Michelle Obama’s Priorities
By Truthteller on September 13, 2008 at 10:00 AM in 9/11, Barack Obama, John McCain, Michelle Obama, Ohio, Pandering, Patriotism, Race, Race Card, Racism, Religion, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
“Cindy McCain, John McCain and Barack Obama pay their respects” is the caption of this Maisel/News photograph reproduced in an article that refers to the Presidential candidates’ visit to Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan on 11 SEPT 2008 as “an extraordinary show of unity 54 days from the election.”
Notice Michelle Obama was conspicuously absent from this event. Michelle Obama is not one to engage in “extraordinary shows of unity,” I guess. Besides, Michelle has priorities. But those priorities are not those related by the Chicago Tribune‘s “The Swamp.” I quote:
Michelle Obama, the Democratic nominee’s wife, remained at home in Chicago, where her two daughters are going through the first week of school.
No, her priorities entail campaigning for her husband at religious conferences in Cincinnati, Ohio. While the McCains are now famously subscribing to the dictum “country first,” Michelle Obama continues to place her husband’s political ambitions above all else. The Toledo Blade explains the situation quite well in an article published on 11 SEPT 2008. I quote:
CINCINNATI – “I come here today as a Christian,” Michelle Obama said yesterday to a standing ovation at a convention of mostly black Baptists. She appealed not only for their prayers but for their votes for her husband.
“This election is going to change the world,” she said. “This election will determine the course of an entire generation. Just think about that.
“I know that no one here wants to look back and think, ‘Wouldn’t that have been great?’” she said. “I don’t want to think about what might have been. I want to look back and think, ‘We did it. We really did it, and we did it together.”’
The nonprofit National Baptist Convention USA Inc. is not permitted to endorse a candidate, but there was no doubt that the crowd of about 4,700 watching her speech in the convention center ballroom and in an overflow room receiving a video feed was firmly behind Sen. Barack Obama.
While spectators viewed Cindy McCain, John McCain and Barack Obama commemorating the lives lost during the tragic day that was September 11, 2001, on their television screens, the eyes of readers of the printed media in Ohio scanned a report on Michelle Obama’s crass and debased identity politics at a largely African-American religious conference in Cincinnati, Ohio. Did the aspiring First Lady leave the children at home, or did she decide that they can endure that particular day of their first week of school without her?
The precedence of blurring the distinction between Church and State in the name of racial and religious divisiveness and political power over one’s love of country is the lesson admirers of Michelle Obama learned on 11 SEPT 2008. But then again, admirers of Michelle Obama seem to believe it is perfectly acceptable for an aspiring First Lady to drag the children who ostensibly kept her from visiting Ground Zero into a God Damn America church wherein the following is the prevailing interpretation of September 11, 2001:
I am sure Obama partisans are not batting their eyes. They certainly did not when Michelle Obama proclaimed her lack of love of country twice when campaigning for her husband in Wisconsin.
And they certainly did not blink when the New Yorker revealed that Michelle Obama invoked Reverend Wright’s name in order to build ties of solidarity with African-American Christians in South Carolina before that state’s racially and religiously divisive primary. I quote:
Earlier on the day that Obama visited the nursery school, she addressed a congregation at the Pee Dee Union Baptist Church, in Cheraw, a hamlet of about six thousand known as “The Prettiest Town in Dixie.” The church’s makeshift gravel parking lot, next to the Pee Dee Ice and Fuel Company and bounded by train tracks, was full. After an invocation by the Reverend Jerry Corbett and an introduction by the mayor of Cheraw, Obama came to the pulpit. “You all got up bright and early just for me?” she asked the mostly elderly, almost all-black crowd. “Yes!” they roared. Obama continued, “On behalf of my church home and my pastor, Reverend Wright, I bring greetings.”
She was a Reverend Wright, “God Damn America” Christian in January, a “Christian” on 10 SEPT 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a liar when questioned by the media on 11 SEPT 2008 about her absence from the ceremonies that took place at Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan. Michelle Obama has priorities, but these priorities will not appeal to the grand majority of honest Americans who love their country in times good and bad. No wonder why her husband’s lead is eroding: when voters are asked to compare Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama, they see a Republican who always puts her “country first” and a mendacious Democrat whose patriotism is questionable. To these voters it is a question of Michelle Obama’s utterly warped priorities on a day when all aspiring public figures should at least try to feign sentiments of unity in the name of one’s unassailable love of country.




















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