Now,
she is ready to spew her bilious disgust with America on the campaign
trail. A dignified, transcendent first lady? No chance. Michelle is
going to break with a hundred years of tradition and play the role of
attack dog, heaping derision on her husband’s political opponents like
no other first lady before her.
And it’s already begun. Mad Michelle this week popped down to
Davis Island, Fla., to hobnob with the very people her husband despises -
the 1 percent. At a massive mansion on the bay, filled with the
wealthiest of the wealthy, America’s first lady launched into a tirade
about “them” - the Republicans.
“Let’s not forget about what it meant when my husband appointed
two brilliant Supreme Court justices, and for the first time in
history, our daughters - and our sons - watched three women take their
seats on our nation’s highest court. But more importantly, let’s not
forget the impact their decisions will have on our lives for decades to
come - on our privacy and our security, on whether we can speak freely,
worship openly and love whomever we choose. That is what’s at stake
here,” she said to applause.
Yes, Republicans hope to regain the White House so they can
install Supreme Court justices who will trample Americans’ privacy,
ignore the nation’s security, crush free speech and persecute the
religious.
Oh, and they’re rich and racist to boot. “Will we be a country
where opportunity is limited to just the few at the top? Who are we? Or
will we give every child a chance to succeed no matter where they’re
from, or what they look like or how much money their parents have. Who
are we?”
That’s right, rich people (white, of course) certainly don’t
want black people to succeed. They want to squelch success based on what
people look like, how much money they have. “Are we going to let them
succeed?” the first lady yelled. “Nooo!” the rich white people screamed.
Just as her husband’s re-election strategy is inanely
simplistic - blame the Republicans for thwarting his brilliant,
economy-saving policies - so too is the first lady’s. She will go to the
opulent homes of rich people across the country to tell them how rich
people are to blame for America’s woes and guilt them into giving
millions for her husband’s campaign.
And the Princeton graduate will tell supporters they simply
can’t comprehend the significance of what’s occurring today in America.
“It can be hard to see clearly what’s at stake - because these
issues are so complicated, and quite frankly, folks are busy and they’re
tired. We’re raising families and working full-time jobs, and many
helping out in their own communities on top of all that. So many of us
just don’t have the time to follow the news and to sort through all the
back-and-forth, and to figure out how all of this stuff connects to our
daily lives.”
Yes, only Michelle and her husband can truly understand,
although she often tells those uninformed people that when the president
returns from one of his campaign trips, “He says, ‘You won’t believe
what folks are going through.’ ” So maybe she is the only person in
America who understands.
So, America’s first lady will travel the country this election
season to tell her fellow Americans just how bad it is out there
(between lavish vacations, of course). Unlike President Ronald Reagan,
who saw morning in America - that great shining city on a hill -
Michelle will tell all who will listen that Republicans want to poison
the air and water, stifle free speech, oppress the religious. She will
offer not an uplifting vision of what her husband’s America could be but
only a vapid view of what Republicans’ America would be.
That is the America she lives in, and by campaign’s end, it
will be clear that she’s no longer “proud of my country.” Maybe she
never really was.
• Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times. He can be reached at jcurl@washingtontimes.com.
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