Posted by
CW on Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:24:38 PM
As a sideline to the fight for the presidency we have the enigma of Michelle Obama: A highly paid lawyer, educated at Princeton and Harvard and potentially first lady of the United States of America. You might think that someone with her autobiography would look upon such a life with wonder and gratitude. Instead, seemingly oblivious to her status as living proof of the American dream, she derides this country for her inability to be proud of it.
Here’s what she should have said:
“I have been fortunate to live in a country that truly is the land of opportunity. Americans, as a nation, have worked and sacrificed to overcome the natural tendency people have to separate themselves by color, by race or by culture, and to discriminate against or distrust those whom we see as different from ourselves. It is a perpetual struggle fueled largely by human nature, and although we sometimes fail on an individual level, we have made great strides as a nation. For this I think we should all be proud.”
Had she expressed this type of sentiment and shown an understanding and appreciation for the complex, human struggles that America has risen above, she would have earned the respect and fondness of the American public on both sides of the aisle. Instead, her comments and attitude betray the sniffy, scolding mindset that is the essence of left-wing thinking.