THERE SHE GOES AGAIN – AT 8:18 A.M. ET:  The first lady of the United States is between vacations, and talking again.  The White House might regret it.  Let us remember that Michelle Obama famously said during the 2008 campaign that her husband's run for the presidency made her feel pride in the United States for the first time, a remark that should have disqualified her instantly from any visible position.

She has done some good work for veterans' families and on behalf of children.  But she's talkin' politics again, and talkin' nonsense:

Michelle Obama made a remarkable claim when talking up her husband, President Barack Obama, at a campaign event earlier today in Nashville, Tennessee.

"I am so in," Michelle Obama said toward the end of her remarks. "I am going to be working so hard. We have an amazing story to tell. This president has brought us out of the dark and into the light."

The crowd of nearly 450 folks applauded as the first lady likened her husband to a Jesus-like figure.

COMMENT:  Yikes.  Are they really going back to that?  We had our fill of the "gift from Heaven" line in 2008.  We heard Barack himself say that, starting with his election, the oceans would begin to recede.  I have, since then, met many people who've vacationed at the beach, and they have not reported any significant change in the way the waves roll in.  Maybe Barack didn't get to their beach yet.

I find it both hilarious and depressing that the first lady makes religious references on behalf of an administration that has often trampled religious sensibilities, as in requiring religious institutions to insure medical procedures that offend the religious conscience.

Pure hypocrisy.

April 18,  2012