Grasping at straws?

First lady Michelle Obama has entered the 2010 election fray, begging Democratic voters not to stay at home on November 2nd. This appeal seemed aimed at the young, whose 'leadership' she cited as the reason so much has been accomplished by the administration.

Well, perhaps this is a good time then to point out to the younger voters that it is the leadership of President Obama which has foisted upon them a huge and crushing debt which they will have to work very hard and long to pay off; that what it in fact means is that tomorrow has been sacrificed for the sake of today. That the leadership of the Obama Administration has consisted of apologizing to foreign nations for being American. That the American people are beginning to see that government isn't necessarily the answer, and that is a lesson worth learning.

Mrs. Obama, now proud of America because it voted for her husband (can one be more self-serving than that with regards to any true affinity for their country?) went on to say that change takes a long time and a lot of effort...never mind that the Obama Administration radically changed the landscape of health care in the proverbial one fell swoop, using a legislative provision rarely invoked simply to avoid actually addressing the concerns of the citizens. That's us, by the way. The Obama Administration believes in democracy so much that it is more than willing to effectively circumvent it when democracy doesn't happen to want what those in power do. That isn't love for America. That's a power play, pure and simple.

The First Lady is shilling for her husband because her husband's appeal has waned. While that may be admirable so far as it goes, in the end it merely demonstrates how far the left has to go to keep the mid term elections from becoming a complete disaster. The Democrats must step beyond their own party officials to have any hopes of re-energizing what is supposed to be its own electorate. They are grasping at straws. It's merely another sign of where America is headed in the next 4 weeks.