I understand how you can interpret language when you're an Obama supporter. You want to put the best face possible on comments they make. Spinning is a full time job. :-)
But while you're doing so, you should also appreciate the fact that people--like me--who haven't much use for the Obamas---are assessing them with a more critical eye. (And it's not racism, thankyou very much.)
I just don't buy your assessment.
If Michelle were talking about pride in people coming together in her husband's campaign, that's what she would have said. She did not any more than John Kerry was talking about President Bush when he dissed the troops in Iraq. That was a real verbal pretzel to defend.
The truth --at least to me---is that the Obamas are not ready for prime time. The fact that Obama gave a well received speech in 2004 is insufficient qualification in my eyes.
The Obamas say, in public, the things they are so used to saying in private, among their elitist cohorts, that they simply do not realize how this kind of talk plays in the public arena.
Michelle Obama strikes me as a bitter woman, which is hard to reconcile with all the advantages and leg-ups she's received.
I'm really sorry [not!] that she had to repay student loans. So what! Scads of people had to repay student loans. I, for one, was grateful for student loan programs to help me through school. Without them, it would have been far more difficult.
I just do not want to live through 4 years of whining and blame shifting from two people who, frankly, need some seasoning and maturing before they're even remotely ready to take on the tasks faced by the CIC. |
