Posted by
RME KRNL on Tuesday, June 09, 2009 2:06:24 AM
I didn't support him or vote for him but respected his win and wished him the best for the sake of all of us. But any U.S. president who doesn't respect my country, which he has been elected to not only lead but whose constitutional duty it is to also protect and defend, doesn't deserve my respect.
Twice now, as a candidate and then as president, Barack Obama has visited Europe. And twice now, he has tried to make himself popular with Europeans at the expense of talking down his predecessor and this country while on foreign soil.
Talking down your predecessor, either while he is still the sitting president and you are not, or once you are and he is a former president, is not only a breach of custom but also unseemly and lacking in class, even if done at home, and is especially so if done before a world audience while abroad. (Reference: Jimmy Carter.)
But Obama, not satisfied with continuing his Bush-bashing and America-apologizing, went even further on his last European visit by additionally pandering to Muslims (a) by using his whole name, to include Hussein (I guess it's okay when he does it or now that he's been elected -- just nobody was supposed to do it during the campaign), (b) by failing to bow to the queen of our strongest ally Britain but deeply bowing to a Muslim Saudi king, and (c) by saying that America is not a Christian nation but merely a diverse and religiously tolerant nation of "citizens."
Yes, we are a culturally and ethnically diverse nation, as well as a religiously tolerant one. But, oh, how the liberals love that word "diversity" -- and Obama is a liberal. After all, they hang all sorts of programs on it and hinge all sorts of spending on it. "We must do this for the sake of diversity." And blah, blah, blah. But the rest of what he said is absolute BS! And if you have any doubts about what BS means, you could also substitute horse hockey, moose manure or donkey dung -- just to be clear.
First, his allusion to our simply being a nation of "citizens" made me think of the French Revolution, although even there the preferred address of "Citizen" only lasted for a while following their revolution in the late 1700s. In fact, perhaps the Communist address of "Comrade" was actually later used for longer and among larger populations in other countries. Second, doesn't our own president know our own history? And doesn't he think the Europeans, as well as others, know it too? Third, although all of our Founding Fathers were not Christians (some were Deists and some may even have been agnostics or atheists), the majority of them were Christians, and our founding documents are replete with Christian references. Fourth, the writings and speeches of most of our Founding Fathers, and most of our presidents since them, are also replete with Christian references. Fifth, with over 90 percent of Americans professing to be Christians of one denomination or another, saying we are not a Christian nation is just a stretch too far. And Obama simply saying something is so doesn't make it so. (Depending on how much of the Obama-hype he actually believes about himself, I honestly sometimes imagine Obama in the Oval Office, privately practicing waving his hand over a goblet, trying to turn water into wine and becoming frustrated that he, as The One, can't make it happen yet.)
And now, having previously said that we are not a Christian nation, on the eve of his recent visit to the Middle East, he has now said that we are a Muslim nation. No, we're not, Mr. President! What's the matter with you? Are you just totally out of touch with reality? Again, your saying it's so doesn't make it so, no matter who you think you are. It's like Obama is trying to tell us, and the world, don't believe your lying eyes or the facts, just listen to me.
There are about two million people of the Muslim faith living in our country of, depending on whose figures you use, a total population of 300 to 330 million. Even using the 300 million figure, that means that Muslims comprise about .006 percent of our total population. How do you get from that to saying that we are a Muslim nation? The shorthand of describing a country deals with its predominant characteristics. Otherwise, you could equally say, for example, that we're a gay nation, although gays are also a small percentage of the total population.
So, Mr. President, whether you like it or not, whether you admit it or not, whether you say it or not, whether you wish it weren't so and want to change it or not, our nation is predominantly a Christian, conservative, religiously tolerant, culturally and ethnically diverse nation -- and the greatest, richest, most generous, most powerful one that's ever existed, mainly because of all those factors.
You don't need to apologize for it or try to misrepresent it as something it's not just to pander to this or that world audience. It's your job to protect and defend it -- against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The solemn oath of office you took, both initially and in your do-over, states that you are to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." And implicit in that is that you do the same for the country and her people. So, just do your job and represent us as who we really are.
And no apologies or fabricated demographics are necessary, thank you.