Michelle Obama says:
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.
Cue Victor Davis "The Nubians Are Ungrateful" Hanson:
I wrote not long ago that Michelle Obama is a loose cannon, and I fear that her latest is not her last. I would have thought that two Ivy-League degrees, a joint income of about a million dollars, exclusive private schools for the kids, and a nice home in the suburbs were not so bad and might suggest that hope had made a comeback well before Barack's presidential run.
I, for one, am grateful that she and her husband have decided to set aside their "self-absorption" in the service of their country.
Besides, I hear that Galt's Gulch is a restricted community...
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Who is John Galt?
I guess Hanson forgot to mention the his and her’s pimped-out Escalades.
What a fuckwad.
Here I was thinking Galt’s Gulch was Meaghan McArdle’s Koochie… oh damn, now I have to wash my brain. Any references to Ayn Rand need to be made with a disclaimer that Pammycakes is not involved.
That is all.
Oh, BTW, interesting picture (no, really).
JDsg: “Who is John Galt?”
Probably a rapist, like most of Ayn Rand’s leading men.
”…interesting picture …”
I believe that we are looking at John Travolta’s house in that picture. My wife loves him, despite the fact that he’s a loony wack job.
ahhhh … well, this explains a lot (from Wiki):
Hanson received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1975) and his Ph.D. in classics from Stanford University (1980).
I’ve seen it before … Ivy Envy.
In that case, VDH ain’t getting into Galt’s Gulch either.
Yeah, the big show-offs. Why don’t they pretend to be cowboys and live on a fake farm and talk “down-home” gibberish like normal people?
So Michelle Obama wasn’t proud of her country when Reagan single-handedly won the Cold War?
She wasn’t proud of her country when Bush flew over New Orleans after Katrina?
She wasn’t even proud of her country when Dick Cheney shot a lawyer in the face?
Liberals, I tell ya’.
Wait a minute. Home in the suburbs? The Obamas live in the Hyde Park/Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago, about a half a mile or so from where I live. This ain’t no suburb. It’s part of the city, and has been for well over 100 years.
-dms
The picture doesn’t show the eighteen hole golf course or the private ocean. Thats right, private ocean.
I’ve given up on the SF Chronicle. For a paper that is distributed in one of the most liberal corners of the US, to open the opinion page almost every day is to be confronted with dickwads like VD Hanson, Debra Saunders, Rueben Naverette and a host of other right-wing nuts. With an occasional rational column by Scheer.
The only rational editorial voice the Chronicle has belongs to cartoonist Tom Meyer. All of the other rational voices in those pages are syndicated.
As for Atlas Shrugged, I prefer Telemachus Sneezed.
Not true! Jon Carroll is entirely sane. And sound on cats.
Is Galt’s Gulch anywhere near Galt, CA? And yes, the San Francisco Chronicle has been destroyed. It was my daily paper from 1968 until the day Debra Saunders first appeared. I broke my habit just from reading her contrarian drivel. And VD????????? OMG what a fucking idiot. He has a PhD from STANFORD?
The Obamas’ income? Only spiked after people bought Barack Obama’s books. Clap Hanson, wingut welfare case, looks at those royalty figures and cries.
And besides, he is going to be sworn in on a Koran. Somebody in somebody’s church who follows these things said so.
Yes that’s Travolta’s place, and loony wackjobbery notwithstanding, having your own authentic fully-restored Qantas 707 is pretty cool. I wouldn’t want to live next door though.
Jon Carroll does not run in the editorial section, but the Datebook (entertainment) section. So does Mark Morford, who is also not insane.
And cats are evil. This is a proven fact.
It’s obvious that she means that the country has been run by a criminal enterprise called the Republican Party nearly all her adult life.
I only read him online (Morford too!) so I have no idea where he appears.
But cats are not evil!!
The cat currently occupying my lap has sent your pertinent information to her overlords; expect to hear from them shortly.