printIs it the cramped quarters of her private jet? Jet lag? Too many haute couture dress fittings; layers of war paint? Michelle Obama elaborates on the hardships she and the Other O have endured in recent days for the good of the … kids:
“As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days, so many of you in this room have been working for years to bring this bid home. As first lady, as many of you know, I’ve made it a priority to bridge the gap between the White House and communities across D.C. and across the country…I’ve spent much of my first nine months trying to open the doors to the White House to kids who might not otherwise see themselves having access to these institutions, because that’s where I came from – communities like that where kids never dreamed that they could set foot in the White House, let alone live there… And Barack and I made a point of doing the same thing when we lived in Chicago – making the concerns of kids in all sorts of communities our own.”
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The stress must have caused Mrs. O to suffer some hearing loss. Everyone is saying the exact opposite about her gallivanting around the globe with the Fat One for no good at all.
When it comes to Mr. O, time away from the President’s Office is not a bad thing; it means that for a while, he get to do less damage.
I wonder when the Europeans will get sick-and-tired of the Obama dog-and-pony show. I assume they have some pride.
I sure notice a lot of “I”‘s in Michelle’s statement.
“Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
A stranger, and not your own lips.” Proverbs 27:2
I think Europe is already tired of Obama. At the G20 conference he called for a “re-balancing” of the world economy. See, the problem is that those greedy Germans (and Chinese and Japanese) export too much and save too much of their money. This created a “glut” of savings which in turn caused American housing values to go through the roof. It had nothing to do with our central bank or its misguided policies, it was because Germans are too reluctant to go into debt to buy things they don’t need. Needless to say, the president, who is making Bush look like Ebeneezer Scrooge by introducing the phrase “Trillion dollar deficit” into common usage, has no right to lecture anybody for saving too much money.
Where is funding sports under Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution? And where is using “eminent domain” to make money for greedy sports entrepreneurs at taxpayer expense? And how does the Federal Government wind up preventing obesity through sports by funding global events for TV watching sports couch potatoes?