“Hope is making a comeback, and let me tell you, for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country. Not just because Barack is doing well, but because I think people are hungry for change,” stated Michelle Obama recently.

At first it seemed as though the Obama family just hadn’t adjusted to being in the national spotlight and as such simply didn’t realize in that unforgiving glare every nuance of what they say will be highlighted and held against them politically.

Liberal Democrats are notorious for pandering to their constituency groups where there is no universal policy statement but a cut-and-paste platform of rhetoric that is tied specifically to a certain cause or group or area of the country and the campaign speeches they give change from day to day based on who they are addressing.

As a quick aside here, liberals and their media counterparts charge Conservative Republicans with ‘pandering’ to certain groups yet never show that the message of their ideological principle never changes from one place to the next… it’s always the same, group to group, city to city, state to state.

But then more information started to trickle out about the things the Obamas have been saying, some of which goes back to their college years and suddenly it became clear that they know exactly what it is they are saying and are not concerned about it being highlighted for everyone to see.

When Michelle Obama made that statement… and repeated it on the campaign trail… she was not concerned about any negative impact it may have had on her husband’s campaign because she was doing little more than reiterating a belief that all liberals have pontificated over time.

Which is history doesn’t matter to them. All that matters to liberals is the here and now. Every day for liberals starts anew with no past baggage and no historical precedent to follow.

When Mrs. Obama said ‘for the first time in my adult life’ she literally meant ‘starting today’. In liberal speak you’ve heard this same sentiment expressed many times before, but most people aren’t focused enough on the political realm to catch it.

The way liberals have expressed it in the past is, ‘what have you done for me lately?’

Commentators have challenged her contention by supplying a laundry list of historical events that have literally changed mankind and directed them to a better way of life, but none of that matters because it didn’t directly affect her… in her world view… and is now in the past so it has become inconsequential.

A perfect example of this was presented by Mrs. Obama in her senior thesis at Princeton University where she wrote, "My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Regardless of the circumstances under which I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second."

Sounds eerily similar to ‘for the first time in my adult life’ doesn’t it?

This is classic pandering. Here is an African-American female who has been afforded an opportunity that only a select number of human beings have had the honor of accomplishing and instead of recognizing that profound feat and what it meant to have been able to do it, she has to pander out of what one can only register as guilt.

This is exclusive to liberals, folks. Hillary Clinton is doing it now saying, “A lot of women project their own feelings and their lives on to me, and they see how hard this is. It's hard. It's hard being a woman out there.”

Michelle Obama admits that her ‘white’ professors and classmates were ‘liberal and open-minded’ towards her and Hillary Clinton admits that she is the first female to win a presidential primary, yet both of these liberals claim to not see the positive accomplishment in their endeavor and use the occasions to do nothing more than pander to the masses for some sort of misguided sympathy.

You’ve never heard my choice for presidential candidate and the most powerful woman in the world who just happens to be African-American, Condoleezza Rice, crying about the heavy and undue burden placed on her as Provost for Stanford University or as the U.S. Secretary of State.

An accomplishment Michelle Obama should have been ‘proud’ of but then it didn’t have anything to do with her, so it doesn’t count in the Obama world view.

In Secretary Rice’s 2006 Commencement speech at Boston College she destroyed the pandering attitudes of Obama and Clinton. “The fourth responsibility of the educated person is to be optimistic. Too often, cynicism can be the fellow traveler of learning and I understand why. History is full of much cruelty and suffering and darkness and it can be hard sometimes to believe that a brighter future is indeed dawning. But for all of our past failings, for all of our current problems, more people now enjoy lives of hope and opportunity than ever before in all of human history. This progress has been the concerted effort not of cynics but of visionaries and optimists, of impatient patriots who dealt with our world as it was, but who never ever accepted that they were powerless to change that world for the better.”

At what point are liberals in this country going to stop playing the violin strings of negativity and defeatism as a method of pandering for sympathy and embrace the power of being positive and accept that their lives in America are more beneficial and plentiful than mankind has ever been allowed?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lee P. Butler has worked in environmental management for twenty years while honing his writing skills in poetry, fiction, and opinion. He has been published in several outlets including The Richmond County Daily Journal, OpinionEditorials.com, Newsback.com, TownHall.com, The North Carolina Conservative, GOPUSA, The Lasting Joy, and is the owner/publisher of leepbutler.com.