Suddenly struck with the need to express patriotism two days ago Michelle Obama confessed that for the first time in her adult lifetime (an interesting time frame that she limited it to don't you think), she was proud of America.

Yesterday she attempted to clarify speaking to WJAR-TV:

What I was clearly talking about was that I'm proud in how Americans are engaging in the political process," she said. "For the first time in my lifetime, I'm seeing people rolling up their sleeves in a way that I haven't seen and really trying to figure this out — and that's the source of pride that I was talking about," she added.

The problem for Michelle is that she is both right AND wrong.

Yes she was expressing pride in how people were engaging in the political process. But if that's all she was speaking about then she was lying when she said on Monday that it was unrelated to the Presidential campaign and the political process of picking our next President.

But I believe she also exhausted. The campaign has run long, and in a moment of weakness as a progressive liberal she actually...

told...

the truth!

She was speaking from the heart - the clip is clear in how that is portrayed. And so she was being honest when she said that for the first time she was proud. Because - she either couldn't remember, or possibly did not feel pride - when the NYPD and FDNY went up the stairs in the Twin Towers as everyone else was leaving. Being so hostile towards our troops and the mission they are on to protect and secure our future liberty - it is very possible she felt not one ounce of pride in the performance our military troops have turned in - in the Global War on Terror.

Perhaps because of her hate for republicans she felt nothing when the Berlin wall fell, and Communism was defeated.

Maybe she feels nothing at all about the rate of home ownership of Blacks over the last eight years to present day (the all time highest rate of African American families actually owning their own home in the history of the nation.)

Maybe none of the progress made before she stepped on that stage did mean anything to her... so in telling the truth, speaking from the heart, she let us all in on a little peek of what she really thinks.

From the standpoint of running a campaign - of course she misspoke. But from being just who she is - she sounded quite authentic to me.