Updated: Michelle Obama Takes Center Stage

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Michelle Obama will headline the 2008 Democratic National Convention. In a remarkable bit of dissembling or stupidity, Chris Wallace of Fox News—who is nowhere near the journalist Wallace Senior was—found no particular significance in the event. This is the first time a candidate’s wife will front a convention.

I think this is a matter of considerable portent. It speaks to the position this woman will assume in the White House. It’s a legitimate supposition. But Fox News is now fawning over Obama—probably in fear of being snubbed by the royal couple and their fans who want to see them in action all the time. Wallace, for Fox, simply spun Michelle’s surprising prominence as the campaign’s attempt to entrust her with rehabilitating Barack’s life story and giving it the American patina it lacks. Michelle Obama is so obviously the wrong person to do so.

The Obamas will be welcoming on stage “Barack Obama’s sister Maya Soetero-Ng and Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama’s older brother; [and] Jerry Kellman, mentor and long-time friend of Barack Obama.” A real tribal affair.

How I wish Jeremiah Wright would write a tell-all about The Child.

Update (August 26, 2008): One word for Mrs. Obama’s speech: pure schmaltz: “maudlin sentimentality.” But the Obama Nation was slobbering and spluttering. The “parrot press” too. You can read her remarks in the New York Times.

I have a question about Michelle’s claim that her “story” is the story of an average, working-class American (her family was middle-class):

“And thanks to their faith and their hard work, we both were able to go to college, so I know firsthand from their lives and mine that the American dream endures.”

Mrs. Obama, in all likelihood, was accepted to Ivy League schools based on the robust program of affirmative action that poisons those places. This means that with test scores lower than those of other candidates, likely whites and Asians, she would have gotten a placement; and her betters would have been rejected.

Is this what is meant to share the experience of the majority that dare not speak its name?

The theme the woman kept reciting—changing “the world as it is” to “the world as it should be“: now that was telling. She has the blueprints to the central plan—she and her central planner husband have decided on the shape your world should take under their tutelage.

7 thoughts on “Updated: Michelle Obama Takes Center Stage

  1. Andrew T.

    This election and everything about it is so awful, I just can’t stand it. If I said that the way to escape the imminent dark void was to become a hermit, I’d only be half right — secession is the answer. Unfortunately, Americans are extremely nationalistic, and secession is viewed as a de facto joke, not an option.

  2. Steph

    Hey there!
    Was just reading your blog and thought you might be interested in this early profile of Jerry Kellman (first guy to hire Obama out of college as a community organizer). Interesting that he calls him idealistic but says “the streets of chicago made him practical and realistic.” Kellman’s speaking at the DNC tonight, so I thought you might wanna check it out.
    Link:
    http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/hiring-barack-obama/

    Keep up the great writing!
    Best,
    Steph

  3. Steve Stip

    If the socialists come to power it will be the fault of those who did not correct a dishonest (fractional reserve) banking system when they could. Killer Cain is no better though. Woe is us!

  4. Myron Pauli

    Well, Michelle and her cute kids did their thing last night – nice smile and throwaway inspiring but meaningless rhetoric. We all know Barack Hussein’s biography – we don’t know what sort of President he will be, of course.

    My guess is that he will be cautious like JFK and try to do a few things, mouth inspiring claptrap, and avoid trouble. That could, of course, be better than our Warmongering Crusader McCain. On the other hand, he could be completely inept like Jimmy Carter.

  5. noobama

    What a shame that our Universities allow in lesser qualified students at the expense of those more deserving. Even worse, these lesser qualified candidates frequently waste valuable space by studying pointless majors created for them to do well when they’d otherwise flunk out (such as African American Studies in the case of Michelle Obama).

  6. Andrew T.

    As a rule, avoid any major with “studies” in the name. They’re rubbish.

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