I cannot say that I was suprised yesterday at Michelle Obama's huge gaffe in her stump speech yesterday in Madison WI. where she said:

"For the first time in my adult lifetime I'm proud of my country"

That is an exact quote of what she said yesterday; let me tell putting gender aside I as an american was deeply offended by that remark, bear in mind that I take into account that she is a minority and had struggles and challenges in life that most white americans do not have to endure, having prefaced that I still take issue with that comment

My belief is that we should all be proud to be americans I am proud to be an american, now having said that, are there things wrong with America that need to be improved upon? Yes there is. There are also many acomplishments during Michelle Obama's lifetime that would make any american regardless of gender, race, creed color or economic status proud to be an american, there are many americans that have greatly suffered yet are still proud to be and call themselves americans. She says that its not just because her husband is doing well in the primaries yet she never fully described what has made her proud other then broad abstract idealism. This sort of gaffe is great fodder for the Republicans and Mccain and do not doubt that the conservatives will make great hay with this, it has already started this afternoon in "fixed news" aka Fox News.

I see a common thread in the Obama campaign, that being that both he and his wife seem to be embarassed of patriotism yesterday it was Michelle Obama's speech, before that it was Obama's refusal to say the Pledge of Allegence, and the refusal to wear the flag pin that is worn by all U.S. Congressmen and Congresswomen and U.S. Senators symbolic of 911 and its victims, its this and many other things that deeply disturb me about the obama campaign I simply see this as Jessie Jacksonism reinvented,  a mission is social jihadism, Michelle calls for and mentions change...but change to what to hope well Ms. Obama define that hope for us please and please stop defining it in abstract terms, for once can you and your husband go on the record for something and define yourselves in specifics and not generalities. Somehow I think they are afraid to because if they do they are afraid they will lose the nomination.These are just a few of the reasons that I personally think Hillary Clinton will make a far more difficult candidate to defeat in the general election against McCain as opposed to Barack Obama...feel free to weigh in with your comments.