I DID NOT THINK THE GIRL COULD BE SO CRUEL. Suddenly, Steely Dan references are everywhere. I think it all started with this Bad Sneakers post.
UPDATE: Ouch: “I would have thought that two Ivy-League degrees, a joint income of about a million dollars, exclusive private schools for the kids, and a nice home in the suburbs were not so bad and might suggest that hope had made a comeback well before Barack’s presidential run. Were Democrats fleeing the self-absorption of the Billary power couple of two Yale-educated lawyers — only to embrace the self-absorption of a power-couple of two Harvard-educated lawyers?”
Related thoughts here.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Still more. “It suggests, first, that the pseudo-messianic nature of the Obama candidacy is very much a part of the way the Obamas themselves are feeling about it these days. . . . Second, it suggests the Obama campaign really does have its roots in New Class leftism, according to which patriotism is not only the last refuge of a scoundrel, but the first refuge as well — that America is not fundamentally good but flawed, but rather fundamentally flawed and only occasionally good. There’s something for John McCain to work with here.”
Don’t tell me words don’t matter.
MORE: “I think she’ll make a first-rate First Lady.”
But Mickey Kaus comments: “Her comment is also of a piece with the cavalier Obamaesque dismissal of the achievements of the Clinton years and her church’s focus on ‘this racist United States of America.’ But is the explanation necessarily political? Even Dennis Kucinich would probably have no problem finding something to be proud of in the past two decades. If Michelle Obama’s default position is set to ‘Aggrieved,’ it also suggests something personal, no? ”
Meanwhile, reader Joe Sill seems to think it’s very important to point out that Obama doesn’t live in the suburbs, but in Hyde Park. Okay.
FINALLY: Reader Vic Sapphire emails:
Joe Sill’s nitpick about Hyde Park is the equivalent of saying “O.J. Simpson didn’t live in the suburbs, he lived in Brentwood.” Hyde Park is a neighborhood of mansions populated by no shortage of old-money types and others of considerable means. Houses there are rather pricier than, say, Schaumburg or other suburbs. Methinks Mr. Sill missed the point but, yeah, he got to show everyone how much he knows about Chicagoland’s geography!
Whatever. He was a bit, er, intense on the question. I’ve noticed that Obama’s online supporters are starting to come across like Ron Paul supporters, which isn’t a good thing.