Michelle Obama: Hope is dead

She was not proud of America until she was 44 years old, when she said of her husband’s 2008 Democrat presidential nomination, “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country, because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback”.

Obama: “Yes. I do, because we feel the difference now”.

While having high hopes can make reality more devastating if things don’t go the way one expects – as Clinton’s supporters know all too well – believing that there’s no goal in working toward change is the biggest threat to progress. “The “hope” presidency couldn’t crack 40 percent on a basic question about your kids’ lives being better than yours”.

In the clip, Obama talks about her interactions with Trump and how she drew on her own experiences with former First Lady Laura Bush during the 2000 transition.

“That was one of those things where you just sort of think, ‘Dang, you don’t even know me, ‘ ” she told Oprah Winfrey in a CBS interview out Monday. “Let’s remember the good things that we have”, she told Oprah.

As Harvey Milk once said, “The only thing they have to look forward to is hope”.

Now, for many who already knew how well-spoken the First Lady is, it is more apparent than ever that maybe the wrong woman ran for President under the Democratic ticket in the first place.

“What do you give your kids if you can’t give them hope?” she posited.

Towards the end of Trump’s event on Saturday, the president-elect brought up Michelle Obama‘s recent comment that it does not feel like there is a lot of hope in the country right now.

She argued in the interview that children are the ones who most need hope.

When she’s no longer the First Lady, perhaps we’ll see her taking a louder and more forceful stand. Now they want you to think you have none.

A strong, confident, capable person is optimistic about his or her life regardless of who holds political power, because he or she expects to achieve and overcome obstacles without the assistance of the state.

And once again the First Lady’s words have moved us viscerally. In it, Obama does not mention the incoming president by name.

Michelle Obama seemed to speak not just her own mind – but the minds of millions of US citizens – during a recent address with Oprah Winfrey.