Give Me a Break

Puh-lease.

Michelle Obama, wife of Democrat Barak Obama: "What we've learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback, and let me tell you something, for the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change."

She hasn't been proud of America in the past 26 years?

• The Obamas are in the upper 1% of wage earners in this country; they are millionaires
• She went to Princeton and Harvard
• He's running for President of the United States

Commentary:

"I don't think he marched at Selma. I don't think he got beat upside the head. I don't think Bull Connor turned the fire hose on him. I don't think dogs were unleashed on Barack Obama. She did not experience any of the 1950 segregation. To say something like that and to get a complete pass; people acting as though this is something unique and revelatory, that this is some special couple. Did she not feel proud about the Berlin Wall coming down? Has she not felt proud about the way we came together after 9/11? They take this country for granted, not understanding what it took to get this country where it is.

Here are two relatively young people, who grew up after a road had been paved for them. They have nothing in the world to be miserable about. He is running for the presidency of the United States. He ran for the Senate and made it. They have nothing in the world to be miserable or unhappy about or embarrassed about when it comes to this country."

Ya Think So?

What the Senate Ethics Committee is really saying:

"Jiminy Cricket could've told us this; however, we can't rely on a conscience (because we don't have one). Ergo, we will improperly* use your hard-earned tax dollars to act like we matter."

*Unlike the Committee's actual misuse of the word "improperly", Queen Bee's above use is correct. Queen Bee suggests to the Committee possible substitutions: criminally, illegally, pervertedly, repulsively, revoltingly.

McCain's Bain

Not that it really means a whole lot what other egotistical politicians think (Note: Sen. Bennett is in my ward and is actually very nice and down to Earth.), but this article from the Washington Post is interesting. A friend who used to work for McCain told us he has a TERRIBLE temper.

Make Yourself Known!

If you're familiar with the my other blog, you may have participated in a survey (I abstained so as to not skew the results) a few weeks ago regarding who you would vote for if the elections were held that day. Here are the results:

Clinton 0 (0%)
Edwards 0 (0%)
Guiliani 1 (5%)
Huckabee 0 (0%)
McCain 1 (5%)
Obama 3 (15%)
Romney 11 (57%)
Thompson 3 (15%)

Since the survey was participated in anonymously, I don't know who was voting for whom. Comment below if you're brave enough to stand up and be counted for your candidate!! Let us know also why you would've voted for him*.

*Queen Bee wishes to note that since no vote was cast for Hillary Clinton, the use of the pronoun "him" is entirely appropriate in the previous sentence.

Coulter on McCain

A Democrat in Republican Clothing

Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP
By Bob Cusack

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions.In interviews with The Hill this month, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) said there were nearly two months of talks with the maverick lawmaker following an approach by John Weaver, McCain’s chief political strategist. Democrats had contacted Jeffords and then-Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) in the early months of 2001 about switching parties, but in McCain’s case, they said, it was McCain’s top strategist who came to them.