Obama’s biggest general election liability: His bitter half
With Barack Obama on the verge of sewing up the Democrat presidential nomination, my syndicated column this morning looks at his biggest general election liability: The Missus. I’ll be on Fox and Friends this morning at around 7:15am to talk primary results.
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Obama’s bitter half
Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
Are you ready for hope and change? Barack Obama better hope his bitter half has a change of attitude if she expects to assume the title of first lady in November. She’s been likened to John F. Kennedy’s wife, what with her chic suits and pearls and perfectly coiffed helmet hair. But when she opens her mouth, Michelle O. is less Jackie O. and more Wendy W. — as in Wendy Whiner, the constantly kvetching Saturday Night Live character from the early 1980s.
When last our worldviews collided, back in February, the other Michelle was expounding on her lack of pride in America. I gave her myriad reasons to cheer up — from America’s role in the fall of communism and our unparalleled generosity to our nation’s superior economic system, cultural resilience, entrepreneurial spirit, and ingenuity. But since then, Mrs. Obama has dug in her $500 Jimmy Choo heels and solidified her role in the 2008 presidential campaign as Queen of the Grievance-Mongers.
In one of her few (unintentionally) funny moments during a recent sit-down with comedian Stephen Colbert, Mrs. Obama claimed, “Barack and I tend to look at the positives.” That’s a side-splitter. As National Review’s Yuval Levin put it, Michelle Obama is “America’s unhappiest millionaire.” And she has the audacity to extrapolate her misery and her husband’s alleged victimization to the “vast majority of Americans.”
In South Carolina, she called America “just downright mean” and bemoaned “a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day.” And in case you hadn’t heard enough of her carping about how hard it is for a seven-figure-earning family to pay for ballet lessons and piano lessons and pay off college loans, Mrs. Oh-Woe-Is-Me was at it again on the campaign trail in Indiana and North Carolina before Tuesday’s primary.
On the stump, she warmed up (or rather, berated) supporters by complaining about how her husband is an underdog even after he keeps winning primary and caucus after primary and caucus. With a scowl etched on her face, she bellyached that “the bar is constantly changing for this man.” Call the waambulance, stat.
Barack Obama, the missus explains, is Everyman who has ever been put down by The Man. And “understand this” (a condescending verbal tic shared by both Obamas): Mrs. Obama is here to make sure you feel their pain. Which is really your pain. Because the hardships of a privileged Ivy League couple are “exactly” the same as the travails of miners or service workers or small-business owners: “So the bar has been shifting and moving in this race,” she grumbles, “but the irony is, the sad irony is, that’s exactly what is happening to most Americans in this country.”
Don’t tell Michelle about the Great Depression or the Carter Malaise. “Folks are struggling like never before,” she seethes.
Well, yes, gas prices are up. Some food prices are rising. And borrowers who bought more housing than they could afford are underwater. But “struggling like never before”? Didn’t they teach her about Hoovervilles and stagflation?
In Mrs. Obama, the fear-mongering pot meets the angst-stirring kettle: “Fear,” she froths, “creates this veil of impossibility and it is hanging over all of our heads.”
But what Mrs. Obama lacks in pride for her country and its promise she more than makes up for with bottomless pride for her husband. Her standard campaign speeches include at least a dozen references to how “proud” she is of him. And of herself. And of everyone who has overcome The Man and pierced the “veil of impossibility” to get to the polls and vote Obama. An online MSNBC report on a joint appearance by the Obamas on The Today Show in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright debacle included this tellingly narcissistic passage:
[Mrs. Obama]: “‘I’m so proud of how he has maintained his dignity, his cool, his honor.’
“Obama gently tried to interrupt, admitting to being embarrassed by the praise.
“‘But I am proud of you,” she said.
“I know,” he replied.
We all know. So get over yourself already, haughty spirit. Pride doesn’t photograph well. And bitterness leaves frown lines. Which means Botox bills. Which “struggling folks” like you and your husband simply cannot afford.
Try smiling for once. It’s cheaper.
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libocrat,
I missed that completely. Absolutely that’s what it is about. I think I lost my train of thought in my post. I hope I answered FirstSkirt’s question.
FirstSkirt, most liberals want desperately to soothe their consciences by voting for a black man. Obama has ZERO track record. Obama has ZERO legislative successes. Obama has ZERO experience as any sort of executive.
It’s clear as day to me. Blacks “relate” to him, like you and I would relate to someone from our home town or clan. (with a C). I have a couple black friends who want Obama. One is a Berkeley grad U-CAL 1981. He is professional and a great guy. He used to be a Rodhamite. Now he cannont stand Rodham. I understand why. She stands in the way of “his guy”. The other black buddy is a high school grad who grew up in the hood of a major city. He has NO CLUE
FirstSkirt: I totally agree with you. It is very frustrating. I remember when my friends were voting for Doug Wilder for governor of VA. Pro abortion, etc. I just couldn’t get how, as Christians, they could vote for such a person. They really do have blinders on when it comes to race. Yet, in my experience, the most prejudiced people I ever met in my life were black people in Washington, DC. And I’m not kidding. I could tell you stories. One of the worst things was during the Million Man March when thousands were in the city and I’m riding home on the Metro and a group get on the train and start yelling at all us “whities” and calling us “f***ing white people” and lots of other horrible things. Everyone on the train had their head buried in a book or newspaper trying to ignore them. It made me so angry. But the creepiest thing about this, is these guys said they were from Chicago. Hmmm, I now wonder what church they went to.
When was the last time, the Obama’s visited Iraq or Afghanistan, to thank our troops for their Courage, Bravery, and Sacrifice?
When was the last time, the Obama’s stood before ANY cheering group of military, Veterans OR Active Duty?
I thought the Leadership position of the Commander-in-Chief would require more than showing your backside to our Soldiers.
But, I could be wrong
Every cohort of the American electorate has an extensive clueless faction being led by it’s collective nose to vote.
American presidential elections are some of the most studied phenomena ever.
Peculiar. Ridiculous. Stellar. You name it, it’s in there.
And it is the People who make it so.
Hang onto your butts: we are in for a wild ride.
I’m voting for the candidate that understands American power and influence in the world.
No evidence from Pig in a Pant Suit or H.O. that they do.
Personally, I think McCain has a clue about it. Military service tends to school one on the subject.
However, I think McCain is quite vulnerable *personally* to MSM attacks during the general election.
Now, where is my shark?
Thank you 30 pcs of silver for that.
I attended what was considered by many to be a “Black” church for a number of years. State Senator Maurice Washington in Reno is also an ordained Pastor. The strange part to me was how everyone except the vast majorities of the attendees declared it to be as such. To us, it was just a good, wholesome, solid experience. Race never came into the pulpit or out of it. We are all brothers (and sisters) if we go back far enough and the Bible clearly shows us that none of us is any better than the rest.
Christianity is about accepting the fact that nobody can attain Salvation without the sacrifice paid by Christ and not about what color our skin is or how much pigmentation it contains.
You serve your alma mater well.
I think if Obama wins the Pres (this is my worst case scenario of course!) I really believe he will do a horrible job.
But - will anyone be brave enough to acknowledge it? Or will the media look away at every screw up he makes because he is black (I know, only 1/2 black 1/2 white but for some reason the media forgets about his white side). Will anyone have the guts to say the guy stinks?
Nope - they’ll find a way to still blame it all on BUSH.
Thus, I hope McCain gets in because I really think Obama winning the presidency will do a lot of destruction to race relations.
Hmm…maybe McCain could take care of that by having Condi Rice as his VP running mate? Oh…what the heck would that do to the Nov elections??
Still love reading your columns, MM. Whether or not I agree with them is irrelevant. Good stuff. Though I’m going to do a Nexis search on “waambulance” to see if Will or Buckley ever used the term. Maybe it was Krauthammer where I read it once before.
It will be interesting to see how the US military as a whole votes.
Tell em, Mookie.
From the Air Force Times:
Military Donations to Anti-War Candidates Rise
Air Force Times:
A Socialist Propaganda Rag, available free on military bases.
makes good toilet-paper
Who is Obama anyway?
and what’s up with his wife?
Please fill me in and I’ll even listen to a condensed version if you know what the heck your talkin about. lol.
What do you know about this guy, really.
and don’t give me the Hope and Change BS.
Not only has Obummer Not gone to Iraq or Afghanistan, FRANKSALTEREGO, he or his complaining wife have never thanked any of our men and women fighting over there, nor the ones still stationed here, for their service and sacrifice. They never will because they’re against defending this country and it’s people. The troops won’t see this despicable couple until they disembark the planes at the airport, maybe. If they show any kind of appreication to our military men and women, they’ll be run out of town on a rail. Their anti-war stance is one of the strongest points that have them where they are in the race today.
We know that he sat through racist rants for 20 years and didn’t notice.
Then he threw his Granny, and his Nutty Uncle Jeremiah under the bus.
His Ivy League x 2 wife also didn’t notice the hate are race baiting from the pulpit. You would think that one of these 2 geniuses would have noticed.
He’s been to Iraq.
But facts are facts, aren’t they? Regardless of what paper prints them?
Yep. They want us to DIE!!! I’m glad you figured it out. Just in a nick of a time, too.
JLP #129 - I think I saw that - that was where she said that he could be killed just by going to a gas station - Well so what so could everyone else. That’s what turned me off to hre int he first place.
I stand corrected, MOOKIE. Thank you.
Yes, facts are true no matter who prints them.
Obama is not qualified to be President.
Fact.
The Constitution sets out only a couple of qualifications for President. I didn’t realize Obama was deficient there. Thank you for letting me know.
Scenario: President Obama’s first briefing by the Joint Chiefs after taking office.
How soon before H.O. verifies his lack of depth, knowledge, skill, gonadal fortitude, and strategic vision to guide his review of the information brokered by the Defense establishment to the Executive Branch?
Then what?
Who is this sychophant going to appoint as SECDEF?
Who will be his Treasury Secretary and how will that person keep the cash flow going to stay in this fight?
Does Obama understand war fighting?
Can Obama relate to a regular soldier?
An elite one?
A hundred bucks says Wes Clark.
And if I recall correctly, he distinguished himself by being the only president to do so without having published in it himself, and having presided over the least cited editions.
According to the Boston Globe (1/28/07):
Sounds a bit more like a popularity contest, does it not? Or that he was best in sucking up.
He was also elected when there was considerable strife on the Harvard campus about minority faculty and other positions.
Dare we say that he was in the right place at the right time (like his senatorial election-by-default)?
Really. How hard did he work to become senator? You know the story. Senator by default. Notable achievements in the Senate? No. Noteworthy accomplishments outside government, like precedent setting lawyerly performances? No.
Did he get into Harvard by Affirmative Action, or his grades? Most people that get into Harvard have high grades by default, so how did he get past his peers to be admitted to Harvard? I am just interested for future reference.
And, really, lgm, set the time machine for 2008, not 2000 or 2004. Read my lips: BUSH ISN’T RUNNING.
And everything BrianNY said in #182!
Personally, I believe that every presidential contender should cut his/her teeth by being a governor of a state, which is really a small version of the federal government.
None of the current candidates have really presidential qualifications, but of the bunch, I would be forced to go with McCain.
On May 7th, 2008 at 5:04 pm, Mookie said:
Who is this sychophant going to appoint as SECDEF?
A hundred bucks says Wes Clark.
full disclosure: i plagiarized the below graph from a poster on another blog….
On August 27, 1994, Clark, then director of strategy, plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, went to Banja Luka - and met with Ratko Mladic, the bloodstained military leader of the Bosnian Serbs. (My note: everybody apparently forgets that before Serbia’s the aggression in Bosnia the same Ratko Mladic was military commander of the Serbian army (”Yugoslav Peoples Army”) in Croatia and conducted large scale massacres of Croatian civillians there, especially in the ethnically “cleansed of Croatian population “Krajina”, another Serb-proclaimed “republic”). The State Departement had advised against the meeting, on account of Mladic’s well-documented war crimes in Gorazde, Srebrenica and Sarajevo. Still, Clark and Mladic had a jolly time. Mladic gave Clark some plum brandy and a pistol with a Cyrillic inscription, and the two merrily swapped military hats. What do you do with a man with that kind of moral cluelessness? Promote him.
Ya know, if you look at all their photos I don’t think even he likes her…
jus sayin
Bigterd-fan said:
{{The Constitution sets out only a couple of qualifications for President. I didn’t realize Obama was deficient there. Thank you for letting me know.}}
Appears you are as vaccuous as Obama.
Can we put some SERIOUS money on this one? I guess you have to pick the conversion date. I’m willing to wait the 8 yrs of his presidency if necessary. I’ll send my email once the election is over.
Nice spelling, champ. Why don’t you tell me what qualifications he’s missing, seeing as how you said it’s a “fact” and all. As I said, I’m voting for McCain, but I don’t feel so threatened, so insecure that I need to make up stuff about Obama to do so.
Fat Jolly Penguin said (#197):
Neither is Michelle Obama. I will stop mentioning Republicans not running for office if this blog stops dedicating most of it’s thread space to people who know Obama but are not running for office. That includes his wife, his former preacher, and some guy who may have once hosted a fundraiser for him.
This blog is attracted to dirt (being a euphemism for that dirt like substance that attracts flies and conservative bloggers). The fact that you don’t cover Obama himself tells me that you think Obama himself is pretty clean.
Well lgm, re; 232…
If Hillary was the “co-president” would not Michelle have the same errr, title?
And your dirt comment is offensive.
lgm said:
Are you writing this stuff from a rubber room at the state psychiatric center? If I didn’t know better I’d say you’re a graduate of Bard.
- lgm
I’m assuming you mean the terrorist who helped him get into politics in the first place, right?
Yeah, that’s not worthy of mention./sarc off
brooklyn red
Ahhh it’s the Koz Kool aid…besides if you don’t feed the troll, it will starve.
“These people are part of who I am.”
Barack Oblahma 08
MNUSMCDavid, uhhh Sir no Sir, this is America & trolls are a protected class.
Unfortunately non endangered, but protected all the same.
Condi Rice?
Let’s suppose Timothy McVeigh got off on a technicality and had a fundraiser for McCain. Would he simply be “some guy” or would he be a bomb-wielding terrorist? Ayers is a bomb-wielding terrorist, and Obama’s association with him says much to his judgement and (lack of) readiness to be President. I know that means nothing to True Believers…
AlohaGuy #240… Nice, errr I mean well done.
Are y’all trying to tell me that Obama is personal friends with a TERRORIST?
An unabashed, unapologetic, TERRORIST?
Libs?
You have some splaining to do.
uh-huh
Bill O’Rielly has spent more time with the troops….
…hey wait…Now, THERE’S an idea.
Frank, he’s been to Bill Ayers house.
An unabashed, unapologetic, TERRORIST?
I am not a lawyer, but I don’t believe there is a statute of limitations on … TREASON. (OK I will just say it once this time)
Brooklyn are you questioning Bill Ayers Patriotism?
Neither of the Obamas seem terribly bright to me. I used to try to defend GWB against the rants of BDS acquaintances by saying that you can’t make it to the highest office in the land unless you have some semblance of intellect… but Barrack Obama may make me eat crow. Take away the cue cards and he’s at least as lacking in eloquence as President Bush has been on occasion when speaking in public. The big difference (and big deal) is, George Bush has generally had good intentions and exhibited a lot of patriotism and belief in America; Obama is so blatantly Marxist that it astounds me so many people are so enthusiastically willing to put him in the driver’s seat of the USA. I’m beginning to feel a strange sort of empathy for the people who suffer from BDS. I think I may be coming down with a touch of BHODS, and we’re still a long way off from the generals.
DavidHughes, I’ve been saying it for several years. Liberals are, by and large Marxist. They deny it, just as they don’t acknowledge being liberal. They are “PROGRESSIVE”.
Puppycock.
Liberals don’t give a rats-azz about the America that they don’t control.
In fact, like the jealous jilted husband, they would commit suicide taking America down into the gutter with them.
They hate anyone and anything that has morality and thrives on Capitalism.
Simply put, they cannot compete.
Now, now, is any of this really any good for the children?
The Today Show
[Mrs. Obama]: “‘I’m so proud of how he has maintained his dignity, his cool, his honor.’
“Obama gently tried to interrupt, admitting to being embarrassed by the praise.
“‘But I am proud of you,” she said.
“I know,” he replied.
They then both laughed like Beavis & Butthead. Cracked me up.
With friends like Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, and Bernadine Dohrn, Michelle Obama should be so very proud of her husband Jesus.
Michelle…your story was a surgical strike…like Botox to the forehead of a Hollywood celeb or John Kerry for that matter.
Do you mean O’Reilly as president? Great idea. Falafels for everyone!
Dookie, O’Reilly supports the troops.
Obama supports Bill Ayers.
How? Did you forget to take your meds again libocrat?
Don’t be silly Other Side.
Friends support each other. Don’t they?
You libs do have friends don’t you?
jgm:
I just read this about your boy:
But Obama quickly got another reputation. “He was always in the bathroom for the really tough votes. It was not courageous.”
Undrsiege, maybe Jesus Obama has a bladder control problem, or maybe he needed to go have a “smoke”.
I can see it now.
“Hi this is President Jesus Obama, I can’t get to the RED PHONE right now, I’m going potty. If you’d like to leave a message please do so…..BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
libocrat,
Define “friends”. I hardly think Ayers qualifies a Obama’s friend. And are you equating supporting U.S. troops with supporting friends?
This is a really great article from the UK I hope Michelle will permit it; I think it’s not so off topic.
Am I the only one who sees a mommy child relationship here? I’m so proud that you have done what I told you to and look how good you turned out, sheesh. Generally mothers choose the family church and im sure it’s the case here which is telling but Barack goes much further than that. It looks as if she has picked his friends too its really sad to see a male deconstructed in this way. Does she sit at the head of the table and carve the turkey on angstgiving? Does Barack have to sit with the children? This woman rode her brothers scholar athlete coat tails to Princeton she wasn’t smart enough to get there on her own and she has never forgotten that fact. Shes bitter, angry and people are going to pay for her bitterness and anger. People that are given things they don’t deserve are always ingrates.
TheOtherSide said:
Ayers and O’bama operate within the same tight, left-wing circle in Chicago. It doesn’t matter if they know each other or not.
Undrseige, I’m just toying with Other Side. Can you imagine being so big a moron that you’d actually engage someone in a conversation about Ayers and Obama, and expect to make Obama come out looking good.
I’m just letting Other Side make the typical ass of himself.
Ayers and Obama are friends. Obama’s own campaign has said as much.
Obama is friends and has gone to the home of, and has had a fund raiser hosted by, and has taken campaign money from…..AN ADMITTED DOMESTIC TERRORIST.
Keep the conversation engaged Other Side, you are too dumb to stop.
Undrsiege, I’d also like to note that Other Side tried the typical lib rhetorical dodge. Frame a moronic question in your liberal way, and you can turn the tide. It doesn’t work.
libocrat’s playbook,
Don’t answer a question from a lib. Check.
Call him names instead. Check.
Other Side, why don’t you go report me to Michelle for being mean to you.
Other Sides playbook. Whimper like a baby.
Butt sore?
TheOtherSide said:
Name calling is life; get used to it numbskull.
He’s a phoney politician. What was that quote from one of his books? “Greedy white folks run a country in need”. If not an exact quote, very close.
MO said “SHTRUGGLING” not “STRUGGLING.”
Remember the demeaning story she told about Barack’s stinky smelly self in the morning?
She got into Princeton as a legacy. Her brother, Craig Robinson, was one of the best ever hoopsters at Princeton. Despite her self-admitted, mediocre academic record, Michelle rode his coattails into the Ivy League.
Condi Rice is an outspoken black woman. MO is a self-pitying whiner. Big difference, Kovacs.
Outspoken is one thing women close to me always speak their mind its one of my requirements. Doesn’t mean I will agree though. Obnoxious is quite another a definite turn off that no self respecting man would put up with. I wont bother explaining the man woman healthy relationship thing to you libs that would be a waste of time. But in short look at conservative couples, they have real mutual respect for each other. Look at lib couples, they have a politically correct version of mutual respect for each other. Lib females are dicktators that’s why almost all lib males have a mistress or two or a favorite hooker. I suppose it all depends on where they register on the dork meter.
I was initially informed by the MSM that that Michelle Obama was accomplished. In fact I was very proud of her. Since then I have learned that not only is she an affirmative action carry, but that her salary more than doubled since her husband became Senator. Now we must bow to this anti-American witch? She is a leech, and a vampire at that.
Two words: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
No terror attacks on USA soil since 9-11.
And next time, don’t nominate someone like Kerry. You gave independents little choice in that one, lgm.
I won’t be. That’s what America get for sitting at home watching American idol instead of calling and writing to Washington.
Seriously, I am so sick and tired of the MIDDLE CLASS from both parties sitting around whining when all they have to do is sit down, turn off the TV and talk to their representative.
Obama is elite because
a) He’s half-black, therefore he’s perceived as Black and people feel sorry for him because of it (give him money and a good job) and many of the whites on the left who are voting for will do so just to show how tolerant they are.
b) He thinks that people like me stick to my guns and my religion because of immigrant labor. The reason why we have immigration is because liberals are too damn busy drinking beer, sleeping around and doing drugs to sit down what used to be normal: Have a good, old-fashioned American family.
Bush served his country. McCain served his country. Hilary and Obama were rubbing noses with the elite because her gender and his race gave them an extra advantage because people felt guilty about being white men.
Whoever said Americans were bitter has certainly never read this blog.
On May 8th, 2008 at 6:50 am, derel3433 said:
Whoever said Americans were bitter has certainly never read
this blogDaily KOS, HuffPo, anything from the MSM or other liberal websites, Wright’s church homepage, and so many others.There, fixed it for you.
Straight_Talk_Luigi said:
Kerry served his country, as did Gore. Both were shot at.
Bush took flying lessons in Texas and went awol as he pleased. The only shots he took were from a bottle.
More BDS from lgm
Bush served his country in the Texas ANG and never went AWOL.
Kerry committed treason by meeting with the North Vietnamese leaders in Paris, and betrayed his fellow soldiers in the Winter Soldier communist propaganda hearings.
You obviously are ignorant of how the National Guard and Reserve training works. Stick with your expertise, “Dynamics of Film Studies as seen by a liberal moron university hire.”
lgm ranted:
Kerry also took a Purple Heart for getting a scratch that was covered up with a band-aid. What kind of filthy scumbag takes a Purple Heart for that?
As Rusty can attest to, living in DC and having lived close to there and visited it many times…
Anyone who lives in DC has a solid chance of getting shot at…and i’ve had drinks in the city before as well. Do I get a purple heart for being in what equates to a warzone, AS WELL as being drunk at the time when the bullets were flying? LOL
by the way, your buddy Al Gore was ok with the premise of freedom before now…
Gore said in 1988 that his experience in Vietnam:
That quote can be found at his wiki entry.
Was he for war before he was against it?
Just saying.
lgm, you just simply amaze me with your “if its republican, it has to be evil, but if its democrat, its awesome” mentality. And i’ll keep asking you to denouce wrong where you see it, REGARDLESS of where it comes from. And you’ll continue to ignore it because I don’t believe you are capable of honest discourse.
Prove me wrong.
I’d be bitter too if I went to Princeton and Harvard Law, had a big paying job and ballet and piano lessons for my children. sarc off
Underseige, there is a Major I know who took a Purple Heart for getting egg shells in one of his eyes. The medic took it out right away and said it would have come out in 5 minutes by tears but he still got the Purple Heart. John F Kerry isn’t alone on this one.
On May 8th, 2008 at 8:05 am, lgm said:
The funny thing is, both sets of stories were wrong, but Bush released all of his documents, while Kerry promised to, yet never really did.
So you tell tales about Bush in the face of evidence to the contrary, while you believe Kerry as he continues to hide evidence of his “achievements” in the field.
What are you going to do when Bush is gone? Sit and mumble “It’s Bush’s fault” as you drool onto yourself?
Sorry. As if you couldn’t figure it out, the above was posted by lgm (#280), not Luigi. My cut and paste operation failed me.