Mrs. O to the Rescue

At the end of July, Congress went home with the majority of Americans opposing ObamaCare. Democrats were instructed to hold town hall meeting to sell the plan. They failed miserably, and since the day after Labor Day, President Obama has ramped up his push for socialized medicine.

Since Labor Day he's addressed the schools, a joint session of congress, and appeared on 60 Minutes. Coming up, he'll be yapping away on a round of Sunday morning talk shows and chatting with David Letterman on Monday.

The conventional wisdom has been that the First Lady would not become active in ObamaCare for fears of bringing up memories Hillary Clinton universal care debacle, some 15 years ago. Michelle Obama gave a speech today touting socialized medicine to a group of women. Here are a few snippets, with my comments in red.

[Speaking about a trip to the ER for one of their daughters a few years back], "But it is that moment in our lives that flashes through my head every time we engage in this health insurance conversation. It's that moment in my life, because I think about what on earth would we have done if we had not had insurance."

But you did have insurance. It was private insurance, and not some crappy "public option." If you didn't have insurance, your daughter still would have been treated.

On the role of women in getting children to see the doctor “Mothers are the ones that do it. And many women find themselves doing the same thing for their spouses ...[and are being] crushed by the current structure of our health care”

Yes, mothers typically take on that role. How exactly will ObamaCare change that?

"My father has multiple sclerosis. He contracted it in his 20s. ... He was able to get up and go to work every day, even though it got harder for him as he got sicker and more debilitated. And I find myself thinking what would we had done as a family on the south side of Chicago if my father hadn't had insurance."

The same thing families have done on the south side of Chicago for years, apply for medical assistance.

So access to health care, or health insurance for that matter, has never been a problem for the First Lady. In retrospect, she worries about what she and her family would have done without insurance. Shouldn't she be more worried about what would have happened if ObamaCare was the only option?

MO is preaching a health care plan that she'll never be part of, just as Oprah preaches dietary practices she'll never adhere to.