Posted by
Steve on Thursday, September 24, 2009 2:51:44 PM
Our President has raised or lowered (depending on your point of view) denigrating America to the world to an art form. His latest was to the United Nations. He must think that it is cute to denigrate America in front of people that spend their time tearing down all that America stands for. As for me, it grates on my nerves to have any American, especially our President, denigrate American in front of foreigners.
My attitude is this: in a political argument within the United States anything goes. That means that you can say whatever you want about America and I will defend to the death your right to say it, no matter how wrong you are. But, in a situation where foreigners are involved, all bets are off. There are protocols to be met and standards to uphold. The first among those is that to foreigners or on foreign soil, you do not speak ill of the United States. I know that with the 24 hour news cycle anything said by a President is known all around the world within seconds. But, if it is a domestic political contest, I still stand by the rule that you can say whatever you want. I am very 19th century about that sort of thing.
What grates about denigrating the United States to the United Nations is that it plays into the hands of the communist dictators like Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez. They say that kind of thing all the time. Nobody believes them because they can see for themselves that it is not true. But, when an American President says the same thing, it lends credence to the words of the lying dictators.
One other thing that makes absolutely no sense to me is the situation in Honduras. They had a President who wanted to be a dictator like Hugo Chavez. The legislature, courts and military said that would not happen and threw him out. The legislature, courts and military followed the Honduran Constitution in throwing out the dictator. The communist dictators in the hemisphere protested the ouster of Zelaya and called it a coup. Barack Obama picked up the cry from the communist dictators and declared the constitutionally legal ouster of Zelaya to be a coup. This is crazy. We are aligned with the communist dictators and against the cause of freedom. It should be exactly the opposite of that situation. We have now forced Zelaya back into the country. He is being housed at the Brazilian Embassy until things can be worked out. Even the communist leaning Brazilians know that Zelaya is a thug and are giving Zelaya the cold shoulder. I am just afraid that we will force Honduras to throw out their Constitution and take a communist dictator.
Glenn Beck has been having a series of shows on the people that surround Barack Obama. Since we do not know much about Obama, the only way to know much about him is to know who he associates with. Most of the people that are in his inner circle have some ties directly or indirectly to communism or Marxism. In my mind, those are two sides of the same coin. Since that is the inner core of people working around Obama, can’t we make the jump and say that Obama leans heavily toward the Marxist philosophy. Looking at what Obama is saying and doing would also lead one to believe that Obama is at least leaning heavily toward the Marxist philosophy. My opinion is that he is a Marxist. But that is my opinion, not necessarily a true fact.
As Glenn Beck pointed out on his show yesterday, Barack Obama has all the parts set up to fundamentally change America, if we do not find out what he is doing. Unfortunately for Obama, we have started to figure out what he is doing. Because we are starting to figure out what he is doing, we are starting to fight back against the onslaught of socialist programs. Because of that push back by the American people, we just may regain the America that we had for over 200 years. Even catching it this early, we gave up a lot of ground. That will have to be reclaimed to get America back. The conservative American has awakened. The time for the conservative American to take back this country is coming in November 2010. Then, it will take a lot of hard slogging to get America back on the right track. We would have to rid ourselves of all these socialist programs, one at a time. That will take time and will involve a lot of yelling and stamping of feet. It will be worth it in the end, but hard to take at the time. I hope to be around to see America back in the saddle as the greatest nation on the face of the earth. That is where she belongs and where she should stay. Obama is wrong to apologize for America.