I read a terrific column over at Townhall by Dinesh D'Souza, author of Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader, among others. In it, he notes that (for a woman who benefited greatly from affirmative action, as it appears her husband is about to) she is awfully bitter about it all.
She was raised in a two-parent, middle-class family. She applied to one of America's top universities, Princeton, and was admitted. Of this experience, Michelle says on the stump, "All my life I have confronted people who had a certain expectation of me. Every step of the way, there has been people telling me what I couldn't do. When I applied to Princeton, they said: you can't go there, your test scores aren't high enough."
Which is all very moving, except that her test scores weren't high enough.
You would think she would be thankful to this country that provided her the opportunity that she was unable to earn on her own. She parlayed that opportunity, her success in marriage, and her dark skin to a $400,000 job in a community relations, outreach and minority contracting post with her hospital. She should be the happiest woman on Earth. But she clearly is not.
But no. Michelle Obama thinks that her very success is an example of white oppression. By a bizarre twist of logic, she converts "you're not good enough, but we'll take you anyway" into a message of "they said I wasn't good enough, but I proved them wrong."
Ordinarily these psychological peculiarities may be of little interest, except perhaps to a therapist. But Michelle now stands next to a man that may be elected president of the United States. Barack Obama wants everyone to "lay off" his wife. He doesn't seem to realize that this is not a reasonable request concerning a woman who clearly influences him and who stands to have public influence in her own right. Moreover, for months the media has been laying off her precisely because she is his wife. Like Michelle, Obama seems to confuse preferential treatment with ill treatment.
D'Souza notes also that Barack seems genuinely to believe in the post-racial mindset that makes him sound like a breath of fresh air at times when he speaks about race. The possible explanation then for his church associations would seem to lie in his relationship with Michelle. As I have recently posted on, her senior thesis sounds like something out a black separatist handbook or a church that teaches black liberation theology.
We already know that she's never been proud of her country (as an adult) until recently, and how "mean" she thinks this country is. Was it a mean country that allowed her access to a school she had no business ever entering the doors of? Was she not proud of the country as an adult, while she was attending a school she shouldn't have been attending?
As D'Souza notes, the fact that she graduated with honors in her major is irrelevant, since her senior thesis is available online and we can all take a quick read and realize she basically succeeded in blowing smoke up the white, liberal asses of her professors. I certainly know I would not have graduated if I ever put out anything like this in a serious paper:
Essentially Michelle Obama wrote about the problems of being a black woman at an Ivy League university.
Here is a typical passage: "By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desparation of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to their plight."
Alas, the grammar is all wrong here. More than once, the tenses are garbled. People are ignorant "of" the plight of the lower class, not ignorant "to" their plight. And"desparation" should be spelled "desperation." To wreak so much havoc on the English language in one sentence, without conveying anything of substance, is perhaps deserving of a prize. Is this what her professors were thinking when they granted her honors?
Michelle Obama will eventually play a role in this election. I think she explains some of Obama's bad judgments. Then again, Obama has made plenty of those on his own too. I don't think his wife was responsible for his relationships with William Ayres, Tony Rezko or any number of Muslim extremists. But the views she has expressed are very dangerous, when she figures to have more impact on a possible President Obama than any other person.
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