Okay, we get the picture the mainstream sends. First Lady Michelle Obama is so much in demand as a celebrity that she gets to sip tea at will with Prince Harry at Kensington Palace and merits “an affectionate reunion” with Barack “bro” Prime Minister David Cameron and his Mrs. on the steps of Downing Street.
Oh, the powers protocol bestows on the wife, daughter and even the mother-in-law of a president. Just as the rarified gentry of the Victorian era, when matrons waited at home for other mavens to come calling, world leaders long ago took for themselves, the same unalienable rights.
The big picture the mainstream media never shows is the gallivanting Michelle serving up her trademark malicious menu of malcontent, the one that focuses on everything negative and that potentially feeds the festering resentment of today’s restless youth.
But then again Michelle’s incurable state of ‘Me-ism’ is not a pretty picture.
As keynote speaker at graduation ceremonies, like the one at King College Prep High School in Chicago’s South Side this year, she offered no hope, no inspiration to eager young graduates going out into the world. Instead, she spun again the sorry tale of how her and her husband suffered at the hands of a supposedly racist society:
“I know the struggles many of you face, how you walk the long way home to avoid the gangs; how you fight to concentrate on your schoolwork when there’s too much noise at home; how you keep it together when your family’s having a hard time making ends meet. But more importantly, I know the strength of this community.”
