We are a house divided against itself, we have become two Americas with all which that implies and such a divide, in the end, will be resolved one way or the other and come November, of this year and in 2012 we will remember.
“So what the hell do these conservatives want out of Obama? And does it matter if Obama throws some leaves on a tomb?
—David Corn “
YES, you jerkoff!
Interestingly, another thread contains Star Parker's commentary on that very subject, to which I added the following post, which includes Parker's Lincoln quotation:
"Abraham Lincoln summed up American politics over 150 years ago that is as accurate and relevant today as it was then: 'In this age, and in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.'”
And America's Founders identified the public sentiment at the time of the nation's founding as being a passion for liberty. John Adams stated:
"The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people."
Of the Declaration of Independence, its writer, Thomas Jefferson said it represented the American mind."
The so-called "progressives" never have represented "the American mind." What they represent are regressive ideas that are as old as the history of civilization. Their ideas were present in the feudal lords, the Kings, and the Slave Masters: that is, that some imperfect people in positions of power over other people are able to make better decisions than all the other imperfect people.
What Americans understood in 1776 and 1787, and were taught to believe until the "progressives" censored their school books and public places was that individual liberty was preferable to slavery, whether it was to a monarch or to a group of people in government.
A passion for liberty must be restored to its rightful place in "the American mind" of 2010. Else, American liberty, as provided and protected by the U. S. Constitution, may vanish from the earth, and, with it, the hopes of enslaved persons all over the world.
The "progressives" may claim they can provide a utopian existence, but they cannot point to a single instance where their policies have provided liberty, opportunity, and prosperity. As Joseph Sobran wrote in a column back in the 1990's:
"The other side (the Left) may argue that the country has improved over the last 40 years. But termites always think what they are doing to the house is "progress." The people who have to live in it may see it differently."
That statement explains the wide gap between today's "public sentiment" and the sentiment of the "termites" who are eroding the great "house" of liberty known as the Constitution of the United States of America.
Corn represents the "termites" who can't even see the house they are destroying bite by bite.
This is a damned if you do/damned if you don’t.
Obama shows his anti-American hatred by his telling action of snubbing Arlington National Cemetery on the sole day that exists to honor the sacrifice of all those who died serving our beloved nation. As C-in-C, he is a part of the US military, like it or not. A little respect on his part is required.
At the same time, I am personally glad that there is one less commie scum-sucking low-life punk setting foot on the hallowed ground of Arlington today. I always hated it when Clintoon would pretend to be honoring the fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, all the while his mind was on his next BJ or coke hit.
You can’t make an anti-American love his country just by making him show up for some dog and pony show on a day of honor.
It does not matter what Obama does. Any political gesture that that America hating phony makes will by empty and useless. Any words that he reads from a teleprompter will be meaningless and false.
Obama and the rest of the Democrats despise our our veterans and consider those who have sacrificed for our country to be irrelevant and want them marginalized as much as possible.
However, it matters very much when the Commander in Chief regards honoring those who have given their lives for our country to be beneath him. It matters that he considers it less important as visiting his thug friends in Chicago.
The arrogant, corrupt politicians owe everything they have to the sacrifices of patriotic Americans. They can at least take the time to recognize that sacrifice and pretend to be grateful.
Any media event Obama would engage in on Memorial Day would be nothing but hypocrisy. But it is said that hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. Obama and the Democrats have never sacrificed for our country and they are not patriotic. However, as empty and phony as the tribute would be, the Commander in Chief has a duty to honor those who gave their lives for America.
Yaa...the parasitic class...versus the rest of us....