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May 7, 2008
Raising the Bar
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.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 7, 2008 3:00 PM
Comments
Running for President is hard. Well, I never suspected such a thing!
"The bar" used to be set high enough to prevent a first term Senator with a questionable attitude toward his own country and a racist "spiritual advisor" from gaining a major party nomination for President. Looks like the bar has been lowered, but Michelle can go on thinking otherwise.
Obama's next big headache is going to come out of her mouth soon. I don't know when or where, but I suspect her mouth is going to get him in trouble again.
Posted by: forest at May 7, 2008 3:41 PM
Yes Obama, my pole is set very high, VERY high. But it's set for you, not that Beeyatch of yours.
Posted by: Dick Quest at May 7, 2008 4:07 PM
From what I've seen so far, this gal seems to have bulled her way up through enfeebled administrations using affirmative action and adopting a posture of uncompromising, raging arrogance.
She's been surrounded her entire 'career' with genuflecting cowards and enablers.
She brings her children to a racist church.
She has a no-show, 4kilobuck+ a year "job".
Her writing indicates rock-like dumbness.
And now her sphere of admirers has reached national proportions and she gets to lecture on how rotten everything is.
Adds up doesn't it?
Posted by: Fiberal at May 7, 2008 4:09 PM
Imagine what she'd be like as First Lady. Ugh.
Posted by: Kevin at May 7, 2008 4:31 PM
She will be very, very helpful toward the the sole remaining hope of sane Americans: a Republican president in 2012.
Posted by: mega at May 7, 2008 4:40 PM
She will be very, very helpful toward the the sole remaining hope of sane Americans: a Republican president in 2012.
A whole lot of bad can happen between now and 2012, mega. I don't like the looks of this.
Posted by: Kevin at May 7, 2008 5:30 PM
I'd like to take the bar and shove it up her ass.
Posted by: anon at May 7, 2008 7:22 PM
She sure is addicted to her victimology but I do love her showering Bilary with her vitriol. Keep slugging it out until August guys!
Posted by: mandy at May 7, 2008 8:00 PM
Hope the next 9/11 wipes out all you American altoghether.
Get' er' done, Muzzies!
Posted by: Fuck the USA at May 7, 2008 8:02 PM
Thank you for proving so many of my beliefs about the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome, Mr. FTUSA.
Posted by: Thulsa Doom at May 7, 2008 9:06 PM
Kevin, don't sweat it. Obama the inexperienced, unqualified, feel-good, "let's work together" snob will get swallowed whole by the bureaucracy within one week of taking office. From then on, it'll be about climate change conferences, state dinners with French diplomats, UN meetings, little bit 'o populist rhetoric, a lot of Carter era guys in their 60s to 80s in advisory positions heading up "High Level Panels" on this and that, and basically a caretaker government of professional bureaucrats until 2012 when someone with qualifications (of either party) gets elected.
Meanwhile, it'll give the Repubs a chance to figure out what, if anything, they stand for, and possibly come up with a candidate worth voting for.
Plus, we'll still be in Iraq in 2012, Obama or otherwise, and that'll totatlly demoralize the left, leaving them a quivering mess of directionless hippies feeling betrayed by their own party, Obama most of all.
Except for the part about Iran maybe nuking Israel while our govt is asleep at the wheel babbling about multilateralism, I generally see long-term upside to the whole Obama joke.
Posted by: mega at May 7, 2008 9:22 PM
Mrs. O must think she 's at Burger King. This is America -- you don't get it "your way" just because you demand it.
Posted by: bustoff at May 7, 2008 9:56 PM
Okay - in a nutshell according to the Obama's:
You've gained your happiness from the money you made from the sweat of little brown people.
You've acquired your intelligence through the suppression of black people.
And you gain some unknown-only-to-homos satisfaction out of being "mean" to homosexuals.
It will balance the universe if you give it all back and EVERYBODY becomes unhappy, poor, stupid, and sexually deviate.
Lowest common denominator rules.
Hmmmm - sounds like...
Braaaaaaaack (excuse me) is coming for you.
Posted by: Jimbo at May 7, 2008 10:31 PM
I believe it was Margaret Thatcher who said, "Eventually, Socialists run out of other people's money". I'm going to convert my money into gold and bury it in the yard befort Obama and his little trained minions get their mitts on it.
Posted by: Texan at May 7, 2008 10:47 PM
Here's a woman who went to Princeton and Harvard, took a $350K per year sinecure after she graduated, and does nothing but b1tch about what a terrible and unfair place America is.
In other words, she's a pretty typical elitist lib.
Posted by: V the K at May 8, 2008 4:36 AM
DEMONcrats in Senate looking to make thing worse! At least Bush has said he would veto it from what Ive heard (at least he is still a conservative on some issues).
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48253/story.htm
"US Senate Democrats Unveil New Energy Tax Plan
US: May 8, 2008
WASHINGTON - Democrats in the Senate Wednesday unveiled a new energy package that would revoke $17 billion in tax breaks extended to big oil companies like Exxon Mobil Corp and slap a 25 percent windfall profits tax on firms that don't invest in new energy sources. "
Posted by: General Jack D. Ripper at May 8, 2008 5:31 AM
Ah, so the plan is to get more and cheaper energy by punishing the people who provide it. Typical democrat logic.
Posted by: V the K at May 8, 2008 6:43 AM
The predictions of Ayn Rand continue to amaze me.
Posted by: Annie at May 8, 2008 7:52 AM
Another Vast Right Wing Conspiracy theorist... Just what America Needs.
and to this troll...
Hope the next 9/11 wipes out all you American altoghether.
Get' er' done, Muzzies!
Posted by: Fuck the USA at May 7, 2008 8:02 PM
You prove that all terrorist sympathizer halftards have a 2 digit IQ. What a cowardly waste of flesh and breath you are!
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at May 8, 2008 7:58 AM
The Obamunists have a vision for America that is truly frightening. They must be overcome at the ballot box at all costs.
Posted by: Refuter Of Liberal Vermin at May 8, 2008 10:37 AM
The only thing another 9/11 will do you little mental midget, is ensure that no "muzzie" on earth will be safe. They want to visit Allah, we'll help, 'cause we're good like that.
Furthermore, assuming it happens on the big O's watch, sit back and watch that political party implode violently.
So stir it up, we'll pick up your cowardly little, kid killing carcasses later...assuming the fallout will allow us in.
Posted by: DaveD at May 8, 2008 11:59 AM
I think this bitch should move to LA and challenge Maxine Waters for her district.
Posted by: Anonymous at May 8, 2008 3:55 PM
