America’s Unhappiest Millionaire: Michelle Obama’s gospel of misery

National Review ^ | May 5, 2008 | Yuval Levin

[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.

[RegulatorCountry]

Poor baby, Michelle’s just so oppressed.

[kbennkc]

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 .

[Alouette]

Michelle is actually making Hillary look good.

[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!

[littlehouse36]

[Octar]

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

[Proud_USA_Republican]

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.

[hinckley buzzard]

There's something mentally wrong with this a-hole woman of privilege. Clearly not First Lady material.

[decal]

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.

[topfile]

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)

[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.”

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.

[The Worthless Miracle]

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

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

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?'

[A message]

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

That's the truth.

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The Democrat misery tour is hoping to take you away,

Hoping to take you away.

A misery trip.

[Mygirlsmom]

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.

[sinanju]

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

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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.