President of a Country You Disdain?

I have to give Michelle Obama kudos, because I really appreciate honesty. She did something that Leftists seldom get caught doing in the United States: revealing how little she thinks of our country.

Here's what she said yesterday at a campaign event in Madison, Wisconsin:

What we've 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'm really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.

I don't think I'm that exceptional when I say that I'm frequently proud of my country.

In fact, during the course of my adult life, I've been really proud of my country so many times it would be impossible to count them--and every time, it feels like the first time!

From the time I first enlisted, to the time we bombed Libya, to the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the liberation of Kuwait, to the heroes of Flight 93, to the way we came together after 911, to the invasion of Afghanistan, to the liberation of Iraq from its dictator, to every time I visit Mount Rushmore, to everything I saw in Washington D.C. a few months ago, to every time I see our flag, to every time I review the Bill of Rights, to every time I read some of our history,...and pretty much every day of my life, I feel really proud of my country.

I was really proud of my country countless times even before I became an adult, and was able to better appreciate why the United States is so worth being proud of.

Some might dismiss Michelle Obama's words as something carelessly spoken, something said in the heat of a campaign speech.

I can't imagine those words ever coming out of my mouth under any circumstances. Even when I think of how far we have allowed liberals to take our country off course, even when I consider how far we've drifted from constitutional integrity, even when I ponder the societal decay we're now experiencing, even when I acknowledge the genuine wrongs this country has committed over its history...even then, I cannot help but realize that despite our failings, shortcomings, and current misguided ways, America is still incomparably better than any other place in the world.

What kind of woman has such disdain for her own country that it has taken her roughly 25 years of adult life to reach a moment when she could say that she was "really proud" of her country? And that the first such moment came not because of the great freedom we have here, the system of justice, the immense opportunity or prosperity we enjoy, or the noble stands this country has made, but because her husband's campaign is going well, and because she hopes some people are hungry to take America even farther from her heritage and her constitution?

You might say, "Well, that's just his wife." That says nothing about Barak Obama himself. Really?

What kind of man would marry a woman who held such disdain for her country that she had to reach the age of 44 before she became "really proud" of her country, and only then because of her husband?

I can only say that I wouldn't marry or wouldn't have married a woman who thought so little of the country I love so much. I ran with some pretty low-rent gals in my intemperate youth, and still I can't imagine any of them saying something like this.

I would think there would be a certain level of compatibility, a certain level of agreement, for Barak and Michelle to be romantically and maritally compatible, so I have to wonder if he shares these sentiments.

If I'm wrong, I would expect Obama to repudiate his wife's comments.

Otherwise, do we want to seriously consider electing a man to run the country when he (or his wife) thinks there is so little reason to be proud of this country?