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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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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: 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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