If one were to collate the reverends 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 Obamas 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 were a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents the echoes are downright eerie.
“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