Not me, Michelle

"Every woman I know, regardless of race, education, income, background, is struggling every day to keep her head above water. We've been told we can have it all, but lose ourselves in the process." Michelle Obama

Not me, Michelle. But she said, every woman she knows, and I'm old enough to be her mother and I'm not a wealthy lawyer in a high profile life. (Obama's numbers are going up now that she's back in the closet.) That "we can have it all" was a message the feminists, progressives, humanists and liberals promoted almost 40+ years ago; now it's just a straw-woman to knock down in the ladies' magazines, one more thing for women to whine about. No one gives it serious consideration these days. I was a liberal back in the 1970s, but I knew better even then. Yes, you can have it all, just not all at the same time.

My husband has been on two mission trips to Haiti and is going back again in November. He says he's never met such happy people, yet they have nothing by our standards--not a road system, not clean water, not utilities, not sanitation, and certainly not a working government. It takes confiscatory taxes and gives nothing in return. Not even promises of hope and change. When you place your faith in careers, government bureaucracy, relationships, consumer goods or even your own power to make everything work your way, you're bound to be disappointed.