The Obama Campaign is an Irony-Free Zone
The Washington Examiner reports:
First lady Michelle Obama has joined her husband's bandwagon to hit the rich and spread the wealth, questioning how well-off families can feel good if others are struggling.
To about 300 supporters wealthy enough to pay $300-$10,000 to attend the mid-day event, the first lady said, "If a family in this country is struggling, we cannot be satisfied with our own families' good fortune."
She also rapped the rich, as has her husband. "Who do we want to be?" Obama asked. "Will we be a country where success is limited to the few at the top? This country is strongest when we are all better off."
Freshly returned from her Colorado ski trip, itself a much needed respite from her Hawaiian vacation the prior month, the nation's nutritionist-in-chief reminded the rich donors in attendance of the importance of spreading wealth around to the less fortunate ... like the Obamas.
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Jan '11
Re: The Obama Campaign is an Irony-Free Zone
We can sort this out pretty quickly. I'll email her my net worth, and my bank account. She can take their net worth, add it to mine, divide by two, and send me the balance. Instant fairness! Equality!
Oct '10
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If parody is ever revived, the Left will have to fold. Fortunately for the Left, there isn't much chance of that happening.
Jan '11
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HVT - I'm becoming more convinced that the Obama administration is extremely effective ironic performance art - parody isn't a big enough word.
Oct '10
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You are undoubtedly correct . . . I'm thinking too small again, a mistake the Left never makes. It's time to check the Porkulus bill for an "ironic performance art" earmark. I mean, honestly, it's at least as important as Cowboy poetry, no? In fact, isn't there an Ironic Performance Art czar?
Jan '11
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HVT - yes, at some point during a speech, Obama will quote some cowboy poetry, and then try to stifle a laugh, unsuccessfully, and then say "OK, we gave this a good run, I just can't do it anymore"!
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Surely this is hyperbole...
Aug '10
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The Left is an irony-free zone which, by the way, tends to substitute sarcasm for humour.
Jul '11
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I think I found out what happened to my wal mart table cloth that went missing.
Mar '11
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Michelle, fresh off the slopes of Aspen, has her "qu'ils mangent de la brioche" moment.
Dec '10
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Aspen was her sixteenth vacation. She's averaging 5 1/3 vacations a year. Any guilt she speaks about is an attempt at projection.
Jun '10
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I'm starting to get annoyed with the appeals to class warfare because the term is incorrect. This is mob warfare, Bolshevik-style, using the proletariat as pawns for the purpose of creating a new cadre of elite rulers. The situation is neither parody nor irony. It's a cynical attempt to seize power.
Oct '10
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Banana Republic. Sit down, Michelle; not that one.
Edited on February 24, 2012 at 5:19pmOct '11
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Money extracted from one person at the point of a gun to give to another is not sharing, it is theft.
"First lady Michelle Obama has joined her husband's bandwagon to hit the rich and spread the wealth"
Slavery
The forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another.
The Obama's are not advocating charity which is voluntary sharing, they are practicing a form of slavery. How ironic. Oops.
Apr '11
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Is the American public noticing this at all? Has anyone seen any polling data suggesting that people are waking up to the rank hypocrisy that these two wallow in?
Dec '11
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Feb '12
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Socialism is for the masses and not for the Socialists.
Re: The Obama Campaign is an Irony-Free Zone
TC, that is a great line. And it strikes me as a neat encapsulation of the problem we face.