Thanks for exposing Michelle Obama's true colors...too bad they aren't red, white and blue.

I wish every young person had your perspective of America, Michelle Malkin. Obviously you have been paying more attention than most, especially Ms. Obama. Being over 60, as I am, gives one a much broader view of past and present events, and hope for future ones. I am glad John McCain is mature enough to have a clear vision of where this country has been and needs to go. Thank you for your courage Michelle, in reminding us of reasons to be proud of America. I am proud of you!

Oh, gag me! Another hyper-patriotic "America, Love It Or Leave It" speech. How can anyone actually characterize the last two elections as "peaceful, if contentious election cycles under the rule of law...?" Anyone who can dismiss concerted and coordinated efforts to disenfranchise millions of voters is truly viewing the world past star-spangled blinders.
A man who served his country proudly was attacked and slandered by supporters of a man who spent his young adulthood using his connections to avoid service. Another man who served his country proudly was trotted out before the world with dubious (if not fabricated) intelligence and duped by his administration into attempting to rationalize an unjust war.
This is the America you have never had reason to be ashamed of. Precisely the reason we feel shame sometimes is because we expect better. The most dangerous attitude an American can have is that we are perfect, that we do not have to strive to do better, that we have never done anything for which we should be ashamed.

Bless you Michelle
Again to show that we do have people of all ages that have common sense, respect, and most of all
love for our country;
We have a great country. And We have to be the people to keep it that way

It's not enough that we have a neo-Socialist like Hillary Clinton seeking to occupy the White House. Now we face the prospect of “First Lady, Michelle Obama”–an individual who'd bring with her the admitted disdain she's held for America and the tendentious racial attitude simmering just under her now-smiling, polished, public façade.

She and husband strenuously deny race is a campaign issue, but, alas, the good Mrs. Obama is playing the “race card” ever so deftly, telling audiences in well-delivered, emotive speeches that her husband was “cautioned” not to enter the presidential race, that she's “tired of being afraid,” and that she doesn't “want [her] girls to live in a country that is based on fear.” What we're hearing in her speeches are vestigial echoes of Dr. King's sentiments—only now, used as codified language for black listeners.

So would it be mean spirited to ask Michelle Obama just who “cautioned” her husband not to run? Or perhaps tell us what the Obamas were told would be the consequence(s) of his running for office? And along the way, would she tell us what elements in American society comprise the “fear” she repeatedly decries in her “Fear” speeches?

Forgive me, but Caution flags just went up when she said that for the first time in her life she's “proud of her country”? Oh? And why is that? Was she once besieged in the dead of night by hooded men in ratty pickup trucks, burning torches and screaming for the Obamas to leave town? Was Mrs. Obama denied a seat or entry somewhere? Was Mr. Obama in danger if he shopped at a 7-Eleven, as she once suggested?

Please: In her political stagecraft, the would-be First Lady is largely Hillary redux. The Obamas are “well off.” Barack Hussein Obama has a well-paying, prestigious job. And from all appearances, Mr. and Mrs. Obama live in a fine home; drive nice cars; eat well; dress well; provide excellent care and education for their children; enjoy the celebrity and support—unctuous and otherwise—bestowed on them by millions of Americans; and, but for the gnawing distractions and late work hours in vying to become the President and First Lady of the United States, sleep reasonably well throughout the night—blissfully unharmed by Republicans, Conservatives, big business executives, “the rich,” and . . . the “religious right.”

Stan S.
NYC

I'm not a woman of color, nor am I of your generation Ms. Malkin.
I'm from the generation that was raised by those who had lived thru wwII and Mssrs. Coolidge, Harding and Hoover's Great Depression --and like my sainted Irish Union loving grandfather I won't let you forget that the last time the Conservatives held power ended in a situation much like today's.
Yes, there are individual acts of greatness left in America--even some institutional greatness left within that government that you and your allies have done your best to destroy and corrupt. Yes, we did, as a people, outlast the despots in the Soviet Union and make a wall come down in the name of Freedom--and that was a wonderful moment of triumph of both Liberal and Conservative efforts to make all of Europe free.
The problem you have with folks like me, Ms. Malkin, is that we have really good memories--and the schools still taught things when we attended them. And we went to other schools too...I was 7.5 years old when my grandfather took me to march with Dr. King in Selma--and a little older for the speech at the mall. By the age of 13 I was campaigning for Bobby Kennedy--before your side sent assassins to murder him...that street school taught me lots of lessons about reality and republicans too.
You see the reason we are ashamed is that your lot has managed to destroy whole populations since the inception of this country....It was people who think like you--but that didn't look a thing like you---who oppressed and demeaned people of color in this country even as they self righteously proclaimed "liberty and justice for all"--just like you and the Bushies--what they really meant was "ALL Like us---rich, property owning, white conservatives--and of course our few house tokens"
And the reason we are ashamed is that we KNOW--having lived it ourselves--that the only people on that aircraft carrier are the poor and the middle class---Rich republicans NEVER serve...they buy their way into the reserves that stay in TX and campaign for daddie (as with W) or they claim that driving thru Iowa in a primary bus is equivalent service to that of our best and brightest in places like baghdad--(as per Mr. Romnie in characterizing his son's service earlier this year in Iowa)
And the reason we are ashamed is because we have READ the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of this country...and we know that you and your conservative running mates have made it a joke for the last 20 years--"NO law shall abridge the right to a speedy and fair trial" --"All men will be secure to their own purposes in their own homes" and "The right to free speech will not be abridged"---Yet your attorney general wrote opinions saying that W had the right to violate our privacy by listening to our telephone convesations without a warrant; That he had the right to call the same treatment we prosecuted German and Japanese officers under the war crimes laws at the hague and at Nuremberg in 1946 and 47 "not torture under the current American law and treaty" in 2002-2007; He further opined That W had the right to hold individuals without charge, without counsel and without the right to confront their accusers or the most minimal evidentiary standards in AMERICA---not in the USSR, not in CHINA, not even in North Korea--but in the USA.
After reading that litany, and it is only the tip of the iceberg of the atrocities committed by conservatives in office and in the media over the past 25 years, how can you be anything but ashamed of what we, the proud owners of this nightmare state of oppression, have wrought?
We are ashamed of America not because we didn't notice the things you noticed..and the thousands of other wonderful acts of kindness and goodwill shown by individual Americans over the last 225 years---No, we are ashamed that we have allowed people of color to be ground into senseless poverty-that we allow children under 5 around the world to die at the rate of one every 3 seconds out of greed and corruption so vile that it would rather allow their deaths than provide them with food aid or a 5 dollar mosquito net or a 10 dollar immunization--because we are too busy buying latte's, big screen televisions and funding W's wars of choice for no good reason--- and because, let's be honest here, children of color in places like Guinea and Africa and South or Central America really don't matter to the conservatives.
Thing there's not a racial component in those policies? Try this thought experiment Michelle, ma belle===every 3 seconds a child in France, or England or Germany or Atlanta dies from starvation--and whole cities in Sweden are losing their ability to function because of the number of adults dieing of aids, with orphans outnumbering productive breadwinners 30 to 1 in many places---so many that there is nobody left to teach them how to plant or harvest food--how long would it be before the aid ships arrived?--Yet it's been going on in the 3rd world for 40 years--and we do virtually nothing to save them--have you lived in white bread America for so long that you've forgotten their plight? Worse, can you blame us for being ashamed at the bigotry illustrated by this lack of concern for children of color, since you were once one.

I love this country, I served in the Navy during Vietnam and I have had the great good fortune of raising my children in safe places with decent schools because I worked my butt off and rose from poverty after my enlistment--but I can tell you that I have never forgotten nor willfully ignored my great good fortune in winning the sperm lottery--first to be born in America and second to be born with White Skin. I pay my taxes--all of them; I serve in my community as a volunteer to the least among us; I work hard every day to make this a better place for everyone--not just the priveleged few.
So Ms Malkin, I've EARNED the right to say what I think about this country--and I can tell you that I believe that if you are an American Patriot today and you are not ashamed of what conservatives have done to this country and to the world--then you're either not paying attention--or you're not nearly as smart as you'd like to believe that you are.
Since it's your job to pay attention, I'll presume that the latter is the case. And that being so, I am not just ashamed of America--I'm also ashamed of you and your running mates--conservatives first, Christians with no morals second, Rich bigots third --not from providing real products but by spewing hate--what a horrid way to make a living, and way, way down the list--Americans--but only by birth, not by inclination or philosophy.
Shame on you--and your fellow Republicans

Michelle --
I am very happy to hear about your pride in America. The Berlin Wall falling was not an American accomplishment, it had a lot more to do with the German economy, by the way. But that's neither here nor there.
While that was going on, American's continued to progress to having the worst healthcare among industrial countries. Miseducation has moved out of the ghettos and into suburbia.
Prior to that, and I was among them, we had to send the national guard to escort children to school ... little girls were bombed in that process. Reparations were made after Japanese Americans were released from internment camps, but that particular form of racism is still prevalent in pockets far and wide across America. Anti-Semitism is an ugly scar, as well.
We have prohibition against drugs which has led to the death of thousands of would-be drug dealers, law enforcement and innocents, along with the concomitant dependence of this economy. Along with drug trafficking, America is among the leaders in terms of human trafficking, not including illegal immigrants whose payments in taxes and social security are stolen at the same time they are denied a voice in our government, despite their arduous labor and benefit to our country and economy.
The voter's right act, praise Lyndon Johnson, passed in 1964, finally assuring blacks legal right to vote in this country. Though in some states, interracial marraige was still illegal. White American women did receive the right to vote earlier in 1920, beating out the Swiss in the '70s, but law enforcement is only now becoming "pc" enough to arrest abusers and to name husbands and boyfriends as the primary cause of death of women under a certain age.
How is it that the land of the Nazi has had a female leader before the land of the free? How many women are there in the senate, now ... or throughout our history? How many Asians and Jews?
We do not protect our children and our elderly. We are unfair to anyone outside a very narrow construct of "American." We murder and imprison at rates unheard of anywhere else in the world. We shoot innocent black men 20 or more times, again and again, and our police rape them with batons and force the smeared weapon into their mouths, breaking their teeth -- these are the instances that we know of.
Our tax system is antiquated; we drive SUVs while our sons and daughters die for oil in the Middle East. We have had to skills to achieve self sufficiency for at least 40 years, but lack the will so we attempt to conscript it, illegally if we must. Brazil is energy self sufficient -- go figure?
We resent conservation and recycling as "interference." We're fat and underexercised. We insist on speaking only one language. We fear G-d as she is revealed to other cultures. We don't read; we can't teach our children math. We're the leading exporter of arms.
Our leadership, with access to nuclear arms, behaved as a terrorist -- shaming us as a people and a nation. We invaded Iraq on pretense; and hunted down our former ally, Sadaam Hussein, who we supported as he strong armed his countrymen into progress by any means necessary.
I weep every Memorial and Veteran's day as I note that a preponderance of homeless men are veterans, that our soldiers have to pay for body armour, and that when they are injured in the field and brought home, they are treated in substandard facilities where they fend off rats. How can this be our truth? Did we see those pictures of Abu Ghraib ... that infamous photo of the woman with the dog? Were you proud, then?
In the 20th century, we have martyred a president, a King and an X -- what other country does these things? We have allowed class and race to affect those helped during a hurricane, where an entire major city was wiped out, such that scores died. In whose company do we stand?
We're a nation whose European ancestors intiated the custom of scalping only to use the practice to justify fear of Native Americans such that scalping bounties were paid for native scalps well through the 19th century. Our ancestors sold the bones of Native Americans as trinkets. And now that their numbers are decimated to fewer than 5 million, we are inconsolable if they win fishing or gaming rights in Wisconsin. We fight tooth and nail, locally, time and again to escape allowing them financial autonomy through gambling establishments. Yes, gambling establishments!
The largest profit made ever throughout commercial history was achieved by Exxon. Consider Philip Morris and it's impact throughout the world. In some countries, 40% or more are smokers. Amazing exports, we have.
America is only BEGINNING to live up to its principles and promises to ALL of its people, not just the privileged or the few, which is why I imagine Michelle Obama is finally proud of this country, as am I.
Amen.

Michelle Malkin knows full well what Michelle Obama meant. This is how she makes her money, being the traitor to her people she is everyday. As a woman of color, I am sure you see the things that can make someone ashamed of some of the things that America, as a nation, has done in your lifetime. However, I do not kow your background, you could have been a very privileged child/teen/young adult, which clears things up a little. Maybe its time to put your money where your mouth is Michelle, what have you done for this country lately? Any enlistments to speak of? Work down in the ghettos? Let us know, I think we have listened and read your crap long enough to get an explanation of where you're coming from.