The New New Deal By Charles R. Kesler
Adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on February 1, 2010, during a four-day conference on “The New Deal,” co-sponsored by the Center for Constructive Alternatives and the Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series.
EXCERPT Unlike most Americans, President Obama still bristles at any suggestion that our nation is better or even luckier than other nations. To be blunt, he despises the notion that Americans consider themselves special among the peoples of the world. This strikes him as the worst sort of ignorance and ethnocentrism, which is why it was so difficult for him to decide to wear an American flag lapel pin when he started running for president, even though he knew it was political suicide to refuse wearing it.
As President Obama hinted in his Berlin speech during the campaign, he really thinks of himself as a multiculturalist, as a citizen of the world, first, and only incidentally as an American. To put it differently, he regards patriotism as morally and intellectually inferior to cosmopolitanism.
And, of course, he is never so much a citizen of the world as when defending the world’s environment against mankind’s depredations, and perhaps especially America’s depredations.
In general, the emotionalist defense of the earth—think of Al Gore—is now a vital part of the liberalism of our day. It’s a kind of substitute for earlier liberals’ belief in progress.
Although his own election—and secondarily liberalism’s achievements over the past century or so—help to redeem America in his view, Obama remains, in many ways, profoundly disconnected from his own land.
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Thanks for the links. I will definately check it out.
Found something else today snooping around on New Black Panther sites and groups. It is pretty shocking. They are planning war on ‘the cracker’. They are basically calling for Panafrican supremacy. It’s a black supremacy site. Vile language warning. The guy is railing about the BP oil spill,that it is ‘cracker’s fault’. It’s typical Van Jones stuff as far as linking the black militants to the environmental marxist groups. The guy talks about ‘crackers poisoning the black people’s food and water...blahblahblah. I haven’t watched it all yet. One thing is certain..these people are inciting violence and it’s hate speech that the NAACP should be asked about in light of their phoney race baiting attacks on the Tea Party.
Check it out: (there are 5 parts) This is their title not mine.At the end of video 5 it actually looks like these black militants were filming in the middle of mall!! Unbelievable and moronic stuff being said all through the video...lol.
ARMAGEDDON 2010: WHEN N@#$*Z STRIKE BACK!! PT.2 - SaraSutenSeti Black Power Cartel
http://www.rbgtube.com/play.php?vid=7648