The Ice Queen

Michelle Obama - arguably the person closest to the president - once famously said: “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country“. This was back during the 2008 presidential campaign when it became apparent that her husband actually had a fair chance of becoming POTUS.

America has had several periods of relative prosperity within Michelle‘s lifetime. Her statement seems to suggest that even during the good times she did not like her country very much. I wonder what she thinks today?

Things are pretty bad right now, all of it pretty much the direct result of her husband’s two-year reign. Is she still proud? She hasn’t really said much about it recently - not that we know of, anyway. Is this because she’s no longer proud? Or is it because it would reveal too much for her to say it now?

As I said to a friend recently, success depends upon where you stand. A demolition crew, for instance, would have a different idea of success than a builder would. It is quite possible that both take pride in their work.

It has become clear that Democrats’ view success as the total annihilation of Republicans. They have proven over and over again that it doesn’t concern them a bit if success should come at the expense of the country. When Harry Reid proclaimed that “the war in Iraq is lost”, he did so with a certain bravado. He saw it in terms scoring points for his party, members of which were openly betting that things there would go badly. When he called President Bush "a loser" during a civics discussion with a group of teenagers, he paid no heed to the fact that he was speaking about the man who was duly elected to represent the stars and stripes around the world.

Reid may be excused for his failure to understand that the good of the nation should always take precedence over party. The Obamas’ vision, however, appears to be broader. The president appears to have used the likes of Reid, Biden, etc. for a much larger purpose. He seems bent on diminishing America’s influence on the world stage. He has been doing so consistently, always to America’s detriment, by attacking its economy (and now the military) and fostering divisions in a myriad of ways.

To date, he has applied the term ’enemy’ only to American voters and tax payers. At the same time, he all but refuses to name the Islamic threat. His administration has ordered the censure of various heretofore commonly used terms relating to global terror while introducing new terms that appear to put the Tea Parties, war veterans, and weekend militia groups on an equal footing with terrorists.

This reflects either a failure to properly prioritize, or a deliberate effort to balkanize Americans. If the latter, there can only be one reason.

In the next Congress there will be plenty of heads he can throw snowballs at. It promises to be a bloody mess. I wonder if Michelle gets off on this kind of thing.

http://pkoelliker.blogspot.com/