Sane and Insane

It is unfortunate but true that neither the President nor his wife can rely on the truth to persuade.  As the saying goes, “She’d tell a lie if the truth would serve her better.”  While her style last evening was clearly in the A- range (Yes, we demand perfection) the content was C- and lower if one takes into account the obvious fabrications.

Perhaps most amazingly is that both Obamas simply lie about the most easily verified “facts.”  For example, Michelle talked of the struggle Madelyn Dunham (of “typical white woman” notoriety) endured while working at Bank of Hawaii, passed over when due for promotion, a “glass ceiling” bumping against her noggin, walking miles through the snow to get to work . . . OK, we made up the last one – it was Honolulu, but, you get the idea.

Of course, the true story is a quite different: Madelyn, who attended but did not graduate the University of Washington, began as a clerk in the bank in 1960.  In the new state of Hawaii, “whites,” pejoratively known as haoles (pronounced how-lee(s) (pl.) for those from the other 57 states) were in the minority, as they remain today.  They were victims of ugly discrimination and still are today, all in a land of unbridled liberalism and “diversity.” But, that’s another essay. Add to Madelyn’s minority status that she was a woman and she was challenged, no doubt in a non-white man’s world. That notwithstanding, by 1970 she rose to vice president of the bank, a rather meteoric smashing of the glass ceiling  especially for someone not schooled or trained in banking. She was one of the first female bank executives in Hawaii or in any other of the states, known or unknown to Mr. Obama.

Michelle’s infidelity to the truth about a simple story that would be admirable absent the varnish is much like her husband’s discredited claims of his mother’s noble battle against evil “insurance companies” while fighting cancer.  David Maraniss, the Progressive hack and Obama flack from The Washington comPost, disposed of that canard handily. Her  fight was over a disability policy, which eventually paid and her health insurance covered all but $800 of deductible expenses in her battle that eventually took her life.