We Still Have Paris (great article!)

americanthinker.com ^ | 3/28/15 | Richard F. Miniter

[cotton1706]

You won’t hear the song about the decline of the nation’s power and influence overseas along American rivers out on its farms or in its factories, nor in its offices and homes, but only among the self-obsessed chattering class in Manhattan, Washington, and in self-important academic enclave after enclave where it’s an award winning soundtrack. America’s best days as a power in the world, as a force for good, are over, is how its words go. More than that -- that such days should be over because it was never really a force for good, not really. Instead, America is and was an oppressive imperialist state, immoral and power mad. Murderous “cowboys” always upsetting the more sophisticated, accommodating, and nuanced goals of the much smarter ruling European intellectual elite.

And so America still has that long ago day in Paris in its pocket, not as a memory of jubilant millions rushing into the streets to honor America but in the facts on the ground, with the common people of Europe to this day. Because those generations of Americans who first liberated so many and then kept so many safe so honorably have piled up such a mountain of goodwill and admiration that no one very bad American president can disperse it, not in six years and not in eight.

Which means the tedious self-contempt of the argument against a twenty-first century America able to throw its weight once more into the contest between good and evil falls on inspection.

Because all we have to do is scrape this administration off our shoe in 2016 and return to doing good. Not a matter of arrogance or pride, but just in the simple announcement that we’ve come back. Millions of hearts in Europe and elsewhere will answer, “We always knew you would.”

[cotton1706]

"Because all we have to do is scrape this administration off our shoe"

Indeed!

[LYDIAONTARIO]

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[tet68]

“Scrape the Obama off your shoes and let’s get GOING!”

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

So, someone thinks the Republicans won’t blow it again? Good luck to us all on that one.

[deadrock]

Apparently GOP @#%& don’t stink.

[Veto!]

Indeed, the intellectuals, both theirs and ours (please remember that intellectual doesn’t mean “smart” it means having no life experience other a theory)

I'd be more impressed if there weren't a word missing from this sentence. American Thinker should think about hiring a copy editor or two.

[tet68]

Remember, it’s not up to the republicans,
it’s up to US. We are who must push
our agenda. We don’t need the party
to start an agenda, we make an agenda
and the party will have have to support it.
The same with Senator Cruz, we cannot wait
for the party to put him forward, we must
give him enough support that the party
can’t do anything other than get behind us.

Lead or get out of the way.

[Borderline]

Nails it.

[Excellence]

How lovely to think this might be true.

[GOPJ]

Always good to kick your own party... what a charming comment.

[Balding_Eagle]

Yes, maybe it is true that we can just scrap Obama off our shoe and move on.

It’s the voters who put him there that are going to be hard to educate, so they don’t keep dumping stuff on the path.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

From the article...
“Because all we have to do is scrape this administration off our shoe in 2016 and return to doing good. Not a matter of arrogance or pride, but just in the simple announcement that we’ve come back. Millions of hearts in Europe and elsewhere will answer, “We always knew you would.””

Absolutely true! All we have to do... Mr Clean to the rescue! Cruzzin’!

[stig]

So, someone thinks the Republicans won’t blow it again? Good luck to us all on that one.

It's not the republicans fault. I'm not a big fan of establishment republicans. But this is the American people's stupidity, plain and simple. Romney fumbled at the end to be sure, but American voters knew what Obama was all about and they voted for it, again doubling down on stupidity. It's just a tragedy that the rest of us have to go along for the ride.

So it's really not if the republicans blow it. It's more like when the American people blow it and begin to believe the lies of the democrats and their propaganda arm the lame stream media again (if the ever did stop in the first place).

It would be nice if the republican's could get the message out but that would require all networks, news agencies and a ground swell of grassroots internet chatter to accomplish. So I don't see it happening anytime soon.