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August 9, 2010
"'The problem with Michelle Obama's Marabella-to-Martha's-Vineyard August"
Topics: Political News and commentariesVictor Davis Hanson manages to succinctly identify the real problem with Michelle Obama's lavish vacations:
The problem with Michelle Obama's Marabella-to-Martha's-Vineyard August is not that the first family doesn't deserve time off but that Michelle, in the past, has gone on the record that the country's elite (of which she claimed not to be a part) had created one nation for themselves and quite a different for most others -- at least that's how I interpreted "downright mean country," "raise the bar," and never having been proud of her country until the rise of hope and change.Read more ..So the Versailles-like aura around her trips suggests that her prior angst arose not because millions were not able to share the lifestyles of the elite but that she herself had not yet quite partaken in the sort of life she felt she deserved -- which she is now apparently enjoying to the fullest. The fact that her Costa del Sol trip coincides with hard times back in the states, comes on the heels of the Kerry yacht and the Clinton wedding, and clashes with her husband's anti-wealthy rhetoric (e.g., "at some point you've made enough money") makes it all the more weird, both for her adminstration's equality-of-result politics and for the larger liberal narrative of talking truth to power.
In other words, Michelle Obama is a selective Marxist with a bent toward the bourgeoisie - other peoples money should be redistributed - while her money and taxpayers' money goes to support a lavish lifestyle as an elite.
Posted by Richard at August 9, 2010 12:27 PM
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