What is the Obama team really about? Here are the words of Michelle on that subject:

"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before . . . I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second." Michelle Obama, Senior Paper, Princeton, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

Turns out that Michelle attended Princeton as a black woman, first. No doubt, she and Obama came into the presidency with the same perspective

"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."

(Note: she said what she meant and she explains why she said what she said. The Obama campaign had its "explanation." But, Michelle Obama offered her's, beginning with "because . . .")

"I mean, people are serious about moving this country in a different direction. And that makes me feel good to know that, you know, I'm not alone in my frustration."

Let this quote have everything to do with the quote immediately preceding.


For the remaining seven quotes,  click on "Read more."

On One World aspirations:

“If Barack doesn’t win Iowa, it is just a dream. If we win Iowa, then we can move to the world as it should be.”

Understand that nothing this woman says is fluff.

"You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. We just weren't raised that way."

Problem: Michelle is not just talking about political outcomes; rather, I believe she includes existential consequences -- meaning that the Obama's do not judge their agenda against the negative effects "in the near term" that this agenda might have. Such gives rise to the notion that in the face of disaster, these two are "always right."

"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."

In other words, the conservatives and traditionalists need to come on board or get lost.

"All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won't do - that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be."

Guess who determines "the world as it should be."

"Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation."

Apparently, "fixing the soul . . . . in this nation" is a legislative concern.

"We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possible happen, to live beyond our fear - think about that, and help us. Help lift us up, help us fight this fight to change, - transform - this country in a fundamental way. This chance won't come around again."

When I suggested that "fear" of political consequences was not what Michelle had in mind, I was serious. She is talking more about existential consequences, the fear of the unknown, taking this nation away from its own historicity and into a tradition that is unknown. If you doubt this, the next quote will end the debate:

"Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

As things stand, at this moment in our history, about 40% to 45% of the nation is prepared to move away from the established history of this country, ready to simply ignore the rule of law as we have intended it to be. It is my opinion that the 10th Amendment (power to the states) has been completely neutered via a strategy of legislative fiat, rather than by Constitutional proscribed procedures. We have the radical Left and the Congressional Black Caucus to thank for this - a group of folks who care nothing for Constitutional processes.