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May 7, 2008
Raising the Bar
Posted by Dave Blount at May 7, 2008 3:00 PM
Byron York reports on a recent Michelle Obama speech in Charlotte. She explains why Obama Nation should share her bitterness toward America, and lays the groundwork for a massive tantrum if voters dare choose national survival over putting her nutty and underqualified husband in the White House:
Walking onstage to chants of "Yes, we can!" and "Fired up — ready to go!" she quickly gets to the heart of her message: There are forces out there who are trying to take away everything Barack has worked for. They — she doesn't mention anyone in particular but does refer to one "brand name politician" — are trying to win this election for themselves and thereby deny Obama the opportunity to move America to the mountaintop of hope. And they must be stopped.
"We've learned that we're still living in a time and in a nation where the bar is set, right?" she tells the crowd.
"That's right."
"They tell you all you need to do is do these things and you'll get to the bar — "
"Uh-huh."
"So you go about the business of doing those things — "
"Yes — "
Her husband has been doing just that, Obama explains — raising money, building an organization, winning caucuses, winning primaries, and amassing a large number of delegates. And yet he still hasn't won, because nothing is ever enough for those unnamed adversaries.
"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!"
"They raise the bar. Raise the bar. Shift it to the side. Keep it just out of reach."
"Yes!"
"And that's just what's been happening in this race."
Mrs. Obama begins a long riff about how that is happening not just to her husband but to Americans as a whole, who are working hard only to find the benefits of their work kept just out of reach. "You know what happens when you live in a society where the vast majority of people are struggling every day to reach an ever-shifting and moving bar?" she asks. "You know what happens in that kind of society?"
"THEY GET FRUSTRATED!" yells a man in the audience.
That's right, Obama says. And that frustration leaves people isolated and afraid, and then "we pass on all that negative energy to the next generation."
A less constructive message would be difficult to imagine.
Michelle Obama admits that her test scores did not warrant her admission to Princeton, from where she moved on to take her comfy position among the wealthy elite. Presumably she owes her career to the mentality of affirmative action, without which no one would take Barack Obama's presidential bid even half seriously.
Many have worked hard to create the American Dream, so that the Obamas could have it handed to them as a reward for their politically correct ethnicity. But Michelle is still bitter, because it's not enough. The bar is raised, all right. Even if we turn over the country to Obama's band of racist neo-Marxists, we will still have to do more to expiate the sin of being Caucasian, and more and more and more, until we have nothing left to give.
On a tip from Matterhorn.
