Remember when Michelle Obama made the following remarks?

• “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.”
• “America is downright mean!”
• “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-four!”

The above remarks represented Mrs. Obama’s opinion only a few short months ago, yet now she wants Americans to believe that somehow her country has miraculously changed into one she can really love.

A New Michelle
Of course, her country has not changed, but Mrs. Barack Obama has. She had to change for the sake of her husband’s presidential run. Her earlier speeches were filled with grievances and complaints. She complained about having to pay back student loans; she griped about people being isolated and living only for themselves.

She invented the absurd idea that every time her husband got close to winning the primaries, “they” raised the bar. The only bar was immovable--the number of delegates to be accrued. She lamented that it has become hard to anyone to succeed because every time a person gets close to winning, “they raise the bar.” Just who the “they” is she did not explain.

Of course, such nonsense would not long be tolerated on the campaign trail, so the campaign handlers took the Mrs. in hand in an attempt to remake her image. They taught her how to smile instead of projecting that scowl she became famous for.

They taught her to say nice things, instead of constantly running down her country. And she debuted the new attitude on the liberal chat fest, “The View,” even remarking that she was “really touched” when First Lady Laura Bush defended the “proud for the first time” gaffe.

Mrs. Obama added, "That's what I like about Laura Bush, her calm, rational approach to these issues. I am taking some cues. There's a reason why people like her, because she doesn't sort of fuel the fire."

Now She Love America
When Barack Obama won a senate seat in the United States Senate, Mrs. Obama got a substantial pay bump from $121,910 in 2004 to $316,962. That pay raise happened in 2005, yet it was not until 2008 that she felt any pride in your country.

In her speech at the Democratic National Convention, Mrs. Obama said, “My piece of the American Dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me.” Those preceding her were “driven by the same conviction that drove my dad to get up an hour early each day to painstakingly dress himself for work — the same conviction that drives the men and women I’ve met all across this country… That’s why I love this country.”

Yet just a few months again, in Charlotte, North Carolina, she lamented, “We’re still living in a time and in a nation where the bar is set, right?…You start working hard and sacrificing and you think you’re getting close to that bar, you’re working and you’re struggling, and then what happens? They raise the bar…keep it just out of reach.” Those pesky bar raisers have suddenly disappeared, and the hard work of her dad and other forefathers has actually paid off.

Of course, the new Mrs. Obama is easy to understand: she is simply engaging in damage control, trying to help her husband win the election. But like her husband’s former nemesis, Mrs. Clinton, Mrs. Obama will say whatever it takes to make political points. That, of course, is the Democrat way.

Laura Bush’s Positive Spin