Michelle Obama: America is ‘Just Downright Mean’

Newsbusters ^ | 3/5/2008 | Noel Sheppard

[littlehouse36]

Michelle Obama: America is ‘Just Downright Mean’

By Noel Sheppard | March 5, 2008 - 10:29 ET

As NewsBusters previously reported, the wife of Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't very proud of her country.

Two weeks after making her disdain for the nation clear during a campaign speech for her husband in Wisconsin, Michelle further debased America by saying that we're a country that is "just downright mean."

Given how media made excuses for her comments in Wisconsin, it will be quite interesting to see just how much of her interview in the March 10th edition of The New Yorker will be reported in the next 24 hours (emphasis added throughout, h/t JWF):

    Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we're a divided country, we're a country that is "just downright mean," we are "guided by fear," we're a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. "We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day," she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. "Folks are just jammed up, and it's gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I'm young. Forty-four!"

Oh, woe is her! Just listen to how deluded this person is:

"You're looking at a young couple that's just a few years out of debt," Obama said. "See, because, we went to those good schools, and we didn't have trust funds. I'm still waiting for Barack's trust fund. Especially after I heard that Dick Cheney was s'posed to be a relative or something. Give us something here!"

Give us something here?

Can you believe this nonsense? You want to know how much this couple has been given lately?

The Obamas' financial standing has risen sharply in the past three years, largely as a result of the money Barack earned from writing "The Audacity of Hope." In 2005, their income was $1.67 million, which was more than they had earned in the previous seven years combined.

[...]

Just after Barack was elected to the United States Senate, Michelle received a large pay increase-from $121,910 in 2004 to $316,962 in 2005.

Still want someone to give you something, Michelle?

But that's just the beginning of an hypocrisy an honest media would be all over if her husband was a Republican:

"The life that I'm talking about that most people are living has gotten progressively worse since I was a little girl. . . . So if you want to pretend like there was some point over the last couple of decades when your lives were easy, I want to meet you!"

Really, Michelle? Life has gotten worse for you since you were a little girl? Not according to The New Yorker:

Money was scarce but sufficient. Fraser [her father] took pride in providing for his family. "If the TV broke and we didn't have any money to have it fixed, we could go out and buy another one on a charge card, as long as we paid the bills on time," Marian [her mother] told me. Saturday nights were spent at home playing Chinese checkers, Monopoly, or a game called Hands Down (like spoons, with bluffing). It was a simple time. "I probably had two sleepovers my entire life," Craig [her brother] said. "We were home folks." Many years, the family drove to Dukes Happy Holiday Resort, in Michigan, for a week's vacation.

Compare this to her life today:

The Obamas employ a full-time housekeeper, and Michelle tries to see a personal trainer four times a week.

Woe is you, Michelle.

*****Update: To give readers an idea of the delusion involved in this woman's declarations concerning how things were better when she was a little girl, let's understand that in the year she was born (1964), 19 percent of the population lived in poverty. In 2006, that percentage is 12.3.

You were saying, Michelle?

Of course, it would be nice if media called her out on this nonsense, wouldn't it?

—Noel Sheppard is an economist, business owner, and Associate Editor of NewsBusters.

[littlehouse36]

Just wow.

[Brett66]

She must be looking in a mirror when she says stuff like this.

[Jeff Chandler]

Well, no wonder she’s not proud of it: it’s just too darned mean.

[Post Toasties]

Given how much public angst Hilliary suffered over 'baking cookies' in the '90's, it would be a soul destroying ordeal for Michelle Hussein Obama to play the First Lady.

Obviously, for the sake of her own sanity, we couldn't permit that to happen.

[sinanju]

Even more so than Hillary, she does NOT look natural in a dress.

[Jeff Chandler]

we're a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents

Even if I thought it would do any good to rebuff her comments, I really don't want to expend the energy to do so, and besides, I guess I could get used to her whining.

[Mr. Mojo]

She evidently has a difficult time keep her “progressive” yap shut. Good news for Obama’s opponents.

[JoanneSD]

Economy must be rolling along pretty good if so many americans can donate to the democrat party, so many millions of dollars...

[Senator Goldwater]

Thank you very much.

Now clear the stage for First Lady Cindy McCain.

[Minn]

Starting to look like her mouth, and the leftist brain controlling it, is becoming a major liability for the BHO campaign.

[wastedyears]

Somebody call a WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAmbulance.

[SlapHappyPappy]

Coming from quite possibly the single most negative person in mainstream American politics, maybe she meant it as a compliment.

[flintsilver7]

In 2005, their income was $1.67 million, which was more than they had earned in the previous seven years combined.

$1.67 million over seven years is a little over $238,000 a year. She's referring to $238,000 a year like they're living paycheck to paycheck and shopping at the local Salvation Army.

[VR-21]

She’s really got that Jim Jones charm doesn’t she.

[hsalaw]

Wow is right. What a disgrace she’d be as First Lady.

[ryan71]

She is a gift from heaven!

Give her the microphone!

[G Larry]

Michelle, let me ask you: When you hear high profile people say ignorant things, are you charitable with your comments toward them?

[FUMETTI]

She is a bitch...even Hillary is more patriotic than this c word Michelle.

[beethovenfan]

We don’t need an America-hating, angry, socialist black woman for a first lady. What a horrible thought.

[DMZFrank]

I never thought that I would see a spouse of a presidential candidate who was more of a radical, narcissistic, arrogant, hubristic, self-entitled, and maddening solipsist than Hilary Clinton. To the nation’s dismay, I think we have found her. She is the loose cannon Benito Mussolini face of liberal fascism that Barack He who must not be middle named Obama is so careful to hide. Barack He who must not be middle named Obama is more practiced at keeping the mask up. But in the liberal Hyde Park ghetto that she lives in in Chicago, attending cocktail parties with her coterie of liberal U of C academics, Black South Side DemonRat pols, public sector sinecures, NGO flacks and liberal Sun Times columnists, EVERBODY she knows thinks and feels this way.

The ascendancy of BHO is the realization of the efforts of all the Cultural Marxists whose ideas were nurtured by the Gramcians who set up the Frankfurt School and spawned cultural radicals like Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodore Adorno. Their intellectual progeny are thoroughly ensconced in the MSM, academia, Hollywood, and most importantly in the George Soros directed modern day Democratic Party which is the nest for all the Vipers on the left, the racial identity determininists, the radical feminists, the sexual deviationist lobby, the “watermelon” environmentalists, the open borders crowd and the anti-war seditionists who seek to steal from our magnificent armed forces the victory that they have earned with their blood and valor in the SAME MANNER as they stole our hard earned victory from those of us who are Vietnam vets.
Their apotheosis is the religion of Obama, the Lucifer deceiver who would lead this great nation to Fabian Socialist HELL!!!
Should Obama get a compliant Democrat Congress and Senate, the damage done to this country and to liberty as we have known it, would be incalculable. He is the most dangerous presidential candidates since Henry Wallace. Please check this link. It will tell you all that you need to know. There is credible info that could lead one to believe that his Indonesian stepfather to him to Mosque with the intent of making him Muslim. His own campaign said in a LA Time article that he was never a REGULARLY practicing Muslim, leading one to infer that he was an IRREGULARLY practicing Muslim. That is enough for the Muzzies to convict him as an apostate or to accept him as one of the faithful deceiving the dhimmis. Check the years 1971-1973 at the link below.
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm