Barack Obama, the missus explains, is Everyman who has ever been put down by The Man. And "understand this" .. Mrs. Obama is here to make sure you feel their pain. Which is really your pain. Because the hardships of a privileged Ivy League couple are "exactly" the same as the travails of miners or service workers or small-business owners: "So the bar has been shifting and moving in this race," she grumbles, "but the irony is, the sad irony is, that's exactly what is happening to most Americans in this country."
Don't tell Michelle about the Great Depression or the Carter Malaise. "Folks are struggling like never before," she seethes.
We know Barack Obama shares a similar world view -- because we've read his memoir and we know his working associates and we know his church and we know his college studies and we know his wife and they are all of a ungrateful, bitter, condescending and anti-American piece. (The word "anger" shows up in Obama's own memoir nearly 100 times, despite a lifetime of privileges and wealth unheard of in most of the world, and even in much of America -- privided to him by loving and sacrificing grandparents whom he's repeatedly trashed in print and on the campaign trail.) So don't tell me that Obama understands what is great about America or that he loves this country the way average Americans do. He doesn't and he's let us know it in every way he can -- and calculated campaign speeches written by others can't change that fact.
And note well -- Barack Obama seems to be as ignorant of American history as his wife.
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