Wisdom from the FLOTUS

Wisdom from the FLOTUS

Over the years, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama has often been gracious enough to express her heartfelt opinions.

From her racially-charged senior thesis at Princeton University in which she conceded feeling uncomfortable being black in a white society to her admission of never having felt any pride in her country, our First Lady has always been forthcoming and has exemplified an incisive awareness of her beloved United States of America.

Uninformed, mean-spirited critics of Mrs. Obama can launch vicious attacks on her all they want but they only display their total lack of couth and incredible ignorance when they call her names and disparage her many accomplishments, fashion sense, personal attributes, and keen knowledge.

After all, didn’t she–on national television, no less–just persuade Jay Leno to munch his first apple in 28 years!

And, was Mamie Eisenhower ever denigrated as a mooch? Was Jackie Kennedy ever described as class-less? Was Lady Bird Johnson ever castigated for wearing a purple dress to a state dinner? Was Laura Bush ever criticized for using Air Force One as her valet service? Were any other First Ladies in the last century derided merely for wanting to be involved in affairs of state?

Okay, Democrats Edith Wilson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosalynn Carter, and Hillary Clinton were but they were Democrat exceptions. However, attacks on Michelle are clear evidence of that racism she alluded to at Princeton.

And, the uncouth, racist meanness persists.

Dastardly accusations that Michelle Obama is a spendthrift on taxpayer money simply because she likes to vacation, claims that she is a hypocrite for advocating for better nutrition and against childhood obesity while she scarfs down grossly-fattening foods, and allegations she lies and doesn’t know what she’s talking about are absolutely unacceptable!

Then came all those preposterous lies about Michelle’s prejudices and ambitions in Jodi Kantor’s new book The Obamas, all fabrications that ”upset” her, even though she didn’t read the book. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=12411.)