Michelle Malkin on our Michelle...

I received this today from a RW friend. The RWs must be gearing up for the onslaught on the Obamas. How disgusting.


Michelle Obama and Michelle Malkin, A comparison written by the latter.

2 MICHELLES, 2 AMERICAS & SHAME vs. PRIDE

By Michelle Malkin



Like Michelle Obama, I am a "woman of color." Like Michelle Obama, I am a working mother of two young children. Like Michelle Obama, I am a member of the 13th generation of Americans born since the founding of our great nation.

Unlike Michelle Obama, I can't keep track of the number of times I've been proud - really proud - of my country since I was born, and privileged to live in it. At a recent speech in Milwaukee on behalf of her husband's Democratic presidential campaign, Mrs. Obama remarked, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change."

Mrs. Obama's statement was met with warm applause from other Barack supporters who have also apparently been devoid of pride in their country during their adult lifetimes. Or maybe it was just a Pavlovian response to the word "change." What a sad, empty, narcissistic, ungrateful, unthinking lot!

I'm just seven years younger than Mrs. Obama. We've grown up and lived in the same era. And yet, her self-absorbed attitude is completely foreign to me. What planet is she living on? Since when was now the only time the American people have ever been "hungry for change"?

Michelle, ma belle, Barack is not the center of the universe. Newsflash: The Obamas did not invent "change" any more than Hillary invented "leadership", or John McCain invented "straight talk." We were both adults when the Berlin wall fell, Michelle. That was earth-shattering change. We've lived through two decades' worth of peaceful, if contentious, election cycles under the rule of law, which have brought about "change" and upheaval, both good and bad. We were adults through several launches of the space shuttle, in case you were snoozing. And as adults, we've witnessed and benefited from dizzyingly rapid advances in technology, communications, science, and medicine pioneered by American entrepreneurs who yearned to change the world and succeeded.

You want "change"? Go ask the patients whose lives have been improved and extended by American pharmaceutical companies that have flourished under the best economic system in the world.

If American ingenuity, a robust constitutional republic, and the fall of communism don't do it for you, hon, then how about American heroism and sacrifice? How about every Memorial Day? Every Veterans Day? Every Independence Day? Every Medal of Honor ceremony? Has she never attended a welcome-home ceremony for the troops? For me, there's the thrill of the Blue Angels roaring over cloudless skies. And the somber awe felt amid the hallowed waters that surround the sunken U.S.S. Arizona at the Pearl Harbor memorial.

Every naturalization ceremony I've attended, where hundreds of new Americans raised their hands to swear an oath of allegiance to this land of liberty, has been a moment of pride for me. So have the awesome displays of American compassion at home and around the world. When millions of Americans rallied to help victims of the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia - including members of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group that sped from Hong Kong to assist survivors - my heart filled with pride. It did again when the citizens of Houston opened their arms to Hurricane Katrina victims and folks across the country rushed to their churches and offices of the Salvation Army and Red Cross to volunteer.

How about American resilience? Does that not make you proud? Only a heart of stone could be unmoved by the strength, valor, and determination displayed in New York , Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa., on September 11, 2001.

I believe it was Michael Kinsley who quipped that a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. In this case, it's what happens when an elite Democratic politician's wife says what a significant portion of the party's base really believes to be the truth: America is more a source of shame than pride.

Michelle Obama has achieved enormous professional success, political influence, and personal acclaim in America. Ivy League educated, she's been lauded by Essence magazine as one of the 25 World's Most Inspiring Women; by Vanity Fair as one of the ten World's Best-Dressed Women; and named one of "The Harvard 100" most influential alumni. She has had an amazingly blessed life. But you wouldn't know it from her campaign rhetoric and her griping about her and her husband's student loans.

For years, we've heard liberals get offended at any challenge to their patriotism. And so they are again aggrieved and rising to explain away Mrs. Obama's remarks.

Lady Michelle and her defenders protest too much.

http://jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin022008.php3

Pundette needs to have her mouth permanently stoppered up with liquid nail...

I question her patriotism. Actually I f***ing demand that it's pompous bullshit nationalism with no substance or support. Pride is for people who positively contribute to an effort Malkin.

But count me out.

Ugh.

Malkin is a meanspirited idiot-clown

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", her self-absorbed attitude is completely foreign to me." Yeah, right. She can project with the best of the Republican hypocrites. There is no one on the Right who spews more divisive hatred and anti-Americanism than that fruitcake.

Anyone who is not proud of this country for the accomplishments she listed is a fool. This does not excuse Malkin's past/present/future behavior but this OP is quite right. Michelle Obama made a stupid statement and it will be played again and again on some repuke 527 ad until Nov. 1.

and being proud of current events.

I'm somewhat older than Michelle, and I've seen damn little to be proud of in my adult life. The civil rights marches were over before I was out of high school. Vietnam was ongoing - lot to be proud of there. I was proud of the courage of the Tehran hostages, but not proud of our support of the dictator that precipitated the Iranian crisis. I stopped being proud of our accomplishments in space when we gave up on exploration, and concentrated on economic exploitation - business as usual is not inspiring.

Tell me, what great accomplishments HAVE we achieved since 1970 (my adult years) or even the late 70s (whatever would be Michelle's move into adulthood)? I'm very hard pressed to find any. We abandonded civil rights. We abandoned economic justice. We've become the state with the largest prison population on the planet, and also the highst RATE of incarceration as well. In my adult years we've picked fights with Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Iraq, and Iraq again - did ANY of them really threaten us?

Feeling pride at visiting the Arizona memorial has NOTHING to do with what Michelle said.