Apparently I didn’t realize just how absolutely correct I was in my thinking when I said out loud and off-handedly on election night that “Barack Obama won’t be my president.” It appears that based on his recent “world tour,” he really isn’t the President of the United States in both spirit and letter, but something else entirely; it seems instead that he is the President of the Whole World, and therefore has no inherent need to further our interests in any form or fashion on the world stage. In fact, you don’t have to listen to much of what he said during his travels to get the idea that he doesn’t think much of America at all…considering that he is, after all, its leader.
Obama didn’t get out there and shout epithets at his (theoretically) home country, but that would be too obvious, even for him. Instead, we are treated to everything from his surprising gesture of bowing to the Saudi King, to essentially apologizing for us to Muslims in Turkey, to actually calling us “arrogant” in his recent speech delivered in France. Quite clearly, Obama feels we have a lot for which to be ashamed, and feels that whenever he travels abroad, it should be in a spirit of contrition that naturally evolves from the unforgiveable sin of being, well, American. I know there are a lot of people who seem perfectly fine with a president who feels the need to travel the world with a notable spirit of inclusiveness; I also know that in the same speech in which he called us arrogant, he also chided Europeans for a palpable anti-Americanism that he noted as being “insidious.” However, while I agree that anti-Americanism is rampant throughout the world (could it be any more obvious?)…much of it of late engendered by our gall in actually wanting to defend ourselves from Islamo-fascist terrorism…I feel no need to temper that opinion by condemning my own patriotism in a pathetic display of “we are the world-ism.” I don’t believe that my patriotism, or that of anyone I know, is “arrogant.” I think it’s just patriotism…but exhibiting patriotism at all, at any quantifiable level, is now by definition an act of arrogance.
By itself, much about Obama’s demeanor when he interacts with foreign leaders and peoples suggests, at best, a tempered enthusiasm for America…but when you go on to additionally consider the other disquieting things we’ve seen emanate from the Obama camp in the past, such as his historical adherence to a pastor who is happy to shout “God damn America” from the pulpit, as well as his marriage to a woman who said during the campaign that she only recently found her pride in being an American, you can’t help but get a clear picture of someone who seems to hold this country in some measure of disregard.
It’s difficult to ignore the preponderance of the evidence, as they say in court.
In Obama’s America, if you are one who loves his country and seems himself as a patriot, there’s something flawed about you by definition. That’s partly why I know I’m not a participant in Obama’s America. I view myself as a citizen of the world only in the most benign sense of that expression. I am an American…among other things, a former U.S. Army soldier who was produced by the union of another former soldier and a former U.S. Navy sailor…and as such, I look with great disdain upon any representative of these United State of America, particularly when it’s the president, who ever does or says anything that diminishes the greatness, both present and historical, of our country.
Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor-At-Large www.ChristianMoney.com
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