Michelle's Musings

Michelle Obama, 'the closer', was in town yesterday, speaking for an hour to University of Houston students about how wonderful she and her husband are for the country. "When he got out of law school, he could have been a clerk on the Supreme Court or worked with a Fortune 500 company. He could have made millions. Instead he became a constitutional rights scholar with a small civil rights law firm. Why? Because to whom much is given, much is expected." That is a quote from her review in the Houston Chronicle today, a newspaper that has endorsed Obama on their editorial page.

Funny, she doesn't bring up the money she rakes in for her high powered position in the hospital system in Chicago or the six figures she brings home for corporate board memberships. And, Barack's Senatorial salary is considerably higher than the average wage earner's, too. Combined, they are inching toward half a million a year.

She and her husband almost have their student loans paid off, she said. She credits the money he's made off his two best selling books for that accomplishment.

She hit her standard remark, too. "We are facing a deficit of empathy. Some say that is simple or naive. Well let me tell you something. Our greatest challenge is that we have a mutual obligation to one another and we have to understand that. We have lost sight of that because we haven't had leadership that has asked us to sacrifice and compromise for one another."

Let me tell you something, Michelle, my belle. The greatest empathy a citizen can have is to allow fellow citizens the ability to take care of themselves. Barack's big government programs and giveaways, afforded on the backs of middle class workers, or in the lingo of the far left, 'the rich' is socialism. The rich will end up looking like the average $50,000 per year wage earner. Big government socialism brought about the demise of an entire generation or two, best illustrated by the 'victims' of Hurricane Katrina. Leadership is raising people up with more than feel good slogans and challenging them to accept personal responsibility. That responsibility includes getting up every day and getting an education, working at your job, taking care of your own children, all the everyday hard stuff.

And, Michelle? President Bush was the first president to put in place private/public sector partnerships for those willing to serve their communities. Not to mention his father, the elder Bush, was leading the charge of his Thousand Points of Light program. And, Laura Bush doing public service announcements through the years encouraging college students to become teachers and serve in overseas missions. And there's the faith based merges the president has encouraged while far left liberals like yourself and your husband had a fit that the president dared mentioned faith in the Oval Office.

And, no, ending the war in Iraq will not fund the new programs and giveaways. That is being paid for with borrowed money to begin with. There are no unclaimed funds laying around to be passed about.

As a 44 year old woman leading a charmed life, she wants you to think that "it is easy to be led by fear. I say we have a war that we are in now because of fear. Our leadership manipulated that fear. Fear cuts you off from each other, from our family and country. It cuts us off from other cultures and nations. And we pass that on to the next generation."

Well, the leading by fear charge is getting a bit dated. Promoting isolationism, surrendering military options in the face of danger, and acting as though it's all for the children is ignorant. It is the same far left thinking that allowed the build up throughout the 1990's when all was treated with indictments and turning the other cheek. Obama is using Jimma Carter's former Secretary of State as a foreign policy guru. Did you just raise an eyebrow? He recently sent him to Syria on his behalf. How do you think the soldiers in Iraq feel about that? I say feel because Michelle is fond of saying, don't think, just feel, to her audiences.

Don't think. Just chant. And believe.

Oh, yeah. And open your wallet.