Obama's Failure of Moral Courage

Pajamas Media ^ | June 27 | Tim Birdnow

[AJKauf]

Courage was considered the prime virtue through most of recorded history among virtually all peoples on the Earth, and has only recently been displaced by liberal Western concepts such as tolerance and comity. Children are no longer instilled with the desire to express courage — moral or otherwise — but instead are taught to value “openness,” “diversity,” “conflict resolution,” and other liberal forms of pacifism designed to create a drab and dreary conflict-free wilderness, a land where no one can be offended, no one holds any strong or difficult positions, a place without danger and fear — in short, a world without the need for courage.

But, of course, there are many in this world who still reside in the seventh century and they have declared violent war against us (the brutes!). They understand the meaning of courage and intend to prove their own particular brand of this virtue by lopping off our heads and flying aircraft into our buildings. Americans, the product of a long, protracted struggle to settle and tame the wilds of North America, still retain a residue of their ancestral courage, that mettle forged in the white-hot furnace of suffering, struggle, and death as our forefathers fought, bled, and died to bequeath us a better place. Unfortunately, many of our leaders have not only lost this virtue, but actively despise it. A prime example is our current fearless leader Barack Hussein Obama.

Obama, a strange product of the union between a pampered American leftist and a quite randy son of a Kenyan Mau Mau revolutionary (who seems to have sired children all over the world), lived extensively abroad and was educated not in a setting designed to pass along American cultural attitudes....

[theDentist]

To Obama, “courage” means increasing taxes, nothing more. he’s weak, inept, and out of his depth.

[JimRed]

Children are no longer instilled with the desire to express courage — moral or otherwise — but instead are taught to value “openness,” “diversity,” “conflict resolution,” and other liberal forms of pacifism designed to create a drab and dreary conflict-free wilderness, a land where no one can be offended, no one holds any strong or difficult positions, a place without danger and fear — in short, a world without the need for courage.

Those who beat their swords into plowshares will end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

I'd attribute the quote, if I could remember who said it.

[TigersEye]

“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” - Benjamin Franklin

[rockinqsranch]

“But what did Americans expect when we knowingly elected a man who promised to end the war? This failure is ultimately on the part of the American people, a result of people growing tired of war. In the final analysis, who are the cowards here?”

I don’t buy the tired of war business, and believe it is overused. Yes we would all love peace in our time, but it ain’t gonna happen as long as we are the cowards he writes of in this article.

We became cowards at the influence of the Leftist encroachment of our Educational Institutions, our MSM, and our Governments from National to localities.

We are the cowards that went into the polling booths and pulled the lever, connected the lines, punched the holes next to Obama’s name all in fear of being called, or thought of as “Rascist”.

It’s for a stupid reason we are losing our country. The Left.

[jonrick46]

I am becoming convinced that as hard as we try to convince our fellow Americans that the DemonRATs are rushing this nation on a train ride to disaster, they will never listen. America needs to be in the belly of the whale before they realize it is time to call Houston for a “little problem.” I hope at that time there will be those with the knowledge of where we went wrong and how to fix it ready to take up the mantle when that whale vomits America back up.

[Reaganesque]

You’ve got to have defined set of morals in order to have moral courage. Today’s liberal leadership is therefore incapable of moral outrage.

[chiefqc]

There is only one thing about the TOTUS that everyone needs to know to be able to know where he stands:

IT IS ALL ABOUT HIM, FIRST, LAST AND ALWAYS.