Michelle: Children's Lives Will Be "Devastated" Unless Obama Becomes President

"I wish we had time to be divided. I wish we had time to be upset. To be angry. To be disappointed. I wish we did. Because if we had time for that, then things wouldn't be so bad right now. Instead, we're in a place where another four or eight years of the world as it is will devastate the life of some child."

-- Michelle "America is a Downright Mean Country" Obama during a campaign stop for her husband in Denver last Wednesday.


If Barack Obama really wants the GOP to lay off his wife, he'd better start vetting her public statements. He should expect a vigorous response when his wife tells audiences that she had never been really proud of America until her husband started running for President, when she says that America is "just downright mean" and when she affirms that children's lives around the world will be devastated unless her messiah complex husband is elected President of the United States of America.

Allow me to direct the Obamafraud and his mindless acolytes to an eye-opening May 2008 op-ed by Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby titled "Michele Obama is fair game." In it, Mr. Jacoby says:

But unless Obama is prepared to emulate [Andrew] Jackson - Old Hickory defended his wife's honor by fighting duels, in one of which he killed a man - he stands no chance of putting his wife's remarks off-limits to criticism. As long as he keeps sending her around the country to campaign on his behalf, everything she says is - and should be - fair game.

And unfortunately for Obama and his allegedly sunny politics of hope, what Mrs. Obama seems to say with grim regularity is that America is a scary, bleak, and hopeless place.

Mr. Jacoby then proceeds to illustrate his point with several quotes from Michelle Obama's speeches during the primary campaign season. Here are a couple of nuggets:

"Life for regular folks has gotten worse over the course of my lifetime, through Republican and Democratic administrations. It hasn't gotten much better."

"America is "just downright mean" and "guided by fear . . . We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day."

Jacoby concludes,

Michelle Obama is undeniably smart, driven, outspoken, and charismatic. She is also relentlessly negative about life in these United States. True, she is not the one running for president. But she is Barack Obama's closest confidante and adviser; if he is elected, her influence will be considerable. That is why her words matter. And why, whether her husband likes it or not, Michelle Obama is a legitimate issue in this campaign.

The Obamessiah really expects that people listen to the anti-American drivel of his bitter half (hat tip to Michelle Malkin) in silence. Fat chance.