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Of Course Barack Obama Loves America, He Just Doesn’t Like It Much
Townhall.com ^ | February 22, 2015 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 02/22/2015 4:37:29 AM PST by Kaslin

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani caused an uproar this week when he questioned whether President Barack Obama loves America. Progressive, er, I mean “objective” journalists were beside themselves over the prospect of a Republican saying about a Democratic president the things Democrats and the media routinely said about President George W. Bush, or members of Congress during the government shutdown. Such nerve!

The fact of the matter is Obama does love America…he just doesn’t like it very much.

What would your significant other say if you went to them right now and said, “Honey, I love you. In fact, I love you so much I want to fundamentally transform you?” After the laughter stopped and they realized you were serious, I imagine it would begin with expletives and escalate from there.

Now, you may love this person, but it’s pretty clear the person is not your biggest fan if he or she wants to “fundamentally transform” you. Remember, fundamental transformation is not “you could lose a few pounds” or “I wish you’d quick smoking;” it is a swipe at their essence.

In 2008, Barack Obama campaigned on the idea of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” I suspect many, if not most, of his supporters never gave that phrase a second thought. But it was the core not only of his campaign, but of his professional life.

Community organizers don’t protest a system they think needs tweaking. They protest when they view the system as fundamentally flawed, founded on a corrupt premise and in need of replacing. People don’t take to the streets to add a couple of minor regulations to a capitalist system; they want to tear it down because they deem it “unjust.”

Progressive community organizers don’t try to solve a problem, because any given problem is not something that can be addressed when the underlying system is the real problem.

As Obama put it when he was secretly taped at an organizing meeting during his activist days, “More broadly, we progressive community organizers exploit the anger that festers when people feel that injustice and corruption leave them with no chance of improving their lives.”

Can you believe that?

It’s not true. Obama actually wrote that line in a Los Angeles Times column this week, only where I wrote “we progressive community organizers” the president wrote “groups like al Qaeda and ISIL.”

If you read the first statement and thought the president could have said that, you’re not that far from where Rudy was coming from. That either version is believable is telling.

The line I edited sounds like something Obama would have said. It’s not hateful to say it. It’s not racist. It’s just a fact. And it being a fact is why so many on the left have accused Giuliani of being a hater or a racist – they don’t want people to think too hard about it.

The president has said some positive things about the country, but he’s said many more negative ones. To deflect criticism of radical Islam, he brought up slavery in the United States. Slavery here ended 150 years ago, yet Barack Obama invoked it to draw moral equivalence between us and ISIS, a group actually currently enslaving human beings. You can either think he drew that comparison because he doesn’t like both very much, or he’s a fan of both. Neither option is particularly flattering.

When Obama speaks positively of the country, people who pay attention to what he says know to wait for the other shoe to drop. It’s like, “So and so is one of my best friends, but … “ And what comes after the ‘but’ is all you need to know.

Like a parent who loves his kid but thinks the kid is fat, stupid and/or lazy – the president does not like this country a whole lot. That’s fine; he doesn’t have to. But he shouldn’t be leading what he has such a problem with…unless he wants to fundamentally change it, which he does.

So the real problem isn’t that the president doesn’t like the country very much, it’s that so many people voted for, and still support, a man who doesn’t like the country very much.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: america; barack0bama; patriotsm; rudyguiliani
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1 posted on 02/22/2015 4:37:30 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

If one considers Obola is an Indonesian Moslem who gave
up his American citizenship for a college grant,
so much of his treason becomes understandable.

At least to Americans who are not EXEMPT and on the take.


2 posted on 02/22/2015 4:41:20 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Kaslin

Obama never would have been possible without the support of the mainstream media.


3 posted on 02/22/2015 4:41:31 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: Kaslin

Mark Levin nails it when he says that you don’t attempt to “fundamentally transform” something that you love.


4 posted on 02/22/2015 4:42:41 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot

bingo


5 posted on 02/22/2015 4:43:27 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Kaslin

He loves America.

He just doesn’t like Americans or our form of government.


6 posted on 02/22/2015 4:46:05 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek
He just doesn’t like Americans or our form of government.

Or white people.

7 posted on 02/22/2015 4:49:39 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Kaslin

Devastating.


8 posted on 02/22/2015 4:51:05 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Kaslin

The fact of the matter is Obama does love America…
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The fact of the matter is Rudytootie is looking to be picked for a job as a running mate.


9 posted on 02/22/2015 4:56:27 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Kaslin
The president has said some positive things about the country...

Name me one. Try as I may, I can't find a single Obama quote that unequivically praises America. Seriously.

10 posted on 02/22/2015 4:57:37 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: Kaslin

Mullah Obama is a muslim terrorist. There is no patriotism, only only islam


11 posted on 02/22/2015 5:08:29 AM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Kaslin

In the same way a tick loves a dog.


12 posted on 02/22/2015 5:08:48 AM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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One unkind comparison is to Obama and absent black fathers, who enjoy the process of creating children, but abhor the responsibility for having done so.

“This is good because I want this” seems to be Obama’s motto, “And I don’t care who gets hurt in the process.” “And it’s not my fault if it goes wrong, and I am outraged that anyone dares criticize my brilliance.”

Obama in a nutshell. Oppressive, arrogant, dictatorial, dismissive and egotistical.


13 posted on 02/22/2015 5:13:35 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Kaslin

O-hole loves America, eh Derek? Name a single thing the POS has done that has had the intent of improving the country or benefiting its citizens. Just one...


14 posted on 02/22/2015 5:14:52 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Kaslin

Then way that islam improves peoples lives is by putting the sword which will be used to subjugate and slaughter into the hands of the “missionary”.

islam doesn’t do anything for anyone else.


15 posted on 02/22/2015 5:26:00 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job..)
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To: Sirius Lee

That arrogant pos doesn’t like conservative black people either


16 posted on 02/22/2015 5:35:45 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: RetSignman
The fact of the matter is Rudytootie is looking to be picked for a job as a running mate.

And what proof do you have?

Rudy Guilitani spoke the truth, and you know it.

17 posted on 02/22/2015 5:39:51 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Labyrinthos

Neither can I and any other honest person


18 posted on 02/22/2015 5:44:31 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
And what comes after the ‘but’ is all you need to know.

There is an old axiom that states, "Anything that comes after 'BUT' is Bull Sheite".

19 posted on 02/22/2015 5:46:46 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Kaslin
More and more the Dem Party is comprised of committed leftists (like Obama) who firmly believe that if not for racist, "privileged", white males, people like Obama would have been running things for at least half our nation's history. The current theme of Dem Party politics is a gigantic crusade (ha ha) against reason and logic.

The great majority of what Americans enjoy today as the good life was created by those "evil" white males. Maybe it's time for a separation to teach them a lesson what life would be like with all the evil, white males

20 posted on 02/22/2015 5:47:38 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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