Michelle Obama, her days as First Lady coming to an end, is
reflecting on the legacy she and her husband will leave after eight years in
the White House. In a recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, she graciously
acknowledged that the country is entering a time of hopelessness.
“We are
feeling what not having hope feels like,” the First Lady told Winfrey in
response to a question about whether President Obama had achieved the ‘hope and
change’ he promised while campaigning back in 2008. (I am feeling like throwing up).
According
to the New York Times account, “she alluded to the contrast many in the country
are feeling” since the November 8th election: “’We feel the
difference now,’ she said, noting that her husband had succeeded in keeping his
campaign promise of fostering hope. ‘Hope is necessary. It’s a necessary
concept,’ she elaborated. What else do you have if you don’t have hope? What do
you give your kids if you can’t give them hope?’”
The
Times account continued, “Those are philosophical questions that the nation will no
doubt begin to grapple with in earnest over the coming months. And they’re not
the first contemplative remarks the first lady, who has earned a special place
in Americans’ hearts, has made recently. Last week,
she reportedly left White House staffers in
tears after a
heartfelt thank you speech at a holiday party.”
That
is the kind of unbiased, hard-hitting, objective reporting the paper is known
for, is it not?
Those
are philosophical questions that the
nation will no doubt begin to grapple
with in earnest over the coming months? No, the country just chose change of a different sort, and
will be too busy celebrating a renewed
sense of hope… for the economy, American
values, the middle class, Middle America, and America’s role in the world.
Michelle
Obama told us that the first time she
was ever proud of her country was when her husband was elected. Now, after
spending two terms in the White
House, and just a few days before Christmas, she tells the nation that, since
she and President Obama are leaving, the country is entering a period of
hopelessness. Perhaps I’ve missed something in my studies, but, has any other
outgoing First Lady made a point of telling her countrymen that they have no hope once she and the
President leave office? Classy, elegant, uplifting.
Barack
and Michelle Obama are to unbridled arrogance as Marx and Lenin were to
collectivism.
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