“You want to know about my patriotism?”
Trying to defend the constant hits to his integrity over the “patriotism issue” Obama took it head on in North Carolina last week according to the Washington Post;
“You want to know about my patriotism?” Obama said last week in Chapel Hill, N.C. “My patriotism is rooted in the fact that my story, Michelle’s story, is not possible anywhere else on Earth. That the American dream, despite this country’s imperfections, has always been there. . . . That there are ladders of opportunity that all of us can climb. That we’re all created equal. That we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights — life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. . . . That we’re willing to shed blood for those liberties, we’re willing to speak out for those liberties. . . . That we can make this country more just and more equal and more prosperous and more unified. That’s why I love this country. That’s why you love this country.”
Well, see there’s his problem – he loves this country because he can change it. He doesn’t particularly like the country the way it is, but he loves the fact he can change it.
Obama also made a big mistake by saying we can make the country “more equal”. Thomas Jefferson wrote in our Declaration of Independence that “All men are created equal”. Government can’t make people more equal – we’re born that way. Obama even said that…so how can government make us more equal than when we were created?
Well, Obama’s talking about the socialist “equality” where the government takes things from people who’ve earned things and gives those things to people who didn’t earn them. Our government gives us the equality of opportunity, but Obama wants to buy votes with the promise of equality of life without the equality of effort.
So, his patriotism is just like his religion – something he wrap himself up in to turn back the slings and arrows and he understands it only superficially so. His patriotism, like his religion is only skin-deep. I don’t care if he doesn’t wear a flag pin, or if he doesn’t put his hand over his heart for the National Anthem, but what I do care about is what Obama understands about what made this country the beacon for freedom in the world – and how it remains so.
Gee, with all that talk of how “only in America” could his and Michelle’s story happen, he might want to give a copy of his speech to his better half. I think while he was giving props to the US of KKKA, ‘Chelle was out there telling all of us that we just can’t get ahead in this country.
I’m assuming his campaign has email and cell phones. Better start usin’ ’em.