Political Cowardice

“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.” — the Reverend William John Henry Boetcker (1873–1962)

Angry Black Woman?

In the 2008 campaign Michelle Obama presented her self to the world as some what of a victim of oppression by a “downright mean country,” who apparently rose from poverty despite forces of society struggling to keep her downtrodden.

We all recall her “for the first time in my adult life I’ve really been proud . . .”  frankly that comment turned my stomach.

To her, the country has not progressed beyond slavery, never mind overcoming the civil rights struggles of the 1960′s.

Some how I suspect that in public Michelle often is holding back, but just below the surface, burning inside.

For me it is easy to visualize her in private, becoming that woman we all have experienced in the shopping line, at the gas station, in traffic, in full “chicken-neck” mode, all puffed up with sense of entitlement and rage that anyone dare merely gaze at her incorrectly.

It’s going to be very difficult for Michelle to be taken seriously when she tries to play the 99% card when she has more in common with the 1%, and on our dime to boot!

“The other day, she thundered, ‘Will we be a country that tells folks who’ve done everything right but are struggling to get by, “Tough luck, you’re on your own”? Is that who we are?’ Given that the federal budget has increased by $2 trillion in just a decade, entitlements are at record levels, and this administration is now running $1.5 trillion annual deficits, it is hard to imagine that any government has told anyone ‘tough luck.’

And it is even harder to suggest that nine months of a Republican-controlled House — voted in as part of the largest midterm correction since 1938 — has had much effect on the Obama employment agenda of nearly three years, the majority of which time Obama controlled both houses of Congress and borrowed nearly $5 trillion in sending unemployment over 9 percent.

And when Ms. Obama charges, “Will we be a country where opportunity is limited to just the few at the top? Who are we?” one wonders, why, then, in the past three years of hard times, did she insist on vacationing, in iconic fashion, at Vail, Martha’s Vineyard, and Costa del Sol, the tony haunts of “the few at the top”? In these rough times, surely a smaller staff, less travel, and budgetary economies would have enhanced her populist message of some at the top enjoying perks at the expense of others.” –historian Victor Davis Hanson

Sources: The Patriot Post, National Review Online: Michelle Obama and ‘the Few at the Top’

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” –Thomas Jefferson

Mike Truman
Culture in America, National Political, Racism in America
Obama, Politics, Radical Feminism