The meaning of 'sacrifice' ~ By Joseph Farah

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By Joseph Farah Posted: October 03, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 I don't like Michelle Obama. I don't try to hide that fact. I state it openly and honestly. I don't like her any more than I like her husband. What I don't like about her is best illustrated in her characteristically self-centered, creepy comment Thursday about what a personal "sacrifice" it was for her to rush off to Europe to lobby for the Chicago Olympics. "We dropped everything – dropped everything – to be a part of this team," she said in thanking Oprah Winfrey for joining her in the Olympic pitch. "As much of a sacrifice as people say this is for me or Oprah or the president to come for these few days," the team has been working for years. First of all, let's be honest about what this all-expense-paid (by taxpayers) trip to Europe is all about: It's a political payoff to the Obamas' corrupt political machine in Chicago. But, more to the point, what "sacrifice"? Does Mrs. Obama even understand the meaning of the word? Sacrifice is what American men and women are doing now in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sacrifice is what American men did in Vietnam. Sacrifice is what American men did in World War II, when hundreds of thousands of them went to Europe (and Asia and Africa) and never came back – or came back missing limbs. Somehow, I expect Mrs. Obama and her husband will survive this trip and return home in one piece. If any sacrifice is being made in the context of this wholly unnecessary excursion it is by U.S. taxpayers who will pick up the enormous tab. That the first lady of the United States would need to hear this from me and others who have pointed it out suggests she has no sense of duty, honor and sacrifice. [CLICK HERE TO READ MORE]