Michelle was quoted during that visit to the school as saying to the kids that the First Lady 'pay' wasn't so good. How gracious, eh. Being First Lady for nothing is probably going to require a LOT more from the unlovely Michelle than making $1000 per day for doing nothing but showing up at a fancy office and placing a couple of phone calls. The visit to the school was because they 'needed to get out the White House'? They just got there, folks.
I remember how the Nixon girls complained about having to live in the White House. This is not a slam against Nixon, at all. I am fairly sympathetically disposed toward him because of his staunch of Whittaker Chambers, in his early years, when all of the Beltway was lining up behind their own State Department denizen, Alger Hiss. That goes a long way with me. I do remember the girls complaining about White House life, however.
I think you either appreciate what a great honor it is to be able to live in the White House, or you feel put upon. Which is it possibly already shaping up to be for the 'we're entitled' Obamas?
I remember during the primary campaign and general election campaign period when it seemed as if tantrums were a response to any opposition that could not be refuted. I believe he is in way over his head and were the DBM actually doing its job, press conference questioning directed at the inadequacies already present in the administration would further reveal his petulant attitude. Remember how offended he was when his experience as a community organizer was mocked at the RNC convention. We were told that even Jesus was a community organizer, thereby establishing that any criticism would be tantamount to criticism The Christ himself. I find that to be utterly ridiculous. But, those who quickly defended the 0ne with such an offensive comparison themselves are wanting in their faith and belief, IMO.
He is not his own person, he is a manifestation of the hard left, created from 60's radicals, nurtured and grown into the idolic vision they have had to contain for many years. When has there been a president where we have not known the most intimate of details of their life story that had elevated the individual to the highest office in the land? We know relatively nothing of his past aside from that which we have learned on our own, not from pseudo responsible sources as prescribed by the first amendment for the free press. The founding father in the infinite wisdom knew the first amendment was necessary as their intention was for the free press to actually be a check on government. It goes without saying, as enablers, the DBM forfeited their constitutional role and helped elect the radical.
I am an eternal optimist. However, all things being equal, a realist at heart and in that sense, I have genuine fear for the future of our beloved country as I see the first three weeks of this madness as a window into the future. A future that will reveal a country that might change forever as we have known it perhaps able one day to rectify the damage but, nevertheless, one that may change in a way that would not be recognized by our parents or grandparents.
This is not change for the better for the country and its citizens. It is change that will appease those who seek the destruction of the free society created by the founding fathers. Where else on this earth and when was there a free society such as this created that existed or exists even today? This is the modus operandi of the left that not only resides in this country but, worldwide....