UK Times On Line notes the true significance of Michelle’s naive but candid revelation (here, here) of her lack of pride in her country (as the wife of US Senator); also UK Times On Line finds the Obama patform seriously lacking of substance. Shades of Walter Mondale, with ”messianic” icing!
Obama: is America ready for this dangerous leftwinger?
Listen to the rhetoric of Barack Obama …
But not, apparently, Michelle Obama, wife of the man who is now the putative Democratic candidate for US president, and at this point favourite to succeed to that job. In what might be the most revealing statement made by any political figure so far in this campaign season, Mrs Obama caused a stir this week. She said that the success of her husband Barack’s campaign had marked the first time in her adult life that she had felt pride in her country.
This, even by the astonishingly self-absorbed standards of politicians and their families, is a remarkably narrow view of what makes a country great. And though she later half-heartedly tried to retract the remark it was a statement pregnant with meaning for the presidential election campaign.
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Secondly, and more importantly, I suspect it reveals much about what the Obama family really thinks about the kind of nation that America is.
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While he speaks of the need for Americans to move beyond partisanship (“We are not blue states or red states, but the United States” is a campaign meme), when you cut through the verbiage there is nothing to suggest he believes anything that is seriously at odds with the far Left of his party. If you think about it for a second, it’s not really an accident that he has been endorsed by the likes of Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson.
Though he talks with great eloquence about the future, he sounds for all the world like one of the long line of Democrats from George McGovern to Walter Mondale to Michael Dukakis, who became history by espousing policies and striking a rhetorical pose that was well out of the mainstream of American politics.
Thanks to: Don Surber Foreign press warnings on Obama
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Here in America, conservatives believe that our media is positioning itself to be state-run in an Obama administration. Our print and television media wanted Obama and they embarrassingly, promote him, ignore controversies that would destroy any other candidate and make excuses for poor judgment and inexperience. The media turned Obama into a brand like McDonalds or Coca-Cola and they are determined to make all Americans consume his drivel because it looks good, but isn’t very nutritious.