Feeling Those Old Phi Beta Feelings

"For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country, because it feels like hope is making a comeback."

— Michelle Obama, you-know-who's spouse

"I wrote not long ago that Michelle Obama is a loose cannon, and I fear that her latest is not her last. I would have thought that two Ivy-League degrees, a joint income of about a million dollars, exclusive private schools for the kids, and a nice home in the suburbs were not so bad and might suggest that hope had made a comeback well before Barack's presidential run.

Were Democrats fleeing the self-absorption of the Billary power couple of two Yale-educated lawyers — only to embrace the self-absorption of a power-couple of two Harvard-educated lawyers? Or was it a Yale versus Harvard Law School intramural thing all along?"

- Victor Davis Hanson, somebody smarter than both of 'em, blogging in the National Review Online