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Michelle Obama’s tales of woe By Byron York Posted: 05/07/08 06:39 PM
I took in the Michelle Obama Show this week in Charlotte, N.C.
The wife of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was in town for an election-eve get-out-the-vote rally, to make sure that Obama voters were fired up and ready to go for Tuesday’s primary.
Usually, such events are rah-rah, go-team affairs. But Mrs. Obama’s appearance was a little different.
It was an hour-long tale of resentment and anger.
First, she complained at great length that her husband had been treated unfairly in the Democratic presidential race. Every time he made a move forward, she said, “they” — she never spelled out exactly who “they” were — moved the goalposts a bit farther away from him.
First, “they” said he couldn’t raise the money necessary to run a big-league campaign.
But “once he proved that he could raise the money, then all of a sudden money didn’t matter,” Mrs. Obama told the crowd. “Everybody said, ‘Well, money isn’t important.’ ”
Then “they” said the test for Obama would be whether he could build a political organization. But “once it was built, they said it’s not an organization — the stakes changed again.”
Next, “they” said Obama had to win Iowa. But “once he won Iowa, then all of a sudden Iowa was no longer important.”
“They” had moved the bar again. This time, Obama had to win a primary state.
“Then we rolled into South Carolina,” Mrs. Obama said. “Then you know what they said? They said South Carolina didn’t count, because Barack was supposed to win.”
Then came Super Tuesday, and after that Obama’s stretch of victories in a series of primary and caucus states.
Still, Mrs. Obama complained, “they” tried to undermine her husband every step of the way.
“We’ve learned that we’re still living in a time and in a nation where the bar is set, right?” she said.
“They tell you all you need to do is do these things and you’ll get to the bar, so you go about the business of doing those things.
“You start working hard and sacrificing, and you think you’re getting closer to the bar, you’re working and you’re struggling, you get right to that bar, you’re reaching out for the bar, and then what happens?
“They raise the bar. Raise the bar. Shift it to the side. Keep it just out of reach.
“And that’s just what’s been happening in this race.”
All the while, the crowd cheered as Mrs. Obama listed one supposed injustice after another.
Now, it should be noted that her husband was, at that moment, on the verge of a blowout victory in North Carolina, one that would spur new calls for his opponent to drop out of the race.
So you might have thought Michelle Obama would be a pretty happy camper.
Instead, you got the sense that she was angry that the Democratic Party did not, at some early point in the race, simply award her husband the nomination by acclamation.
Instead, he had to face an opponent who — get this — really wanted to win it for herself.
Mrs. Obama had lots of other complaints, too.
She’s irritated at those people who have suggested that she and Sen. Obama are elitists.
And she appears to be still outraged — at this late date — by the fact that she had to take out loans to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School.
It took her years to pay them back, something she has kvetched about in numerous public appearances.
Imagine that! First she had to borrow money to go to some of the world’s most selective and expensive schools — schools whose graduates usually do pretty well in the world — and then they made her pay it back.
There “they” go again.
If you’re wondering how that negative message went across in Charlotte, the answer is, it went over very well.
This was as pro-Obama a crowd as you could find in a decidedly pro-Obama state.
So look for Mrs. Obama to continue sending out her message of dissatisfaction and resentment.
She appears to have begun the presidential race in an angry mood, and, despite her husband’s extraordinary success, it looks like she’ll finish it angry, too.
York is a White House correspondent for National Review. His column appears in The Hill each week. E-mail: byork@thehill.com
Michelle Obama is angry. “They” made her repay those college loans for her Princeton-Harvard Education. She’s angry that the path to the White House wasn’t carved out in a river of gold. She’s angry that Obama and she weren’t handed the keys to a platinum yacht to dock outside of the White House after being handed the keys to the White House in a no contest election.
I suppose she wants no election. She thinks that because Obama is black that he should be given the Presidency as reparations for oppression and slavery.
I’d like to know who this “they” is. Who is this nefarious collection of ne’er do wells who stand in the path of Obama. Holding that bar higher and higher. Who is this fantasy shadow group. Maybe “they” are Hillary’s vast right wing conspirators moonlighting in Michelle’s head. Rattling around in there with all of the rest of the loose left marbles.
Michelle Obama, the ever angry, Grinch of Election 2008 who tells us that America is bad except when they make her proud. The ever reproving mother hen clucking at the heels of bad, bad whitey. Jeremiah and Michelle must have had quite a few indoctrination meetings. Michelle is to Obama what Madame Mao was to Mao Zedong. His ever partisan fighter willing to throw everyone to the wolves and to criticize all in the name of her husbands power and prestige.
Yeah, I can’t wait for 4 years of this scrooge in the White House. I’m sure it will be speech after speech of how bad, bad whitey (Congress and the Senate) are holding back faith and hope. We know what’s good for you people. If only they (the Constitution and the SCOTUS) would stop raising the bar and get out of the way. I’m not sure if it is appropriate for a President or First Lady to play themselves off as victims.
Michele Obama is the perpetual victim. She’s been given everything that America can give a person. She has even wisely taken advantage of these gifts and become part of the Elite. She IS the “they” that she rails against so often in her angry speeches.
Yet, still she plays the VICTIM at every turn. Will this be the tactic in their talks with Ahmadinejad and the like. Are they going to turn the tables and play the victim card in Affairs of State as well.
How a person who was given the opportunities that Michelle Obama has been given has the gall to play the victim is beyond me. Nonetheless, Michelle Obama is convinced that “they” (translated: Whitey) is attempting to raise the bar at every avenue to hold Obama down. The guy is on the verge of being the Democratic Candidate for President based primarily upon the color of his skin. He has had overwhelming support. The press has fawned over him as if he is the coming of the Once and Future King. Yet, “they” are holding Obama down. “They” are raising the bar.
Who is this “they?”
Lose the victim shtick, Michelle. It’s unbecoming of a prospective 1st Lady. Reach out in a real and meaningful way and try to act as if you know the meaning of the word dignity.
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