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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (250599)5/19/2008 3:02:22 PM
From: Sr K  Read Replies (2) of 793927
 
>>Michelle Obama comes across as an angry victim, despite (or maybe because of?) her own enormously privileged life. <<

Aside from living in the United States, when do you think "her own enormously privileged life" started? When she got into Princeton? Or when she graduated after writing a thesis that did not discard her past but faced it head-on? When she got into Harvard Law School? Or when she did well there? Or when Barack's books brought in enough money to pay off their student loans?

To me "enormously privileged life" would describe women who never worked and knew they never had to because their husband would have that role. It doesn't fit Michelle Obama.

I hear the anger she speaks of or reflects as anger for the plight of others in this country. She is way beyond selfishness.

More than most people, she is doing something about it rather than complaining about how much better we can do.

Rev. Wright did bring up. and Barack in his Philadelphia speech moved the potential discussion forward to reflect, that Blacks and Whites have to a large degree different perspectives on race. That's what Obama refers to as a generational difference, between Wright's generation and his.

He, personally, is beyond that. Michelle before this campaign at least probably was less so. But they both think that if he wins in November and does what he hopes to do in 8 years, some time in the not so distant future there will no longer be a generational difference.

That opportunity and appeal is part of his appeal.
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