Michelle Obama greatest quotes http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/opinion/25kristol.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my
country. And not just because Barack has done well, but
because I think people are hungry for change.”
Michelle Obama’s adult life goes back to the mid-1980s.
Can it really be the case that nothing the U.S. achieved
since then has made her proud? Apparently. For, as she
said later in the same appearance: “Life for regular folks
has gotten worse over the course of my lifetime, through
Republican and Democratic administrations. It hasn’t
gotten much better.”
Now in almost every empirical respect, American lives have
in fact gotten better over the last quarter-century. ".... ...."But that clearly isn’t what she was talking about. For as
she had argued in the Wisconsin speech, America’s illness
goes far beyond a flawed political process: “Barack knows
that at some level there’s a hole in our souls.” This was a
variation of language she had used earlier on the
campaign trail: “Barack Obama is the only person in this
race who understands that, that before we can work on
the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are
broken in this nation.”
But they can be repaired. Indeed, she had said a couple of
weeks before, in Los Angeles: “Barack Obama ... is going
to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put
down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation,
that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push
yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will
never allow you to go back to your lives as usual,uninvolved, uninformed.”
So we don’t have to work to improve our souls. Our
broken souls can be fixed — by our voting for Barack
Obama. We don’t have to fight or sacrifice to help our
country. Our uninvolved and uninformed lives can be
changed — by our choosing Barack Obama. America can
become a nation to be proud of — by letting ourselves be
led by Barack Obama. " RRD: This is a personality cult: “Barack Obama ... is going
to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put
down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation,
that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push
yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will
never allow you to go back to your lives as usual,uninvolved, uninformed.” “Barack knows
that at some level there’s a hole in our souls.” This was a
variation of language she had used earlier on the
campaign trail: “Barack Obama is the only person in this
race who understands that, that before we can work on
the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are
broken in this nation.”
“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of my
country. And not just because Barack has done well, but
because I think people are hungry for change.”
Michelle Obama’s adult life goes back to the mid-1980s.
Can it really be the case that nothing the U.S. achieved
since then has made her proud? Apparently. For, as she
said later in the same appearance: “Life for regular folks
has gotten worse over the course of my lifetime, through
Republican and Democratic administrations. It hasn’t
gotten much better.”
Now in almost every empirical respect, American lives have
in fact gotten better over the last quarter-century. ".... ...."But that clearly isn’t what she was talking about. For as
she had argued in the Wisconsin speech, America’s illness
goes far beyond a flawed political process: “Barack knows
that at some level there’s a hole in our souls.” This was a
variation of language she had used earlier on the
campaign trail: “Barack Obama is the only person in this
race who understands that, that before we can work on
the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are
broken in this nation.”
But they can be repaired. Indeed, she had said a couple of
weeks before, in Los Angeles: “Barack Obama ... is going
to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put
down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation,
that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push
yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will
never allow you to go back to your lives as usual,uninvolved, uninformed.”
So we don’t have to work to improve our souls. Our
broken souls can be fixed — by our voting for Barack
Obama. We don’t have to fight or sacrifice to help our
country. Our uninvolved and uninformed lives can be
changed — by our choosing Barack Obama. America can
become a nation to be proud of — by letting ourselves be
led by Barack Obama. " RRD: This is a personality cult: “Barack Obama ... is going
to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put
down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation,
that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push
yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will
never allow you to go back to your lives as usual,uninvolved, uninformed.” “Barack knows
that at some level there’s a hole in our souls.” This was a
variation of language she had used earlier on the
campaign trail: “Barack Obama is the only person in this
race who understands that, that before we can work on
the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are
broken in this nation.”
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