Perhaps you could provide a quote or three that illustrate what you perceive.
In context.
I will try to encapsulate as best I can.
I would like to have heard from the President:l. Why the open border policy 2. Why the continuation of the Fed. Dept. of Ed. when our higher institutions are turning out hate mongers 3. Why the tolerance of disbanding of Christiantity while the teaching of Islam is encouraged in elementary and secondary schools. 4. A progress report on the war in Iraq. 5. The problem of anarchy in our own country. I suppose I expected more a state of the nation speech in view of where we find ourselves these days.
1. >From the day of our Founding, we have proclaimed that every man and woman on this earth has rights, snd dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image of the Maker of Heaven and earth.< As Christians this is true. Ideally, it would be wonderful if everyone felt the same way about eachother. We are hated throughout the world. Our form of government is even hated within our own country! As Christians we are in the world, but we are not of the world. And as Christians we are hated.
Yes, we should promote freedom by example not by force. We have always been a beacon on the hill and the world hasn't beat a path to democracy. As they say, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Although we should not impose our will on others, we should remain forever alert, and never naive.
2. >We will persistently clarify the choice before every ruler and nation: The moral choice between oppression, which is always wrong, and freedom, which is eternally right< This should go over big with Muslims and Communists! Threats are always taken kindly!
3. >We will encourage reform in other governments by making clear that success in our relations will require the decent treatment of their own people.< They say that people deserve the government they have, and that is true, unless they are kept in complete poverty and starvation. It would be best if the entire world together would change these terrible conditions, thus the possible amalgamation of governments? What is the job of the UN if not to oversee these kinds of problems? Why should it fall on the American taxpayer to try to do what only God can do?