Here is what John Kerry did
for the South Vietnamese children.
Imagine
what Kerry can do for our kids
Posted on 03/18/2004 7:37:48 AM PST by So Cal Rocket
Democrats bristle at the suggestion that they are out of touch with mainstream America. But their rhetorical reliance on opinion from outside the country -- whether it is John Kerry citing support from foreign leaders or Democratic activists citing Scandinavian jurisprudence as they try to topple marriage -- proves it. The more they alienate themselves from mainstream America, the more they rely on foreign cultural currents to push their agenda.
Modern Democrats are peculiar in American political history in that they actually brag about non-American support. This is a political boast the Founding Fathers and early Federalists would find puzzling if not shocking. Independence from foreign opinion and influence is one of the founding marks of America. The Federalist Papers contain chapters entitled "Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence." John Kerry's foreign-leaders-are-pulling-for-me talk would sound to the American founders like the beginnings of treason.
Democrats loudly emphasize their foreign support, then wonder why they are caricatured as the party that tends toward anti-Americanism. After it turns out that an accused traitor, Susan Lindauer, was a serial employee for Democrats -- hopping from the office of Rep. Peter Defazio to Rep. Ron Wyden's to Senator Carol Moseley Braun's to Rep. Zoe Lofgren's -- one would think the Democrats might show some reluctance to hawk foreign endorsements. But they don't. They consider them useful political props.
They rush to defend the veracity of Kerry's declaration of foreign support, as if the political problem is that it might be false when the real political problem is that it is true. Dem diplomat Richard Holbrooke's defense of Kerry -- "In the last six or seven months, I've been in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe. I've met with leaders in all of those regions, and they have overwhelmingly -- not unanimously but overwhelmingly -- said that they hope that there's a change in leadership" -- supplies Americans with an urgent reason not to vote for Kerry. He is more in tune with the views of foreign leaders than with mainstream America.
Bill Clinton, who has also discovered some Kerry endorsements amongst foreign leaders during his globe-trotting, was one of the pioneers of favorable foreign opinion as a Democratic political prop. When Clinton felt estranged from mainstream American opinion during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he relied on foreign opinion in support of him for solace. Clinton's surrogates would stress that foreign leaders supported Clinton and didn't care about his scandals. Clinton's surrogates treated this as argument-ending proof against impeachment.
The Democrats have twisted Thomas Jefferson's "decent respect for the opinions of mankind" into a respect for world opinion whenever it advances indecency. Since mainstream American opinion often cuts against their agenda, they have to turn to world opinion to advance it. This is not only a political tactic but an increasingly popular legal one for them, as they advance their agenda through the courts, often invoking foreign court rulings and foreign conventions to buttress their cases.
Just as Democratic politicians are telling the American people to take their political cue from foreign politicians, so Democratic-appointed judges like Stephen Breyer (and of course Republican-appointed ones like Sandra Day O'Connor) are encouraging their colleagues to take their cue from foreign judges. The Lawrence decision, which laid the groundwork for same-sex marriage, was based in part on rulings by the European Court of Human Rights.
"Our Constitution and how it fits into the governing documents of other nations, I think, will be a challenge for the next generations," said Breyer. In the Supreme Court's Grutter v. Bollinger decision, a case involving racial preferences, Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg used the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which calls for "special and concrete measures to ensure the adequate development and protection of certain racial groups," to shape their decision in favor of racial spoils.
"Our island or lone ranger mentality is beginning to change," Ginsburg said in a speech to the American Constitution Society, explaining the Supreme Court's trend toward relying on foreign jurisprudence. Justices, she said, "are becoming more open to comparative and international law perspectives."
Do Americans want their elections shaped by Spanish socialists and their jurisprudence shaped by Danish judges? Living in their own dream world, John Kerry and his invisible internationalist campaign co-chairmen must think they do.
They're becoming more attractive targets of impeachment movements, too.
Here is what John Kerry did
for the South Vietnamese children.
Imagine
what Kerry can do for our kids
I hope enough liberals begin to realize that the "Coalition of the Willing" is doing a better job of protecting the children of the world....
Those who would constantly tailor our foreign and domestic policies to the approval of others remind me of narcisscists.
They love the PLACE, the land, the trees, the animals, but they hate its capitalist mode of organization, and therefore consciously and constantly try to undermine it. They don't see themselves as unpatriotic, because they love the PLACE.
These people sicken me. I just hope that I can learn as well as every other sincere patriotic conservative American, how to answer the rhetorical arguments put out by the left.
I fear we have been far too congenial and accepting of this and we need to turn on the "attack machine".
Since the sixties the lefties have been infiltrating and infesting our education systems and our media, and are in good position to take this country down.
While we've been AT WORK, they've been AT WAR.
The best option that I can see to reverse the trend in media and education is to work in every way possible to let the market forces work, true supply and demand. In the media eliminate stuff like NPR government support, and in education break the NEA and other such crap.
Thanks, KP ! ...Modern Democrats are peculiar in American political history in that they actually brag about non-American support. This is a political boast the Founding Fathers and early Federalists would find puzzling if not shocking. Independence from foreign opinion and influence is one of the founding marks of America. The Federalist Papers contain chapters entitled "Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence." John Kerry's foreign-leaders-are-pulling-for-me talk would sound to the American founders like the beginnings of treason.
It has been going on longer than that. The American Communist party had designs to infiltrate unions, educational institutions and the print media. Is it not obvious that they had some success?
Now Clooney has a place when he leaves the country after Bush is re-elected.
Don't let the Statue of Liberty give you a wedgie on the way out.
She is like so tempted, you know.
ROFL !!
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