I guess this is that “other” America we keep hearing about
on March 5th, 2008 at 8:05 pmOkay, I get the goal here: paint America in the dimmest color possible in order to emphasize the change you can bring to an elected office. Everyone candidate does it, but this is way over the top.
After reading this excerpt, I felt the sudden urge to check my calender to make sure it wasn’t October 29, 1929 (The beginning of The Great Depression).
“But our economy is doing poorly. In fact, we are close to a recession.”
True, BUT her description of America is very VERY inaccurate…STARTING WITH HER OWN LIFE!!
“Obama (Michelle) begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-four!”
From these bleak generalities, Obama moves into specific complaints. Used to be, she will say, that you could count on a decent education in the neighborhood. But now there are all these charter schools and magnet schools that you have to “finagle” to get into. (Obama herself attended a magnet school, but never mind.) Health care is out of reach (“Let me tell you, don’t get sick in America”), pensions are disappearing, college is too expensive, and even if you can figure out a way to go to college you won’t be able to recoup the cost of the degree in many of the professions for which you needed it in the first place. “You’re looking at a young couple that’s just a few years out of debt,” Obama said. “See, because, we went to those good schools, and we didn’t have trust funds. I’m still waiting for Barack’s trust fund. Especially after I heard that Dick Cheney was s’posed to be a relative or something. Give us something here!” (Michelle Obama in the upcoming New Yorker article The Other Obama)
The entire article is here. It’s pretty long, but read the whole thing.
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