Posted on 07/14/2008 6:22:29 AM PDT by neverdem
First there was the flag pin. Barack Obama refused to wear it. Then he refused to put hand to heart during the national anthem. He sat in a pew while his pastor trashed America. He explained to his rich pals in San Francisco that the hard working folks in Middle America "cling to guns or religion” because they are “bitter” over the tough economic times.
Now Obama tells us that we shouldn’t worry about immigrants learning English; our focus should be on getting our children to learn Spanish. He added, "It’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is merci beaucoup."
American soldiers are fighting, and dying in battles thousands of miles from their homes, American medical personnel are caring for refugees and orphans throughout the world, and the American people are more generous than any on earth, ready to help the sick and needy wherever they live, and Barack Obama is embarrassed because his countrymen don’t speak French? Who is this guy? Born in the greatest nation on earth and too embarrassed to wear a flag pin or honor our anthem with a simple gesture. Uncomfortable with gun loving, Bible thumping, hard working, English speaking people who are at the heart of what is good about his country, but entirely at ease -- for years -- in a church with a pastor who preached hatred of America.
With his latest commentary on America Obama has now given us five separate and distinct occasions that demonstrate his contempt for this nation. When following a script, he says the right things but when speaking extemporaneously he proves himself to be an elitist who is above the patriotism thing. He does not appreciate that our language tightly knits us as a people and our shared traditions, values, history and heroes is our common culture, our identity, the core of want it means to be an American.
I learned young from my uncle Regis, a Word War II veteran, an American hero we called Uncle Peachie.
In the Second World War Uncle Peachie found himself in North Africa. They would fight all day in the desert and push forward as far as they could. At night they would sleep wherever they found themselves. He spent months in the desert, at age 19, learning first hand the horrors of war. When word came that they had won this front the troops headed to town to participate in a victory parade. Preferring to watch rather than be in the parade Uncle Peachie found a second floor balcony and waited. As the procession of jeeps, tanks and soldiers turned the corner and came his way Uncle Peachie set his eyes on Old Glory for the first time in months and was overwhelmed with emotion. The American flag, he told me sent a tingling sensation through his body from toes to head and, he told me, he has never seen an American flag since that day without this sensation repeating itself all over again.
My uncle came back from the war and with his Silver Star in hand traveled to the home of the buddy he left behind in Africa. There he told the parents about the final days of their son’s life and gave them his medal. He knew what it meant to be an American.
“Patriotism,” my brother Pat writes, “is a passionate attachment to one’s own country, its land, its people, its past, its heroes, literature, language, traditions, culture, and customs.”
Patriotism is what my uncle felt and what Americans everywhere feel when they see the flag, hear the anthem, or see an American soldier. They so love America that when reminded that they are among the privileged few who to call America home their eyes fill and their hearts swell.
It is this deep love for country that makes Americans willing to sacrifice and die for it. It is an appreciation of our greatness that places an obligation upon us to fight, protect, and preserve this nation, as those who went before us did. Being an American is so much more than being born here -- it is unique experience, an unparalleled privilege, a gift from God.
Our President needs to know this, in his mind and in his heart. He must be so proud to be an American that we will all know that he will be committed to keeping this country the greatest on earth. But to do that you have to believe it. This is where Barack Obama comes up short.
Thank you very much for the link to your missive!
That is a great article and states very eloquently what is wrong with Obama. Obama may think he can fool us, but any American who is paying attention sees right through him. Let’s just hope that enough Americans are paying attention to the purveyor of hope and change. Can a barrage of carefully orchestrated propaganda really sell this poser to the American people?
Nice piece by Bay Buchanan. Does make Obama seem ‘raahther cosmopolitan’.
Obama Embarassed by America ping
Bookmark Obama may be a bastard
(I’ve GOT to be able to find these articles when I need them!!!)
“As an American who loves this country, I am embarrassed by an utterly ignorant electorate who can not see this candidate is only about 1 inch in depth. There is nothing there and he more than epitomizes the American Idol public than an informed critical thinking politically involved electorate. The guy is an empty suit sock puppet.”
You have it all wrong....he’s articulate, his children are adorable, he and his wife went to Harvard, he turned down a great job in a law firm to be a politician, he stepped all over people to get into a State Senate seat in Chicago (means he’ll fight for you), he and his wife were community activists with criminals(means they can work with anybody).... He’s for Hope and Change.
NOW IF THAT DOESNT QUALIFY HIM WHAT DOES?....(sarcasm off)
A superb graphic - and the New Yorker yet!
I can’t research this at work, but this morning as I turned on the radio, Brian Sussman (KSFO, 560, San Francisco) was taking about BO mentioning that BO, while in college,was in Pakistan with two muslim friends for three weeks. Does anyone know if this was in his book?
I knew it was too good to be true.
Besides, based on the product they are producing, America's public schools are incapable of teaching even our first language.
That is a great article and states very eloquently what is wrong with Obama. Obama may think he can fool us, but any American who is paying attention sees right through him. Let’s just hope that enough Americans are paying attention to the purveyor of hope and change. Can a barrage of carefully orchestrated propaganda really sell this poser to the American people?
I agree, this is a great article. And I think you nail it quite well when you say (true)Americans see through him. But I question whether it really matters anymore. What I’m trying to point out here is how we ended up with these Bozo’s out of the large pool of candidates that we started with. You further point out: “Can a barrage of carefully orchestrated propaganda really sell this poser to the American people?” Isn’t that exactly the purpose of Mass Media ? If you spew enough B/S (true or false) to the masses long enough it won’t matter, as everything over time will become the truth. The Truth doesn’t stand a chance against Mass Media.
Well said.
BTW, anyone know just how many languages in which Obama is fluent?
As I see it, Obama is right to be embarrassed at how poorly government-run schools are educating our young people. Time was that every youngster in the nation was taught at least some amount of Latin, which is the essential framework for all Romance languages including French, and the fundamental key to an intimate understanding of our own language as well as Western Civilization as a whole.
It’s embarrassing what havoc government has wrought upon our nation’s educational system, and that’s a fact.
BTTT
“As I see it, Obama is right to be embarrassed at how poorly government-run schools are educating our young people.”
Hmmm.....The way I see it, the only reason he has to be embarrassed of our public socialist educational system; is that it currently doesn’t yet have the powers nessesary to force ALL of it’s socialistic ideals as much as it wants. Put him in the White House and that will surely change. And that will be a Fact as well !
I wonder if he thinks Mexicans who only speak Spanish should be embarrassed.
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