During Obama’s remarks to France yesterday, the President claimed that, when it comes to Europe, America has been both “arrogant” and “dismissive.”
“[The United States has] failed to appreciate Europe‘s leading role in the world”, President Barack Obama said yesterday. … Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”
So, in other words, because of our belief in American exceptionalism, we are, indeed, the problem certain UN members say we are. Now, to gain balance, Obama, did say that European nations have been very anti-American — for which he lays the blame squarely at our feet once again. But what really stands out here is to be found between the lines.
Obama, during the course of his speech, also promised that “America is changing ….” The message, loud and clear, is that rather than deriding our European neighbors and their absurdly socialist one-worlder “European Union”, the united states should recognize the “leadership” of that community.
Never mind that the entire world is undergoing economic meltdown — including the EU. Never mind that it is the United States — not the EU, and not the UN — that must impliment retribution when the United Nations fail to back up their own policies and sanctions.
No, what Obama makes plain here, and in his words to the G20, is that our country is, under his leadership, headed toward one-world government. And he, Obama, promises to be the bridge that takes us there.
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That tired act is going to get us hit by terrorists again
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 1:17PM EST (link)Little Lord Fauntleroy is busy trying to give away everything we worked for, as a nation, for 65 years.
Nice going.
Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
Yes, EPU, and for all his EU-sucking up, he didn't get
janis (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 1:26PM EST (link)any offers of more soldiers from them for Afghanistan. We need to insist that O stay home from now on and just send the teleprompter to these grip and grins overseas.
That's because the guy is
Xasteius (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 3:46PM EST (link)a poser.
Don’t leave the party, hijack it back!
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I don’t want to be Reagan. I want to be a Chance/Soros hybrid.
More than that...
Steph C (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 1:33PM EST (link)He’s taking the steps to turn the government of this nation to a world body. He’s mentioned it in the past, in a hundred different little ways that make it hard to pinpoint but essentially, he doesn’t want the responsibilities of the office, just the status, and is more than happy to let somebody else, including America haters do the dirty work.
Since people here look to him as the leader rather than his puppet masters behind the scenes, he has to go higher to abdicate his duties, doesn’t he?
But, I’ll get labeled a “truther” for saying such things, won’t I?
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Not by me, Steph. The notion that he's just the front
janis (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 1:51PM EST (link)man for people like Soros & Co. is undeniable, at least in my view. As others here have said, if you want to know what these people truly are all about, just listen to what they accuse us of. And Lord knows they spent enough time accusing George W. Bush of being the puppet of big business and secret enclaves worldwide.
Exactly right, Steph.
randy streu (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 2:00PM EST (link)not about you being a “truther,” but the rest of it. He’s clearly in the pocket of socialist one-worlders. If they put you in a straight jacket for saying so, guess they’ll wind up locking me up, too.
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For years I've heard the phrase "UnAmerican" used and always associated it with McCarthyite excess
AKSteveB (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 3:52PM EST (link)It was just another one of the phrases I associated with “Right Wing Crazies.” Now we’re getting to see the first UnAmerican President. I also can’t pinpoint it to just one thing, though I think itrytobenice has a handle on it down below. The guy simply isn’t connected with American tradition, history, or pride. He doesn’t seem to have the …instincts …identification ..tribal pride .. whatever that has made us “us.” (and yes I realize that hasn’t always been good). I remember one of Hillary’s campaign aides (can’t remember which one now), said that he thought Obama’s outlook was basically unAmerican. He was told to shut up because it came off as racist. Do you all really think that most liberals are this far away from what we always have been?
Hell is other people – Sartre
That's a good question, AKSteve. My sense
janis (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 4:06PM EST (link)is that many may be as un-American in their thinking as Obama, but it may just be theoretical on their part. Once they get a good hard look at what these policies do this country and their lives, they may reconsider their long-held beliefs again. Here’s hoping, anyway.
It's anecdotal
vettepilot (Diary) Tuesday, April 7th at 10:31AM EST (link)but I just spent a week on vacation with my in-laws, and my wife’s mother has been a bleeding heart liberal as long as I’ve known her. At least until she got a well-compensated position at a pharma company, that is. Her and I had a lengthy conversation, and I’ll be danged if she didn’t appear to have done a total 180. Of course, that doesn’t mean that her new-found attitude toward free-market principles and taxation will transfer to her choices on election day, but she at least considers a view-point that she never would have given a passing thought to a few years ago.
What kind of behavior would be UnAmerican?
David123 (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 4:09PM EST (link)Cursing America in sermons
Trying to blow up American military installations
Going out of your way to associate with Communists
that’s not an exclusive list, but I’d say those three behaviors certainly qualify as UnAmerican
McCarthyism would be falsely accusing a loyal American of UnAmerican behavior.
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I like Steve's description better.
Steph C (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 5:11PM EST (link)McCarthy did things in excess but he wasn’t always wrong. It is more about how he went about accusing than whether there was any truth to his accusations.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Steph, I just had an amusing thought. Somewhere
janis (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 4:11PM EST (link)I read that because of America’s level of debt, we couldn’t qualify to be a member of the EU even if we wanted to be. Now wouldn’t it be so very fitting if we didn’t qualify to be a member of the one world thing for the same reason? More likely, we’d be a member but wouldn’t get a vote, just pay our dues and watch countries like Syria get to call all the shots.
Funny you should say that.
Steph C (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 5:08PM EST (link)Beck had his program today that should have been yesterday. The one I thought I’d be watching yesterday, that is. I’m not a huge fan, like with Rush, but I like his Friday shows best and was looking forward to that one. He touched on this a bit.
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The reason the founders wanted a natural born citizen
itrytobenice (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 1:40PM EST (link)This illustrates the reason the founders wanted a natural born citizen as our president. They knew that he would speak for and represent this nation more than any other single person. They wanted someone who would have absolutely undivided allegiance to the nation.
We have a president who was probably born here, but who spent his childhood in other nations or in households of people who were not enamored with the US.
Then he became a rabble rouser with groups of anti-American activists. He sat in a church of a man who seems to despise our nation and its people.
We have a real problem here, Houston.
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Vegas_Rick (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 2:39PM EST (link)“We have a real problem here, Houston.”
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
I published my diary a month too early.
pilgrim (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 7:04PM EST (link)http://www.redstate.com/pilgrim/2009/03/03/there-oughta-be-a-law/
The diary is a proposal that we need to tighten up the rules regarding what natural born citizen means wrt POTUS. It is not about stopping our present officeholder, but about correcting for future elections. I did catch some heat for my proposal.
You caught a lot of heat
Jack_Savage (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 11:39PM EST (link)And were called racist, among other things.
Let me out it this way – I am from Virginia. If I were an official involved in some decision that required me to choose between the welfare of, say, New York or the welfare of Virginia, I would sure as hell choose Virginia.
The point, made quite well by itrytobenice, is exactly what he said:
“We have a president who was probably born here, but who spent his childhood in other nations or in households of people who were not enamored with the US. Then he became a rabble rouser with groups of anti-American activists. He sat in a church of a man who seems to despise our nation and its people.”
Many, many immigrants get what being an American is far more than many Americans who can trace their lineage back generations. I am confident in saying that Barack Obama’s father did not get it at all, and that has an effect that should be avoided if possible among elected officials.
Wait, "she" said, I believe is correct
Jack_Savage (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 11:39PM EST (link)Sorry…
And what really sickens me
izoneguy (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 9:03PM EST (link)I mean really makes me want to vomit is the way that people are still fawning over this idiot. And Michelle is really, really making me feel for the first time in my adult life not proud of our president and first lady. What a joke these two are. And the jokes on the 50 whatever percent that voted for our fraud in chief. Every month we loose 600,000 jobs. That will be 7 million this year alone. The fraud in chief can never make that up. Business is cutting & running and how long before we have riots in the street?? Like in Europe??
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
This is an excellent comment
Jack_Savage (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 11:24PM EST (link)And the answer to the question of “Why?” when it comes to Obama’s attitudes about America.
He is as much Kenyan as he is American, and showed it with his disrespectful treatment of an old friend and ally, Great Britain.
Long live whatsisname
Robert A. Hahn (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 6:51PM EST (link)How does he know that I haven’t been celebrating Europe’s dynamic union? Are you telling me that thing we found behind the mirror is some kind of camera?
Drink Good Coffee. You can sleep when you’re dead.
Not a camera, just a two way teleprompter. n.t
janis (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 6:56PM EST (link).
And I meant to add that whatsisname is testing
janis (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 6:57PM EST (link)these for future gifts to heads of state. See how important you are to the current administration?
Obama is no more American than his father
Tbone (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 7:11PM EST (link)whoever that might really have been.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Obama is Expressing his and Michelles own views about America
James_Reynolds (Diary) Saturday, April 4th at 8:49PM EST (link)he ceretainly is not expresssing the American view.