Why Michelle Obama Was Wrong to Trash America at the UN

◼ In her speech to the United Nations this week, first lady Michelle Obama chose to highlight some of the negative things women face in the United States today. - Ericka Andersen/The Daily Signal

“Women here are still woefully underrepresented in our government and in the senior ranks of our corporations,” Obama said at the Global Education First Initiative event. “We still struggle with violence against women and harmful cultural norms that tell women how they are expected to look and act.”

The first lady, meanwhile, made no mention of women who are regularly raped and beaten in Afghanistan, forced to kill their female babies in China and not permitted to drive in Saudi Arabia. Those three countries, by the way, are members of the United Nations....

The next time Michelle Obama stands before an audience of countries where women are truly discriminated against—some forced to cover their entire bodies or have a male guardian with them in public—and complains that America struggles with “harmful cultural norms that tell women how they are expected to look and act,” forgive me if I’m a little embarrassed.

The United States serves as a role model for those countries that treat women as less than human. The first lady should confidently remind other countries they can be better and their women, too, can have the opportunities we have here in America.