The President’s Paltry Patriotism

Seldom in American history, tumultuous as its pages may be, has the patriotism of a President been questioned. The Obama years, marked by a vigorous and consistent dispute about this very matter, stand in stark contrast.

The latest incarnation of this doubt came courtesy of former New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani on Thursday night.

“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani said during the dinner at the 21 Club, a former Prohibition-era speakeasy in midtown Manhattan. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”

The remarks prompted strong reaction from predictable quarters, with the mainstream media, Twitter and their progressive heroes seemingly taking turns to audition for apoplexy.

Cowed by political correctness, even many conservative talking heads tap-danced, querying the use of Giuliani’s language and suggesting it to be unhelpful to the Republican cause. Following the liberal playbook, few asked themselves if the statement was true, preferring to consider hurt feelings.

Culturally and rhetorically, President Obama bears little similarity to any of his Democratic predecessors, including the most recent, Bill Clinton. Who could imagine President Obama referring to America as “the indispensable nation”, or proclaiming that “nothing that is wrong with America cannot be cured by what is right about America” as the latter did at his 1993 inauguration?

While Democratic, President Clinton preserved a robust American identity, with an unapologetic belief in American exceptionalism and a heartland love of “Americana”. Even in criticism, he managed to praise.

There has been little in the current President’s actions or words in the last six years to suggest a comparable affection. From an international apology tour to equivalence on exceptionalism to anodyne words to describe evil, the President has perpetually scratched the proud American psyche.

Is this a matter of ideology, upbringing or personality? Giuliani suggests it to be a combination of all three, a theory corroborated by what we know of President Obama’s life.

Unlike the rural South with its uniform patriotism where Clinton was raised, President Obama’s life presented him with opportunities to meet several activists, with subversive attitudes and anti-American sentiments. The academia and community leaders Obama consorted with were likely very different to the good ol’ boys of Clinton’s youth.

But with youth long in the past, it is President Obama’s current preparedness to slander the reputation of Christians and America while protecting the reputation of Islam, as well as his increasing openness in the last few months that is now raising eyebrows.

Many Americans are unsettled by a President more animated by largely imaginary racial and religious discrimination than the genuine evil of Islamic terror. The belief espoused by the Administration that climate change and US overreach are the two greatest threats to American national security is rejected viscerally by the majority of American. The First Lady’s revelation in February 2008 that "for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country” is the antithesis of the traditional American experience.

These are not priorities or positions shared by the heartland, or “Bubbaville” (thanks, Mike Huckabee).

Few would dispute the compatibility of anti-Americanism with liberal ideology. America, after all, is the greatest impediment to leftist success, and represents the last great holdout to the secular-progressive agenda.

It is not impossible for liberals to love America, but if they do, they are far more likely to love it for what it can become, rather than what it is.

In a sane world, having the following comments out in print via Obama’s racist books would have knocked him out of the running for president of the United States. (they would have crucified a white candidate for far less)
From Dreams from My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”. Barack Hussein Obama

From ‘Dreams from my Father’, “The emotion between the races could never be pure, even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, THE OTHER RACE (WHITE) WOULD ALWAYS REMAIN JUST THAT: MENACING, ALIEN, AND APART.” Barack Hussein Obama

From Dreams from My Father: “THAT HATE HADN’T GONE” he wrote, BLAMING “WHITE PEOPLE — some CRUEL, some IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.” Barack Hussein Obama

From ‘Dreams from My Father’, “There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,to show your LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES, TO STRIKE OUT and name names” Barack Hussein Obama

From ‘Dreams from My Father’, ‘I VOWED THAT I WOULD NEVER EMULATE WHITE MEN whose fates didn’t speak to my own. IT WAS INTO MY FATHER’S IMAGE, THE BLACK MAN, SON OF AFRICA, THAT I’D PACKED ALL THE ATTRIBUTES I SOUGHT IN MYSELF, THE ATTRIBUTES OF MARTIN AND MALCOLM, DUBOIS AND MANDELA’ Barack Hussein Obama

From The Audicity of Hope: To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”

From The Audicity of Hope: After graduating from college, Obama eventually went to Chicago to interview for a job as a community organizer. His racial attitudes came into play as he sized up the man who would become his boss: “There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. “A little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.”

From The Audacity of Hope:..’the white race...“that ghostly figure that haunted black dreams.”

From “Dreams”: (after making his first visit to Kenya, he wrote of being disappointed to learn that his paternal grandfather had been a servant to rich whites. that the revelation caused)“ugly words to flash across my mind. Uncle Tom. Collaborator. House n-——”.

From The Audacity of Hope: “We are no longer just a Christian nation,” he argues in “Audacity,” which was published last year. “We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists.”

From ‘Audacity’: “Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones,” Obama wrote. “For my mother, organized religion too often dressed up closed-mindedness in the garb of piety, cruelty and oppression in the cloak of righteousness.”

“Malcolm X’s autobiography seemed to offer something different,” Obama wrote. “His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force

Then there is his love of Islam:

Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:

“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, THOUGH, WAS MY [half brother], ROY..HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM”.

From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “IN INDONESIA, I SPEND TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL” “..I STUDIED THE KORAN..”

From ‘Audacity of Hope: “LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED ISLAM....”I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE”.

From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I WILL STAND WITH THEM (MUSLIMS) SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS OF WAR SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION..” .

From The Audacity Of Hope, “WE ARE NO LONGER JUST A CHRISTIAN NATION, we are also a Jewish nation, a MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”

http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20080101164820/http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html?cid=dc-article-obama . http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20080101164815/http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html?cid=dc-article-obama

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Don’t believe it? Think these comments taken ‘out of context’? Here it all here in his own works;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6zM5ldO35A

Obama mocks, makes fun of the Bible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbLzhwvVR_M

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Still need convincing?

Race: http://theobamafile.com/obamarace.htm

Islam — early years: http://www.theobamafile.com/_Islam/ObamaIslamEarlyYears.htm

Islam — candidate: http://theobamafile.com/_Islam/ObamaIslamCandidate.htm

Dreams — Google books search: http://books.google.com/books?id=HRCHJp-V0QUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=dreams+from+my+father&source=bl&ots=PG9C6W4IYM&sig=5qpIOlRHH7sp8Y9-RBcJw13Xsio&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CqhpUPLRK5C20AGP5oDwDg&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=dreams%20from%20my%20father&f=false

Audacity — Google books search: http://books.google.com/books?id=4vlcQZU6mwQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=audacity+of+hope&source=bl&ots=RUZxD-Y3J3&sig=NQLsrtgOLSH9Rza2Mcm6ISGJ8nU&hl=en&src=bmrr&sa=X&ei=SqhpUOQB6ITRAbv9gcAI&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=audacity%20of%20hope&f=false

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