A Tale of Two Americas On Memorial Day 2010

So what the hell do these conservatives want out of Obama? And does it matter if Obama throws some leaves on a tomb?

Memorial Day. Those of us old enough to remember might recall a parent or grandparent who referred to it as “Decoration Day.” We might recall as well that “Memorial Day,” was not on the last Monday in May, serving as an endcap for a three day weekend of sales and vacations, but instead was observed on May 30, no matter what day of the week that was.

It started shortly after the Civil War when General Logan, who was part of the forces occupying the South, supposedly observed Southern women laying spring flowers on the graves of both Confederate and Union dead. Logan wrote of it, urged a national day of commemoration and thus “Decoration Day” became a tradition in nearly all states.

After World War One, the fallen of that conflict became part of the memorial services as well.

After World War Two, with hundreds of thousands of new graves to tend, the tradition evolved that “Decoration Day,” would be a day of national commemoration for those who gave “the last full measure of devotion,” and that “Armistice Day,” November 11, would become a day of honoring all veterans who served.

And thus it was until 1971 when Congress, creating three day weekends for government employees, including themselves, reordered Memorial Day to the last Monday of the month.

Thanks for posting this comment from Corn, because it represents the wide gap between those who now govern America and the public sentiment of most Americans.

Interestingly, another thread contains Star Parker's commentary on that very subject, to which I added the following post, which includes Parker's Lincoln quotation:

"Abraham Lincoln summed up American politics over 150 years ago that is as accurate and relevant today as it was then: 'In this age, and in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.'”

And America's Founders identified the public sentiment at the time of the nation's founding as being a passion for liberty. John Adams stated:

"The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people."

Of the Declaration of Independence, its writer, Thomas Jefferson said it represented the American mind."

The so-called "progressives" never have represented "the American mind." What they represent are regressive ideas that are as old as the history of civilization. Their ideas were present in the feudal lords, the Kings, and the Slave Masters: that is, that some imperfect people in positions of power over other people are able to make better decisions than all the other imperfect people.

What Americans understood in 1776 and 1787, and were taught to believe until the "progressives" censored their school books and public places was that individual liberty was preferable to slavery, whether it was to a monarch or to a group of people in government.

A passion for liberty must be restored to its rightful place in "the American mind" of 2010. Else, American liberty, as provided and protected by the U. S. Constitution, may vanish from the earth, and, with it, the hopes of enslaved persons all over the world.

The "progressives" may claim they can provide a utopian existence, but they cannot point to a single instance where their policies have provided liberty, opportunity, and prosperity. As Joseph Sobran wrote in a column back in the 1990's:

"The other side (the Left) may argue that the country has improved over the last 40 years. But termites always think what they are doing to the house is "progress." The people who have to live in it may see it differently."

That statement explains the wide gap between today's "public sentiment" and the sentiment of the "termites" who are eroding the great "house" of liberty known as the Constitution of the United States of America.

Corn represents the "termites" who can't even see the house they are destroying bite by bite.

This is a damned if you do/damned if you don’t.

Obama shows his anti-American hatred by his telling action of snubbing Arlington National Cemetery on the sole day that exists to honor the sacrifice of all those who died serving our beloved nation. As C-in-C, he is a part of the US military, like it or not. A little respect on his part is required.

At the same time, I am personally glad that there is one less commie scum-sucking low-life punk setting foot on the hallowed ground of Arlington today. I always hated it when Clintoon would pretend to be honoring the fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, all the while his mind was on his next BJ or coke hit.

You can’t make an anti-American love his country just by making him show up for some dog and pony show on a day of honor.

“So what the hell do these conservatives want out of Obama? And does it matter if Obama throws some leaves on a tomb?—David Corn”

It does not matter what Obama does. Any political gesture that that America hating phony makes will by empty and useless. Any words that he reads from a teleprompter will be meaningless and false.

Obama and the rest of the Democrats despise our our veterans and consider those who have sacrificed for our country to be irrelevant and want them marginalized as much as possible.

However, it matters very much when the Commander in Chief regards honoring those who have given their lives for our country to be beneath him. It matters that he considers it less important as visiting his thug friends in Chicago.

The arrogant, corrupt politicians owe everything they have to the sacrifices of patriotic Americans. They can at least take the time to recognize that sacrifice and pretend to be grateful.

Any media event Obama would engage in on Memorial Day would be nothing but hypocrisy. But it is said that hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. Obama and the Democrats have never sacrificed for our country and they are not patriotic. However, as empty and phony as the tribute would be, the Commander in Chief has a duty to honor those who gave their lives for America.

I agree with your post, Maybe when a nation gets over a certain level of population ... it becomes so corporate and no longer the government that recognizes and promotes individual ownership, freedom, liberty, etc., obviously we are being strangled by entitlements, the disregard of the United States of America Constitution, corruption in Washington,evil intentions by people in power that are deliberately taking America down the road to Communism Socialism, and Marxism/Fascism,

What is happening now is not random mistakes by the unqualified members of government ... rather it is a hard and fast shove to “totally change America fundamentally.”
Reason ans persuasion are cast aside and crisis after crisis is being used to do what normally could never be accomplished in America.

We can not continue to just accept with disgruntlement whatever it is they are doing day after day. We must get our state Senators and Representatives, Governors, etc. to FEAR FOR THEIR POSITIONS and the stop spending, cut back entitlements, reduce all departments budgets by 20% within the year and get real about bringing us back on course, etc. We can not continue to give billions in foreign aid when it is all borrowed money (that we must borrow to have, in order to give).

Sorry for the whole tangent I went off on here.

God bless, America, cast out the evil ones in our government, and return us to a nation that worships You and is thankful for the lives You have given us, in Jesus name, amen.

Immigration legislation is looming behind the scenes.

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We are a house divided against itself, we have become two Americas with all which that implies and such a divide, in the end, will be resolved one way or the other and come November, of this year and in 2012 we will remember.