If you are at all a political creature and you have not read Jodi Kantor's New York Times article "Michelle Obama and the Evolution of a First Lady" you really ought to. Ms. Kantor's article is easily one of the subtlest, most effective pieces of propaganda I have ever read. The article perfectly illustrates to the savvy, why the left controls the narrative in contemporary American politics--they are so much better at it than the right. After reading this article I was compelled to click on Ms. Kantor's highlighted by-line, as I was sure she was educated in the Ivy League and I was not wrong, Columbia quod Harvard.Like a certain wooden horse made famous in The Aeneid, the First Lady is merely a delivery system, for the article's true intent. This was a very artfully constructed assurance to the hard left that President Obama intends to go even further to the left than his staff "allowed" in his first term. Virgil would be proud and so would the author's....
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