The Coronation Speech
(by jcm @ http://littlegreenfootballs.com/showc/400/6559753 - with whom I agree 100%)
...seemed flat in both delivery, and content.
One line did piss me off big time. IMHO it clarifies for me that BHO does not like this country, the things it has accomplished, the things it stands for.
"We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things."
Yes, we are a young nation in span of history. We however are not young in our government. Since our inception all other nations have changed their form of government, we are the longest standing form of government. Among governments we are the adults. We have set the mark and all other nations have in the last 200 years moved in our direction not the other way. In that time a competing way has arisen, Socialism - and Socialism has proven to be a bankrupt philosophy. The remainder of the Thugs left, paint their regimes with facade of what we established, holding faux elections.
Among deeds we have been the adults of the planet. Upholding liberty around the world time and again. Spending our blood, our treasure to secure the liberty of others. There is no more mature, adult, selfless deed than that.
What childish things would you have us put aside? Our Rights? Life? Liberty? Property? Happiness? Those are far from childish. We should never, by any means put away those things. Those where bought with blood are the most precious things and in no way childish.
Should we put away the free capitalist economy? The very thing that propelled us to our economy place in the world. That individuals are free to pursue their talents, dreams and abilities to the maximum extent. That these individuals take full responsibility and credit for there lives, failures, and success, that the product of their labor, toil and sweat is theirs and theirs alone. That is not childish.
Are you speaking of charity? No nation is more charitable than we, from blood spilled on foreign lands, to food and medicine sent to disaster areas no nation is more generous than we.
Calling our past childish is a deep insult to the founders, the generations that have upheld and fought for the ideals. It desecrates the blood of patriots who died to establish and protect his nation.
I find this line most telling on the inner thoughts of our President.
I find the line deeply disturbing.
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But not at all surprising. - OI
Labels: Culture, History, Hubris
