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RUSH: Here is Michelle Obama. This is yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin, at a Barack Obama campaign event, a portion of her remarks.<\/p>\n

MRS. OBAMA: What we\u2019ve learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback, and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I\u2019m really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. I\u2019ve seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic, common issues, and it\u2019s made me proud.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this, folks, is unhinged. I mean, I have had heard some female commentators today, ‘I totally understand what she\u2019s talking about. She\u2019s black; she\u2019s African-American.\u2019 Let\u2019s see, ‘for the first time in my adult lifetime I\u2019m really proud of my country.\u2019 She and her husband are in the upper 1% of wage earners in this country. Where did she go to school? She went to, I think, Harvard, Yale or whatever. They went to private schools. They are millionaires. They live in the suburbs. I don\u2019t think he marched at Selma. I don\u2019t think he got beat upside the head. I don\u2019t think Bull Connor turned the fire hose on him. I don\u2019t think dogs were unleashed on Barack Obama. She, Mrs. Obama did not experience any of the 1950 segregation. To say something like that and to get a complete pass; people acting as though this is something unique and revelatory, that this is some special couple. Did she not feel proud about the Berlin Wall coming down? Has she not felt proud about the way we came together after 9\/11? It is unbelievable to me that — and this goes to the root, I think, of some of the things we discuss here frequently, and that is people taking this country for granted, not having any understanding what it took to get this country where it is. <\/p>\n

Here are two relatively young people, who grew up after a road had been paved for them. They have nothing in the world to be miserable about. He is running for the presidency of the United States. He ran for the Senate and made it. They have nothing in the world to be miserable or unhappy about or embarrassed about when it comes to this country. It is just outrageous for this kind of thing to be stated. The sad thing is it\u2019s going to resonate with a lot of people because over the years many Americans have been told from grade school on up how unfair, how unjust, how racist, how sexist, how bigoted this country is. Look at Oprah Winfrey. Does Oprah not make her proud? Oprah\u2019s success, the movies, the TV show, how can that not make her proud? Oprah is a black woman as is Michelle Obama. By the way, there\u2019s something else I had in the stack yesterday, didn\u2019t have a chance to get to it so I saved it for today, and it has to do with the fact that she said, ‘Only Barack Obama can fix America\u2019s soul. Only Barack Obama can fix America\u2019s broken soul.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, Michelle Malkin had a great reaction to this. Can you imagine if Huckabee or if Mitt Romney or if McCain, or any Republican presidential candidate came out and said, ‘America\u2019s soul is broken, and only Huckabee can fix it, or only McCain can\u2019? There would be an outcry from the separation of church and state crowd. And of course the soul, whether you people want to admit this or not, is a religious concept in many ways and in most ways. So now we\u2019re getting religion mixed into all of this from Barack Obama, and his wife says this is the first time in her life she has been proud of this country. Doesn\u2019t it just grate on you that liberals in general are not proud of their country, period? Doesn\u2019t it grate on you that they\u2019re embarrassed; that they hate the country; that they dislike it, and now she comes out with this kind of comment and all these people sitting around and hoping for whatever, are swooning and fainting? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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