Posted on 07/06/2010 9:20:42 AM PDT by Nachum
It appears the President of the United States can't contain his disdain for America's historical roots. On Independence Day, instead of stressing the awesome concepts of the Declaration of Independence, Obama managed to turn a BBQ into an opportunity to disparage our founders, foster class warfare and further division.
On July 4th the Commander-in-Chief invited the military to a White House cookout and then used the occasion to skewer the Founding Fathers. Rather than depicting America as "one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all," once again Barack-the-great-divider separated America into factions and brought up a time in our history where, in his view, America lacked, "civil rights and voting rights, workers' rights and women's rights."
A casually dressed Obama, who couldn't make Memorial Day at Arlington Cemetery, appeared on the balcony high above the active-duty military and their families who were waving flags and wearing red, white and blue face paint. The President, with Michelle at his side, spoke to the group, saying that today may be Independence Day, but "Today we also celebrate all of you, the men and women of our armed forces, who defend this country we love."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It was never more obvious that his balcony remarks showed his lack of knowledge of the difference between celebrating he founding of our Nation along with the wisdom of the Founders versus Memorial Day which acknowledges the sacrifices of those who served and died to maintain the heritage of those Founders OR his disdain of the greatness of our heritage; perhaps because he knows it is not his heritage by either his father and stepfather or the communism on the other side of his family.
“We celebrate the principles that are timeless, tenets first declared by men of property and wealth...”
Those men pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor so you can be here screwing their work into the ground.
Most didn’t make it through with the first two.
Way to thank them, Bammy.
Reporter Complains That Obama Plane Is Smelly
http://wonkette.com/403402/reporter-complains-that-obama-plane-is-smelly
How much longer ... ?
I just cannot imagine that even some of the wives of military members, especially wives of officers, would want to be there...and even look at Michelle who dresses so disrespectfully toward them.
P.S. Why is it that Michelle always feels she has to be sleeveless? You do not see Barack or anyone else among the WH entourage with bare arms. In fact, in one picture I saw of them, Obama is wearing a winter jacket, and Michelle is sleeveless. What is she trying to prove...that she can be vulgar and have an in-your-face attitude and no one can tell her to stop. After all, telling Michelle the truth about her appearance, would be "racist."
I think the guy is kinda sweet on Venezuela.
The Obamas remind me of Charles and Diana, who I saw wave from a balcony one time. They did not end up very well.
So - rhetorical question - how come this insulting behavior is not getting a fraction of the attention that Michael Steele got this weekend!
defend this country we love...? whats this “we”?? When did Barry start loving this country??
We know Michelle started loving it when Barry won though.
Nice.
The Republicans don’t have the balls for impeachment, much less the trial that follows.
On the balcony like in a Soviet MayDay parade.
Most didn’t make it through with the first two.
Excellent post, thank you.
he has been giving a lot of speeches without a flag lately
Barack Obama doesn’t like American people. < /pDiddy >
EXCERPT:
Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men too-great enough to give fame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory.
They loved their country better than their own private interests; and, though this is not the highest form of human excellence, all will concede that it is a rare virtue, and that when it is exhibited, it ought to command respect. He who will, intelligently, lay down his life for his country, is a man whom it is not in human nature to despise. Your fathers staked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, on the cause of their country. In their admiration of liberty, they lost sight of all other interests.
They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was "settled" that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were "final;" not slavery and oppression. You may well cherish the memory of such men. They were great in their day and generation. Their solid manhood stands out the more as we contrast it with these degenerate times.
How circumspect, exact and proportionate were all their movements! How unlike the politicians of an hour! Their statesmanship looked beyond the passing moment, and stretched away in strength into the distant future. They seized upon eternal principles, and set a glorious example in their defence. Mark them!
Fully appreciating the hardships to be encountered, firmly believing in the right of their cause, honorably inviting the scrutiny of an on-looking world, reverently appealing to heaven to attest their sincerity, soundly comprehending the solemn responsibility they were about to assume, wisely measuring the terrible odds against them, your fathers, the fathers of this republic, did, most deliberately, under the inspiration of a glorious patriotism, and with a sublime faith in the great principles of justice and freedom, lay deep, the corner-stone of the national super-structure, which has risen and still rises in grandeur around you.
— Frederick Douglas, July 5th, 1852, Rochester, New York
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