The Occasional Observer

I love quotes like this one from Mrs. Obama, almost makes it too easy for McCain to run:

"...for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country."

Wow, she must have lived a brutal life to have held that bleak a view of our country heretofore. So, let's learn more about her difficult life in the country she was never proud of before:

At 44, Michelle Obama would seem to be the poster child for opportunity in America. A daughter of the South Side possessing immense talent and discipline, she went from Princeton to Harvard to a silk-stocking Chicago law firm to public service and on to a six-figure job at one of Chicago's premier hospitals.

Interesting. Then again, I'm sure she could have had the same or better experience in any other country around the world; no reason to be proud that America afforded her those opportunities. Her experience is pretty much par for the course for people in all other countries.