In November of 2008 upon his election as President of the United States I wrote on this blog the following:
The victory speech of President-Elect Obama was also very well done and gracious and time will tell whether he will truly try to lead as a moderate and reach out to all Americans. As anyone who has read this blog for any time will know I have been a vigorous critic of Barack Obama.
Martin Luther King had a dream that one day all Americans would not be
"judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
That is how I judged Barack Obama by his character that I found wanting!
For the sake of the country I love, I hope I have been wrong about him and I intend to give him the benefit of the doubt unless events prove otherwise.
Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama
Well, after 6 years of the Obama Presidency I have reluctantly reached the same conclusion as Rudy Giuliani, President Obama does not love America and has acted in ways to hurt the nation I love. This is not easy to write or say!
It is possible to disagree with people politically and still view them as wishing the best for the United States. I give Giuliani credit for being the first major public figure to voice what many of us have felt for some time. It takes courage to face the wrath of the liberal elites in the media and academia in this country who have been propping up this fraud!
Ferguson, Missouri was just one example where Obama poured gasoline on race relations in this country. He could have been a calming influence but instead he played to the mob and made a bad situation worse. Time and time again he has divided black from white for short term political purposes. A man who loves America would not have done this.
Time and time again he has apologized to the world for the alleged faults of his own country. He has brought up slavery and "Jim Crow" more than once but neglects to point out that thousands of Americans died at places like Gettysburg and Antietam to end this blemish on our honor.
On foreign soil he has called America "arrogant" when it was the United States who has been the bulwark of the free world since the end of World War II and has given its treasure and the blood of its sons in the defense of liberty around the world.
He has encouraged and abetted thousands of foreigners to cross our borders illegally. Debating and passing new emigration laws are one thing but to disregard the law to allow illegal immigration is another.
He has at the least been passive at best when the IRS has illegally intimidated and harassed honest American citizens exercising their constitutional rights.
Jonah Goldberg of National Review discuses the issue in the following excerpt:
More than any other president, Obama was raised with a detachedly critical view of America. He grew up abroad and in Hawaii, which is as close as you can get to growing-up abroad and still be in the United States. (Sorry, I love Hawaii, but it’s true.) At school he hung out mostly with the foreign-exchange students from Pakistan. “For years when Barack was around them, he seemed to share their attitudes as sophisticated outsiders who looked at politics from an international perspective,” David Maraniss writes in his biography of Obama. “He was one of them, in that sense.”
Byron York writes in his piece on the Maraniss book:
But Obama was ambitious. Appalled by the “dirty
deeds” of “Reagan and his minions” (as he wrote in “Dreams from My Father”),
Obama became increasingly interested in, as Maraniss writes, “gaining power in
order to change things.” He couldn't do that as an international guy hanging
around with his Pakistani friends; he needed to become an American.
So he did. One of those Pakistani friends, Beenu
Mahmood, saw a major change in Obama. Mahmood calls Obama “the most deliberate
person I ever met in terms of constructing his own identity,” according to
Maraniss. The time after college, Mahmood says, “was an important period for
him, first the shift from not international but American, number one, and then
not white, but black.”
Mahmood, Maraniss writes, “could see Obama slowly
but carefully distancing himself as a necessary step in establishing his
political identity as an American.”
His early political years involved similar strategic positioning, from joining Jeremiah Wright’s Church to (according to David Axelrod) lying about his opposition to gay marriage. And it paid off. And when he finally burst on the national scene, he could use his detachment to his advantage. Indeed, his whole approach to politics has been, “People of Earth, stop your bickering. I’m Barack Obama and I’m here to help.” The slogan “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” implies the building-up of a seething desire to make this country different than it is and throw off the dead weight of the past. Whenever he talks unapologetically about patriotism, it is invariably in the context of trying to get the country to rally around some new government endeavor (and, more importantly, himself).
I disliked and disagreed with JFK, LBJ, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton but never questioned their love of the USA, but I do for Barak Obama!
