Michelle Obama hasn’t been proud of America in at least 26 years?
posted at 5:28 pm on February 18, 2008 by Bryan
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That’s what she said today, if this quote is accurate.
“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “because it feels like hope is making a comeback.”
Only her husband’s run for president has made her proud of America? That’s…extremely narcissistic and self-centered.
Nothing America has done in Michelle Obama’s adult life, which at 44 goes back 26 years to 1982, has made her proud of her country? Nothing? Not winning the Cold War? Not our regular and orderly transitions of power based on the rule of law? Not the fact that we feed and defend the world, not that we lead in science and technology research, not that we elected the first black president in 1992…nothing? Not the fact that she and her husband were able to go to Ivy League schools before embarking on extremely lucrative careers? Not the fact that we help out in disasters wherever they strike in the world? Nothing has made Michelle Obama proud of her country in her entire adult life?
How sad. I certainly don’t want such a vain pessimist as First Lady.
Update: Here’s the video.
(h/t NRO)
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Thanx for pointing out a quote the MSM likely won’t.
Ordinary1 on February 18, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Meet Barack Obama’s Sister Souljah.
spmat on February 18, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Just selling a commodity. Create the need, then present the solution.
a capella on February 18, 2008 at 5:32 PM
The life of a perpetual race baiter. She hates her country.
Rode Werk on February 18, 2008 at 5:32 PM
Maybe she is assigned the task using identity politics allusions.
laelaps on February 18, 2008 at 5:33 PM
Nothing? Not even the fact that YOU, MICHELLE OBAMA, are in the one country in the world where YOU, MICHELLE OBAMA, can have what YOU, MICHELLE OBAMA, have. Not event he fact that YOU, MICHELLE OBAMA, have lived the life that 95% of the world’s population wished they had lived.
I might be unhappy with the GOP and the loser candidate but dang, talk about UNGRATEFUL.
TOPV on February 18, 2008 at 5:33 PM
Don’t omit the option that she just may be a moron.
Hoodlumman on February 18, 2008 at 5:33 PM
Oh fantastic. Another 1st lady who thinks that it is ALL ABOUT MEEEE! Yeah, this place has been such a shameful pit of despair until the advent of this particular smugly self-righteous power couple.
Deety on February 18, 2008 at 5:34 PM
It works just as well that way too.
ReubenJCogburn on February 18, 2008 at 5:35 PM
We have to remember, this is part of the Democrat brainwashing. Hillary and Bill think nothing happened in America before ‘92 and that we went to the pigs after he left office.
TOPV on February 18, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Bwahahahahahaahahaaah!!!! LOL!
Next time I need a diet coke nasal spray, I will come to HotAir first!!
Califemme on February 18, 2008 at 5:36 PM
By the way, turns out Obama spent more money than Clinton and the 8 Republicans in Floria. He claimed to not be campaigning there.
amerpundit on February 18, 2008 at 5:36 PM
Then I guess Obama is like that figurative super salesman able to sell ice to eskimos in selling hope and pride of country to Americans.
Deety on February 18, 2008 at 5:37 PM
It fits with the rest of the transcendent message when you hear it in context. Here is the video.
laelaps on February 18, 2008 at 5:38 PM
Funny how statements like that from the wife os the potential democrat party nominee do not make me proud of our country.
jukin on February 18, 2008 at 5:40 PM
And the day after her husband loses…”there is nothing here in America to be proud of”…
right2bright on February 18, 2008 at 5:41 PM
I just can`t stand her divisive, race-baiting attitude. It makes me dislike her as a person. The new Mrs. Clinton?
ThePrez on February 18, 2008 at 5:41 PM
As Hirsi Ali said…
You come from Freedom, so you SPIT on freedom…
Mazztek on February 18, 2008 at 5:42 PM
She wasn’t proud of our nation coming together on 9/11, or our liberation of Kuwait?
amerpundit on February 18, 2008 at 5:43 PM
And when Barry O loses the general election, she’ll say it’s racist.
JammieWearingFool on February 18, 2008 at 5:43 PM
It’s still just first impressions but I have not liked her for some time now. We’ll see if she can turn me around but this is not the way to do it.
Dash on February 18, 2008 at 5:43 PM
While I’m not real happy with dubya right now, I will say this. He is a honorable, decent man, with a lovely refined wife and they have returned honor, dignity, and love of country to the WH. Unless McCain can pull a rabbit out of the hat, I feel that all starting to slip away. Dang!
a capella on February 18, 2008 at 5:43 PM
It’s more class-warfare than race-baiting when you hear it in full context.
laelaps on February 18, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Is she his Achilles heel?
amerpundit on February 18, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Or the space shuttle flying again after both loses of Challanger and Columbia?
ThePrez on February 18, 2008 at 5:45 PM
It’s hopeful that the change of hope and the hope of change is what unites us as we work for change and hope that the change is hopeful, hopefully. If change is the change for hope then the hope that change is CHANGING is the hope that anyone hoping for change can hope for. I hope.
Ordinary1 on February 18, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Ahh what a First Lady she will be.
ronsfi on February 18, 2008 at 5:47 PM
LOL @ Ordinary!
Califemme on February 18, 2008 at 5:47 PM
I was speaking overall the campaigning. And how about those billions we send over to combat AIDS and maleria in Africa?
ThePrez on February 18, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Or that carrier we sent over to helpt the tsunami victims? I could go on all day, as we all could.
ThePrez on February 18, 2008 at 5:48 PM
I’m not impressed. To think that these moonbats are “passing out” when they hear their rhetoric makes me sick.
TimboJackson on February 18, 2008 at 5:48 PM
So can Barry and her wear a flag pin now?
Drtuddle on February 18, 2008 at 5:49 PM
What part of Michelle Obama didn’t you get? About the only members of Barack’s familial unit that aren’t America-hating, narcissistic empty suits are his daughters.
BKennedy on February 18, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Yeah, Mrs. Obama- thanks to your husband, now we can finally hope… that Hillary steals the election from him.
Thanks, Michelle Obama!
What a tool. If Barak is smart (and I have no reason to believe he is), he’ll lock his idiot wife in a closet until the election is over before she says something even more stupid, arrogant and insulting.
Hollowpoint on February 18, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Liberating the people of Afghanistan?
ThePrez on February 18, 2008 at 5:51 PM
If she was never proud of this country perhaps they should drop their bid for the Presidency and change their citizenship:)
jaybird on February 18, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Or our response to 9/11, when the country came together. Or our liberation of Kuwait. Or anything Clinton did. Or anything Democrats did. Or our pushing for the bringing down the Berlin Wall.
She can’t find a single thing. I’m glad to see it’s the big headline on Drudge.
amerpundit on February 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Put up her interview with Couric…..it was what? Thursday?….’The way to fight terrorism is to invest in the education system in other countries’. Wonderful game plan.
Limerick on February 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM
No. He is her vehicle.
JiangxiDad on February 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM
To hell with her and her distorted view of America.
rplat on February 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Its too bad Mrs. Obama is from “here” . . . because then should could go back to “there” . . .
seanrobins on February 18, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Sure. Just so long as it’s not an American flag pin, I’m sure they’ll be fine with it.
Hollowpoint on February 18, 2008 at 5:53 PM
I’ll never forget the time she said as a black man her husband was taking his life in his hands just going to the gas station…..leaving out the fact that he was most at risk from a violent attack by another black man. That woman is as racist as they come.
ctmom on February 18, 2008 at 5:53 PM
More on Michelle, our next First Lady…why she’ll be just like Diane Feinstein!
And here’s Obama trashing religious conservatives.
JustTruth101 on February 18, 2008 at 5:53 PM
To think that these moonbats “pass out” at their speeches make me sick.
-TJ
TimboJackson on February 18, 2008 at 5:53 PM
The NYC fire fighters raising that flag amidst the rubble of the Twin Towers, not proud of that Mrs. O?
ThePrez on February 18, 2008 at 5:55 PM
Nothing . . . compared to her husband’s empty promises. Not even Al Gore’s invention of the internet. Tsunami victims, AIDs relief in Africa, peace in Ireland, Dallas Cowboys superbowl victories, stopping genocide in Bosnia and the many Nobel prize recipients who happen to be American. Outrageous.
koolbrease on February 18, 2008 at 5:55 PM
No question that seals my vote. Put Obama and his egocentric wife on the NO list.
Wade on February 18, 2008 at 5:55 PM
She may, because it seems really stupid happens more often than not, become first spouse, but she’ll never be mistaken for first lady.
Wind Rider on February 18, 2008 at 5:55 PM
I hope she can help change the future and make us all proud of our Obama-nation!
sleepy-beans on February 18, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Please tell me you’re being sarcastic. The blind, unintentional narcissism in that video is remarkable. She’s proud of her country in the exact same way that Sheryl Crow was “extremely patriotic” while Clinton was President. She’s proud of her country in the same way that anti-war leftists “support the troops.”
Her pride is contingent on her country doing what she tells it to do. No thanks.
spmat on February 18, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Michelle has pleased Bill.
JiangxiDad on February 18, 2008 at 5:57 PM
Not even Al Gore winning the Nobel? C’mon, lady!
Seriously, she could turn out to be the gift that keeps on giving. She lacks the charisma of Barry and is brimming with ’80s-style academic radicalism. Part of the Republican strategy should be goading her into talking more. Where’s my bucket of Obama bait?
Vote Sauron 08 on February 18, 2008 at 5:57 PM
This presumes that her adult life has begun.
Methinks I smell a messy diaper.
(Bet she’d insist on black baby powder.)
profitsbeard on February 18, 2008 at 5:58 PM
You mean This One?
Mazztek on February 18, 2008 at 5:59 PM
This is shaping up to be
a reallythe most disappointing presidential election in my life time. Jimmy Carter, Bill Klinton, now this. Sigh.Zorro on February 18, 2008 at 6:00 PM
What a shameful thing to say by someone who wants to be first lady.
Blake on February 18, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Just typical racist venom. The GOP should encourage her black womanhood to come out and show exactly the hate she and probably he has for America.
volsense on February 18, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Yes, odd. Just as Michelle is beginning to become proud, I have been becoming less proud.
JiangxiDad on February 18, 2008 at 6:01 PM
The rest of the “transcendant message” makes it worse. Just more of Michelle Obama ladling out the anti-American leftwing pablum for the easily manipulated, while encouraging the prejudices of the congenitally angry and eternally hard-done-to - fits perfectly with the excerpts from her UCLA stump speech that Hugh Hewitt dug up the other day. It’s how lots of young people get inducted into the “movement.” Michelle Obama herself is herself likely a victim of this kind of agitprop, and has probably never experienced or acknowledged any serious challenged on it, not least because she’s richly benefited from the mindset. Indeed, she’s likely been encouraged to see herself and the world this way for her “entire adult life,” especially at “elite” institutions like Harvard.
CK MacLeod on February 18, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Well,lets look on the bright side,kind of:
Hillary has Bill,and lets face it,oooooh he been
really good for her campaign,hehe,hahahahaha.
And then there’s Barrack and Michelle,and so far his
campaign hasn’t really hit any nasty snags all the way,
oh wait,she said WHAT!
canopfor on February 18, 2008 at 6:03 PM
I meant it wasn’t as race-baiting as it first sounded out of context with the rest of the speech. The Obamas are “transcending race” — by going to class-warfare. Michelle is the new Angela Davis.
laelaps on February 18, 2008 at 6:03 PM
Ordinary1 on February 18, 2008 at 5:45 PM
A repost.
I believe together we can create a world in which I hope we all believe that change can come when we are empowered by diversity and believe that there is hope for fundamental change in the belief that hopefully, the world is ready to change into a world of comprehensive human diversity empowered by the audacity of the belief in hope!
Halelueah!
ronsfi on February 18, 2008 at 10:43 AM
ronsfi on February 18, 2008 at 6:04 PM
I heard some of her speach on c-span radio today and my jaw was on the floor. She’s a full-blown socialist, and then some. She kept repeating a phrase (and I’m paraphrasing b/c i didn’t write it down), it went something like: the more you achieve, the more is expected of you. I heard her say it more than once. It reminded me of the famous quote from Karl Marx, “From each according to his ability; to each according to his need”. Karl would be proud.
Over30 on February 18, 2008 at 6:05 PM
YES WE CAN!! LOL
The other night when he was giving one of his “electrifying” acceptance speeches, and he was doing his call/answer routine (Obama: “Yes we can! Audience: “Yes we can!”), he rattled off a REAL sentence, quite a long one, and I was thinking how funny it would have been had the audience repeated it verbatim.
capitalist piglet on February 18, 2008 at 6:08 PM
Pathetic. Yeah…just what America needs…a “blame America first” First Lady.
CP on February 18, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Lets see…
…he won’t put his hand over his heart for the pledge of allegiance
…wear a flag lapel pin - it’s too jingoistic
…she being fortunate enough to graduate from Princeton/Harvard hasn’t been proud of her country in a quarter of a century.
I suspect we’re in for another term of “co-presidents” and I wonder if both candidates wish their resprespective spouses would just close their mouths.
anne on February 18, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Have the Clintons been asked about this quote? Of course, the MSM won’t be so tough on a Democrat.
thuja on February 18, 2008 at 6:11 PM
I feel like an Obama stealing speeches. For the record, I support your words of hope and change!
Ordinary1 on February 18, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Oy! You just made me realize she’ll pull a Hillary in 8-12 years and run for president.
laelaps on February 18, 2008 at 6:14 PM
First, she certainly doesn’t know her country, and her country’s sacrifices, so that she can be this ignorant without consequences.
And second, what the hell are those “basic common issues”? Certainly none have been identified/defined by her husband.
She is as arrogant, narcissistic, misanthropic and nasty as Mrs. Clinton.
Entelechy on February 18, 2008 at 6:14 PM
Wait a tick….is the Clinton camp going to
come out and say that Hillary planned on saying
that in her next stump speech,and the Obama camp
ripped them off!Hehe.
canopfor on February 18, 2008 at 6:17 PM
blah, blah, change, blah, hope, blah, blah, change, blah. This woman’s speeches are even more vacuous and banal than those of her husband.
Pax americana on February 18, 2008 at 6:17 PM
What’s that word I was looking for. Help me out here Jane.
. . Jane. Right, It’s C—t . Thank you Jane.
Texyank on February 18, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Good - another Hillary:(
anne on February 18, 2008 at 6:18 PM
Many, though of course not all, blacks feel this was about the US and I’m sure they feel fully justified. I know it’s impolite to point out but let’s not pretend it isn’t true. Obama’s “spiritual mentor” and the guy who married Obama and Michelle has said for more insulting things about this country and its people.
Sean68 on February 18, 2008 at 6:19 PM
I love the way they just throw the word “Hope” around. Hope in what? Bigger goverment, Socialism, more of the Culture of Death? Obama offer no “Hope,” to the unborn, especially if they survived an abortion. He would’nt even pass the babies alive act.
Don’t talk to be about hope if it dosen’t include as all.
Irenaeus on February 18, 2008 at 6:21 PM
Michelle Obama is to Barry, what Bill is to Hillary.
Kini on February 18, 2008 at 6:21 PM
The Clintons have just been given a precious gift on a platinum platter, and they will make good use of it, in this case deservedly so.
Entelechy on February 18, 2008 at 6:21 PM
This is mild stuff from Mrs. Obama. Just wait until they lose.
SouthernGent on February 18, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Preach it!
Ordinary1 on February 18, 2008 at 6:23 PM
Before today, I actually thought this woman had some modicum of class. Too bad she had to reveal herself as the opportunist that seems to be. She only now feels after over 2 decades of her adult life, that she is NOW proud of America? I guess she’s another hate America liberal. I’ll be interested in what her husband may say about her statement.
Poway on February 18, 2008 at 6:24 PM
She appears to be a full blown Socialist and Black Nationalist who is way too obsessed about race and racial issues. No class, no style, just aggression and a big mouth.
She’s an ingrate who doesn’t realize what her country has done for her. Where else could she shoot her mouth off like that but in the United States?
UnEasyRider on February 18, 2008 at 6:25 PM
Well, that goes along with them not having maps, and such.
Pointing out to Michelle O that, just as an example, the 9/11 highjackers were from wealthy and well-educated backgrounds would probably be a complete waste of time.
ReubenJCogburn on February 18, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Maybe we can get a ObamaMama/BilloHill debate. That has pay-per-view all over it.
Limerick on February 18, 2008 at 6:26 PM
History will forever be viewed through an ethnic lens. All people look to history to tell the story of their people and make historical observations and assessments from an ethnic perspective. Mrs. Obama can’t be proud of America’s achievements because she rejects them as the white man’s history.
DerKrieger on February 18, 2008 at 6:29 PM
If this is the first time that she has been proud of American, then I am certain she is not the lady I want to be the face of this nation.
Spirit of 1776 on February 18, 2008 at 6:29 PM
Indeed. However, Bill will need to be a bit more subtle than he was in South Carolina. The reverse race card requires a keen eye and a steady hand. They can’t go anti-socialist on her, so it’ll have to be race with an eye to the Hispanic voters who are watching.
a capella on February 18, 2008 at 6:30 PM
An expansion on the previous post and probably more to the point.
DerKrieger on February 18, 2008 at 6:32 PM
Since when have Democrats been pessimistic? I thought they were a happy bunch of people who just wish to leave people alone by maintaining their repulsion and hatred of big, over-invasive governments.
I am so confused! What is the world coming to when even Democrats believe in the power of government!
Weebork on February 18, 2008 at 6:34 PM
I guess getting into Harvard wasn’t that big a deal.
On second thought it isn’t if this is what they produce
400lb Gorilla on February 18, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Beware America. Obama. The squeaky wheel always gets the grease, but that’s all it is, a squeaky wheel.
Sounder on February 18, 2008 at 6:37 PM
wait, hold on for 1 second…. McCain. wow, when i hold my nose i can say his name, maybe i can vote for him as well.
custer on February 18, 2008 at 6:40 PM
Mr and Mrs. O are the new Clintons. Have they discussed the idea that they both will be president someday? They’ve overplayed their hand, of course. Barak could have had a governorship in a minute, and followed Bill’s course. We’ll see how his audacious gamble pays off. So far, so good. He and his wife’s low view of the electorate seem to be paying off.
JiangxiDad on February 18, 2008 at 6:40 PM
This should be a very good reason for not staying home on election day. Be afraid . . . be very afraid.
rplat on February 18, 2008 at 6:43 PM
Michelle Obama is to Barry,what Bill is to Hillary.
Kini on February 18,2008 at 6:21PM.
Kini: Thats a Bingo,were you been,barbecuing!
canopfor on February 18, 2008 at 6:45 PM
Nope, she’s his bad cop. A worse race baiter than Jesse Jackson if you ask me, in that the hatred and bitterness she effuses are delineated on her permanently distorted face (possibly because she has to understate/sublimate her resentment so as not to alienate potential voters).
aengus on February 18, 2008 at 6:50 PM
Doesn’t she mean 28 years since we have not had a Democrat not named Clinton since then. Pass the Kool-Aid.
RobCon on February 18, 2008 at 6:51 PM
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