The Ugly Un-American

Rick Santorum points out what many people know but are either too afraid, or aren't permitted to say. Obama ain't "as American as apple pie" and all that.

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. His nomination of former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh to be the State Department's top lawyer constitutes further evidence of his disdain for American values.

It's sad really. And critics of Obama critics now use the birth certificate issue to re-direct these criticisms of Obama. Either that, or they simply pronounce you a racist. But neither race, nor wherever Obama was born have anything to do with it.

That this unaccomplished, smooth talking marketing gimmick made his way through the system without even divulging a college transcript all the way to the presidency is simply a statement on how bad things have gotten in this country.

Image over substance, the undermining of most everything that has been traditional in American life, to a longing to join up with Europe on its not so slow slide into socialism and moral decay - the embodiment of neo-liberalism, or statism - it's all there.

And many would be critics are too afraid to even speak out against it.

Is it a blip allowed by a series of events and a pathetic Republican candiate? Will America right itself coming out of the current economic calamity, or is this a major turning point in the decline of what was once the American empire?

I have no idea, only time will tell.

Oh, and I see Meghan McCain has a six figure book deal.

Why? Because America can never be too fat, or too stupid for the Left, I guess.

 

Comments

[Teleprompter Messiah]

Cheer up Dan. The gild IS off the lily. The independents in this country(otherwise known as low information voters) are starting to question Lightworker's transformative powers. Despite the triumphal rhetoric of the Left's goons and cretins this is still a center right country.

2010 will be a year of reckoning. 2012 a year of liberation.

[MarkJ]

Be of good cheer: I suspect in 2010 Americans will perform the political equivalent of what those courageous sailors of the "Maersk Alabama" have just done. Namely, retake their ship from the pirates, shove the rascals into a lifeboat, and then pitch it off the side.

However, in a twist, if the pirates take "Cap'n Obama" with them, voters will just say, "Keep him. Now he's YOUR problem."

[Lala]

We are becoming the laughing stock of the world. BowObama is a disgrace.

"Our current president sent law enforcement. The US Navy is standing watch as the Captain and hostages are adrift in a lifeboat. It quickly became obvious that this administration, learning nothing from Clinton’s failures, is going to treat this act of terrorism as a law enforcement matter. In fact, Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that he has not yet decided whether to “prosecute” the pirates.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, displaying yet again her legendary incompetence, laughed about the incident when asked about it in Morocco, along with providing the traditional leftist blather about the world having to work together to solve the pirate problem. One can only imagine how Captain Phillips’ family and friends felt hearing Hillary cackle about their loved one’s ordeal. The administration’s cowardly message is unambiguous: this depraved act of terror against United States citizens is to be treated as a criminal act "

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/10103

[Anonymet]

When I saw The One bow to a muslim king, I knew that I had looked into his heart. Not that he is a muslim, but that he is not American in his values. An American can be of any religion, but any real American knows we fought a revolution so that every citizen can stand as an equal with any king.

It was either trained impulse or calculated show by Obama when he bent at his waist in obeisance, it was a disgusting display and a betrayal of our Founders.

He is an empty shell.

[John]

But the fact is that America WAS arrogant these past eight years, and apologizing for Bush's mistakes is a big step in improving relations around the world. We need other countries on board with us to help solve the big problems of the world, and thankfully, that is now starting to happen, under the leadership of our President.

Most Americans would tell you the same thing, so I guess that means we're all "un-American" according to you. But I would argue that by embracing the worst values, like arrogance, and rejecting the best values, like humility, it is you who are un-American.

[Ronald Chambers]

Someone needs to go out there and get those four Orangutans before Obama surrenders the United States to them....

[Dan Riehl]

John - if you want better International relations, you should try paying for foreign hookers. Might be your only shot.

[bgates]

the fact is that America WAS arrogant these past eight years

Arrogant enough to prefer freedom to slavery, even slavery to such wonderful enlightened creatures as the Europeans. Arrogant enough to think Afghanistan and Iraq deserved a chance to share our freedom even if John and the French wanted them kept quiescent under tyranny. Arrogant enough to defend the greatest, freest, most prosperous nation in the history of the world.

Grovel to foreign tyrants, John. Bow to them. They know as well as you do that you don't deserve their respect, but if you fawn enough they might restrain their contempt enough to endure your presence.

"[G]o from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!"

[Jim Treacher]

"But the fact is that America WAS arrogant these past eight years, and apologizing for Bush's mistakes is a big step in improving relations around the world."

I'm guessing you're not planning a boat trip to Somalia anytime soon.

"We need other countries on board with us to help solve the big problems of the world"

They have been. And we have been.

[Jim Treacher]

And you guys have complained about it the whole time.

[jrr]

Barry the boy king-philosopher, is just what Euro-wimps like and wanted in a US President. A soft, femininzed, smooth talking lawyer who doesn't have the love, nor the backbone to stick up for his own country (quite possibly because his family connection to the USA is so thin and questionable).

Arrogrant? Oh geez, give me a break. Because Rumsfeld once gave France and Germany a little zinger by calling them "old Europe"? Geez, how feminized society has become when that zinger is blown out of proportion and made into a major issue.

We were at war with Iraq ever since 1991. We have been in a clandestine war with Iran ever since 1979. And the Community Organizer is gonna resolve all these issues with the power of his mixed race smile?

Don't make me laugh. What Barry will do is what he is doing: Selling out our country to the world. Others around the world love the USA when we are weak and on our knees; when we're strong, they resent us. Always has been, always will be.