Say Anything Blog

Michelle Obama addressed the Democrat convention tonight.  Personally, I didn’t think much of what she had to say.  Beautiful stage craft, sure, and the lines she delivered sure sounded nice but that sort of slick delivery of empty platitudes is what we’ve come to expect from the Obamas.  But there was one passage in the speech worth reacting to:

I stand here today at the crosscurrents of that history — knowing that my piece of the American dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me. All of them driven by the same conviction that drove my dad to get up an hour early each day to painstakingly dress himself for work. The same conviction that drives the men and women I’ve met all across this country:

People who work the day shift, kiss their kids goodnight, and head out for the night shift — without disappointment, without regret — that goodnight kiss a reminder of everything they’re working for.

The military families who say grace each night with an empty seat at the table. The servicemen and women who love this country so much, they leave those they love most to defend it.

The young people across America serving our communities — teaching children, cleaning up neighborhoods, caring for the least among us each and every day.

People like Hillary Clinton, who put those 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, so that our daughters — and sons — can dream a little bigger and aim a little higher.

First off, what glass ceiling did Hillary Clinton put cracks in?  She was a first lady.  Big deal.  She was a female Senator, yet plenty of females sat in the Senate before her.  She was a candidate for a nomination to be a Presidential candidate, but she’s hardly the first woman to do that either.

Hillary Clinton is no pioneer.

Second, there was a theme throughout Michelle Obama’s speech about people struggling to get by.  That’s not surprising given that class struggle is a common theme among leftist politicians, but what I’m wondering is why people like Michelle Obama expect middle class and lower class Americans to look up to her husband who is promising to raise taxes on people who make as little as $41,500 a year?  Why should they look up to her husband when he’s going to nearly double the capital gains taxes they pay on their retirement and other investments?

Why should they look up to her husband when he thinks the solution to the high gas prices they pay at the pump is to tax oil companies?  Something that will only result in even more high prices at the gas pump?

It seems to me that working class Americans have little to gain from Barack Obama who will only seek to confiscate more of their hard-earned money to fund initiatives that will bring more government intrusion to their lives.

On a related note, I noticed that Michelle was laying the patriotism on pretty thick during her speech.  A lot of “I love my country” stuff, which would be great if it weren’t so obvious that she was making up for previous gaffes.