After listening diligently to Hugh Hewitt’s masterful presentation of Michelle Obama over the last few weeks, as she lampoons all that is good in America, we would do well to recognize that as we gaze into the psychotic eyes of this woman that we are witnessing Hillary Clinton Redux. The “Vote for One and you get Two” template has already worked once and they do mean to repeat it, which is likely why she has not been placed in the rubber room to which Teresa Heinz Kerry was quickly escorted. The only difference this time is that she has no intention of saying she just wants to bake cookies with her daughters. She is going right for her own personal brass ring every bit as much as her husband, the now willingly emasculated Barack, as she intends to be a Senator from Illinois at some point when this Kabuki dance mercifully ends. 
         Mrs. Obama now tours America by essentially speaking for Karl Marx as she borrows a line from Samuel Clemens, “Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”; resurrecting his platform against the dreaded bourgeoisie, save for those who have authored books about “Change and Hope” as well as “Hope and Change”. There is every indication that those factually challenged writers from the left will receive the full protection of the First Amendment, and at taxpayer expense. Mark Steyn, author of “America Alone”, however, might be able to straddle the demarcation line of both Canada and the United States soon and be convicted of hate speech in both nations with a “Scarlet S” sewn to his attire. After all, a four year apology tour under a democratic president will necessitate a Ray Bradbury brand of censorship and mea culpas for the crime of speaking your mind. If this is at all confusing, I would suggest a reading of Kafka’s “The Trial” to understand the new landscape approaching American politics where the question “How do you feel today?” can only generate a response of “How am I supposed to feel?”

         What can we expect from a dual Obama presidency? For starters, we will see a rather weak Illinois senator replacing Mr. Obama so that when his tenure is over – hopefully in ruins after 4 Carteresque years we must hope to survive – his wife may assume the throne while he begins his Arab nations speaking tour. One can only imagine how much a former president with a middle name of Hussein will be paid in speaking engagement fees. But we will not be through with the Obamas. Like those of us old enough to have suffered Teddy Kennedy through our entire adult lives, we will have a mean and bitter Madam “Defarge” Obama to now contend with now. One should recall that the Dickens’ character blamed all of her woes on the French aristocracy and upon one family in particular, of which the Bush family will surely suffice. While Dickens’ Madame Defarge experienced true personal tragedy and oppression, our Madame “Defarge” Obama has been a child of relative privilege, offered a place at the table solely based upon her husband, as was Hillary Clinton. There is never room enough for two queens. So is it any wonder that the Clintons are being pushed from the stage in nothing less than, as James Carville stated of Bill Richardson, Judas like betrayals? “The Queen is dead, long live the Queen”. This one sells more easily to the same minds that stood in front of Marx, Lenin, Hitler, Castro, and all the other demagogues that brought ruination to their lands. Of the Obama supporters I know, including a few Catholic Monsignors, not one of them understands that they stand in the same well-intentioned shoes of those that came before them. The problem is that while we hear the chains rattling around their feet as they move, they believe that we have to try something different, we have to change. I dare say that those who were given five hundred yards of rail in Stalin’s Russia and were told to extend the track and build their own gulag when they were done had started out with similar intentions and hopes that were just as noble. They received “change” as well as chains.

      Let us hope that our own Madame Defarge leaves the stage in November, for if she does not, the construction of a mental guillotine in America will begin shortly thereafter. She can even be theatrical in her leaving by saying, "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known", if she so desires.