/2008 9:30:13 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom ("My advice: Quit supporting the party that is symbolized by an ass." Ted Nugent)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

“It’s REALLY hard to listen to a speech by Michelle Obama. I can only take 5 minutes before I feel like screaming!”

______________________________________________________________________________

In righteous rage because of the ways the MAN is keeping you down?

Between Michelle and the right-on Rev. I wanna quit my job and hang out on the corner with a 40 and a blunt until I get my reparations check.

Don’t want to let whitey of the hook, don’t you know.


20 posted on 05/05/2008 9:32:37 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: littlehouse36

“...and your little dog, too!”


21 posted on 05/05/2008 9:33:12 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

I don’t know why, but Michelle Obama irks me like no one else on the national scene right now. Maybe it’s because she CHOSE to go to one of the most expensive universities in the country, and then complained about having student loans. WHO THE H*LL DID SHE THINK WAS GOING TO PAY OFF THOSE LOANS???


22 posted on 05/05/2008 9:34:57 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (<----- Typical White Person)
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To: keepitreal

I think she’s been reading Robert D. Putnam’s “Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community.”


23 posted on 05/05/2008 9:36:22 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: F15Eagle

It won’t be once Obama gets through with it.


24 posted on 05/05/2008 9:36:59 PM PDT by utherdoul
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To: Alouette

Is Michelle Obama really Aunt Esther?


25 posted on 05/05/2008 9:38:25 PM PDT by OldEagle
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To: Alouette

If one were to collate the reverend’s views on what his congregation should think of the United States, and, further, his writs against Americans as “selfish, self-centered egotists who are arrogant and ignorant” with Michelle Obama’s own astounding statements that hitherto she had no pride in the United States, and considered America “just downright mean,” and Americans “guided by fear” and (in the words of the New Yorker profiler) who summed up her views as ‘we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents’ the echoes are downright eerie.


26 posted on 05/05/2008 9:47:36 PM PDT by anglian
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To: utherdoul

true


27 posted on 05/05/2008 9:48:41 PM PDT by F15Eagle (1 John 5:4-5, 4:15, John 11:25, 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5, John 3:17-18, John 20:31, 1 John 5:13, John 6:69)
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To: Alouette
Michelle Obama is paid $360,000 per year to be a "diversity coordinator" for a Chicago hospital. With a politically-connected, affirmative-action, welfare job like that, how on earth could this sick p.o.s. be so bitter and hateful of America?


First Lady-in-waiting, Michelle Hussein Obama

God save America.

28 posted on 05/05/2008 9:48:54 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.” - Michelle


29 posted on 05/05/2008 9:49:44 PM PDT by anglian
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To: The Worthless Miracle
"She’s also got that Cynthia McKinney kinda “crazy” look about her"

You know, you may be right, after all...I've never, ever seen them appear together in public. Could it be?
30 posted on 05/05/2008 9:53:29 PM PDT by FrankR (OBAMA is the VAST WRIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY...)
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To: All

Meet Michelle Obama at Villanova. You may want to go ahead to the 15-20 minute mark where she gets on a roll with her Left Wing agenda.
http://2164th.blogspot.com/2008/03/meet-michelle-obama-at-villanova.html


31 posted on 05/05/2008 9:58:18 PM PDT by anglian
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To: RegulatorCountry

I wonder what would be Michelle’s pet
project as first lady. All first ladies
have one. What would Michelle’s be
do you suppose?


32 posted on 05/05/2008 9:58:28 PM PDT by topfile
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To: keepitreal

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, see you don’t have time to get to know your neighbors, 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 somehow it must be your fault that you’re struggling that hard, everybody else must be doing ok, I must be doing something wrong, so you hide…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 whose fault it is, why you can’t get a handle on life, why you can’t secure a better future for your kids.”

Absolute psycho-babble BS- sounds more like an ad for Prozac!!

“why you can’t secure a better future for your kids”—

Having them attend Trinity Church might have something to do with it!!


33 posted on 05/05/2008 10:00:52 PM PDT by midnightson (Mama-the ultimate prognosticator- said there'd be days like this.)
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To: Alouette

Got it. Michelle’s pet
project as first lady....
Stickin’ it to The Man!


34 posted on 05/05/2008 10:01:17 PM PDT by topfile
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To: Octar
"What a nasty woman. Can’t B Hussein afford a better Huma?" Birds of a feather flock together.
35 posted on 05/05/2008 10:03:10 PM PDT by indcons
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To: Alouette

I like Jeremiads, but from Scripture or someone who is a believer in Christ—not from some passive-aggressive whining woman with a raging black inferiority complex (self-imposed, to boot!).

Whatever the Obamas have gotten at that “church”, it is not even remotely related to Biblical Christianity, which says “Forgive those who have trespassed against you” and—GASP!!!—”Slaves, obey your earthly masters...”, among many other pride-shattering things.

There is nothing original or unique about these people, they are like all the other ambitious money-grubbers who prey on others’sinful pride and greed.


36 posted on 05/05/2008 10:03:15 PM PDT by avenir
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

” Did she at least enjoy her lunch?”

Of course not. Corporate America has ruined dining. The food is bad for you and it’s designed to keep people oppressed. How can you want to work when you are obese?

“View an old rerun of ‘I Love Lucy?’”

Just male oppression of the poor female.

Where have you been PAmom? There is no joy left in the world and it’s all Bush’s fault. (I Love Lucy was Eisenhower’s fault, but same difference - an oppressive Republican war monger).


37 posted on 05/05/2008 10:05:29 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: Lancey Howard

$360k?! I had no idea it was THAT much. I knew it was six figures but damn...

Here’s a woman who lives a very privileged life (and has done little or nothing to earn her lofty status). She has a cushy BS job as a “diversh*tty coordinator”, at which she makes almost five times as much as I do. She attended a prestigious university (where she responded with hostility to white people’s attempts to welcome her) and lives in a rich fancy neighborhood. There’s a good chance that she will be the next First Lady of the United States. She is treated with fawning adoration by every mainstream media outlet.

And yet, she’s still bitter, still angry, and still considers herself a victim.


38 posted on 05/05/2008 10:07:23 PM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: midnightson

“why you can’t secure a better future for your kids”—

I have secured the future for my kids - the only one that matters. And in that they will find joy even in the tough times. Too bad Rev. Wright doesn’t preach that better future.


39 posted on 05/05/2008 10:08:03 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: JillValentine

(and has done little or nothing to earn her lofty status).

And there is the problem. When you don’t earn it, you have no pride in yourself and you have no joy in your accomplishments.


40 posted on 05/05/2008 10:09:46 PM PDT by keepitreal
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To: Alouette
But whether you are highly educated multi-millionaires or not, in Michelle Obama’s America, chances are you’re afraid, isolated, and hopeless.

Very funny---thanks for posting this.

41 posted on 05/05/2008 10:10:26 PM PDT by Tea in the Harbor (The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves.)
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To: decal

THAT was funny!
Last month I had subbed in a very rowdy inner city class.About ten black girls clustered around each other,cussing,grinding on each other’s desks and basically acting like loud obnoxious jackasses.
The three young black men in the class were quietly chatting up the Asian hotties in the back of the room,totally oblivious to the “sisters”.
But watch.Ten years from now those same out of control black girls will be whining about”Where are the good black men at?Probably out chasing white and Asian hos”
Like Ice Cube said,my sisters-”Check yourself before you wreck yourself”


42 posted on 05/05/2008 10:15:25 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

You sure you never worked at the Post Office?I have a woman in my unit exactly like the one you described.


43 posted on 05/05/2008 10:17:14 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: topfile
What would Michelle’s be do you suppose?

a snake

44 posted on 05/05/2008 10:21:43 PM PDT by babyfreep
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To: anglian
Why do I have the uncomfortable feeling that the above means being forced to pick oranges or tomatoes at gunpoint?
45 posted on 05/05/2008 10:28:51 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately desiring a conservative government.)
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To: Riverman94610

LOL. I got so fed up with her pissing and moaning that I told her we were two perfect examples of Liberal and Conservative:

Liberal —> world is awful, nobody has a chance, everybody is beaten down, America’s best days are behind it, woe is me, no family support
Conservative —> the future is bright, people have no limits on how high they can soar, world is your oyster, large and vibrant families.


46 posted on 05/05/2008 10:35:08 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Alouette

The sick pathetic ravings of a lieberal marxist. Nothing is ever good enough, happiness i snever achieved. There is only anger fear angst bitterness and hatred in their world view. It is a life without God.


47 posted on 05/05/2008 11:18:31 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: JillValentine
$360k?! I had no idea it was THAT much. I knew it was six figures but damn...

And here's a sweet little tidbit. Her salary went up by over 50% AFTER Barack got a 10 million dollar earmark for the Hospital she worked for........
48 posted on 05/05/2008 11:26:07 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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To: Alouette; F15Eagle
"Michelle is actually making Hillary look good."

Scarey, isn't it? I thought for years Queen Evita was lowest of the low, but Michelle-you're-souls-are-broken Snobama bottoms Queen Evita for sheer mean cussedness. Hubby Snobama makes Queen Evita almost look pro-USA. The snobama's have accomplished something I never thought would happen, showing us there are folks even uglier in heart than Queen Evita Jezebel and King Ahab Billy Jeff.
49 posted on 05/06/2008 9:36:08 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("Typical 'bitter' 'White Male" whose vote the Dems now desperately want so bad - HA!)
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To: Lancey Howard

Shoot, I wish I made $360,000 a year, period.


50 posted on 05/06/2008 9:39:15 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA ("Typical 'bitter' 'White Male" whose vote the Dems now desperately want so bad - HA!)
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