Michael Gaynor
Obama is America's burden, not being a superpower
By Michael Gaynor
America's problem is Obama, not God or religion.
At the close of the nuclear weapons summit in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, President Obama, when asked how the summit would affect peace efforts in the Middle East, responded: "It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower. When conflicts break out, one way or another, we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure."
2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin on President Obama saying America is a military superpower "whether we like it or not": "I would hope that our leaders in Washington, D.C., understand we like to be a dominant superpower. I don't understand a world view where we have to question whether we like it or not that America is powerful."
The problem is with President Obama's world view, not with Governor Palin's world view or understansing.
President Obama's parents were not religious and the "Christianity" to which he eventually turned was that of Rev. Jeremiah A. ("God damn America") Wright.
If only he had parents like Governor Palin's parents and been so fortunate as to see Russia from his house instead of to live in troubled Indonesia!
Palin understands, Obama doesn't.
2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain called President Obama's claim that being a superpower was a burden on the United States a "direct contradiction to everything America believes in" and "one of the more incredible statements I've ever heard a president of the United States make."
McCain stated: "We are the dominant superpower, and we're the greatest force for good in the history of this country, and I thank God every day that we are a dominant superpower."
The key word is God.
As a presidential hopeful, Obama called pregnancy a punishment and religion a refuge of bitter people frustrated by their economic circumstances.
Presidential candidate Obama referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Obama's then rival for the Democratic party candidacy, Hillary Clinton, commented: "I was taken aback by the demeaning remarks Senator Obama made about people in small-town America. His remarks are elitist and out of touch."
About that, Mrs. Clinton was right.
America's problem is Obama, not God or religion.
First Lady Michelle Obama declared that she became proud of America for the first time as her husband's presidential campaign was being well received.
Did she ever since "God bless America" before that?
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free, Let us all be grateful for a land so fair, As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer.
God Bless America, Land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her Through the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam God bless America, My home sweet home.
It's politic for a president to say "God bless America" (and President Obama wisely does not refuse to do so). But "God bless America" is...AN AMERICAN PRAYER and a president who thinks that America being a superpower is a burden and religion is the refuge of bitter people doesn't share America's traditional values, wants to "fundamentally change" America and is likely to appoint liberal judicial activist Supreme Court justices who would ban "God bless America" in the public square as an establishment of religion prohibited by the First Amendment as a result of a radical revision of America's history. God help America!
© Michael Gaynor
April 28, 2010
America's problem is Obama, not God or religion.
At the close of the nuclear weapons summit in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, President Obama, when asked how the summit would affect peace efforts in the Middle East, responded: "It is a vital national security interest of the United States to reduce these conflicts because whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower. When conflicts break out, one way or another, we get pulled into them. And that ends up costing us significantly in terms of both blood and treasure."
2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin on President Obama saying America is a military superpower "whether we like it or not": "I would hope that our leaders in Washington, D.C., understand we like to be a dominant superpower. I don't understand a world view where we have to question whether we like it or not that America is powerful."
The problem is with President Obama's world view, not with Governor Palin's world view or understansing.
President Obama's parents were not religious and the "Christianity" to which he eventually turned was that of Rev. Jeremiah A. ("God damn America") Wright.
If only he had parents like Governor Palin's parents and been so fortunate as to see Russia from his house instead of to live in troubled Indonesia!
Palin understands, Obama doesn't.
2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain called President Obama's claim that being a superpower was a burden on the United States a "direct contradiction to everything America believes in" and "one of the more incredible statements I've ever heard a president of the United States make."
McCain stated: "We are the dominant superpower, and we're the greatest force for good in the history of this country, and I thank God every day that we are a dominant superpower."
The key word is God.
As a presidential hopeful, Obama called pregnancy a punishment and religion a refuge of bitter people frustrated by their economic circumstances.
Presidential candidate Obama referring to working-class voters in old industrial towns decimated by job losses: "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Obama's then rival for the Democratic party candidacy, Hillary Clinton, commented: "I was taken aback by the demeaning remarks Senator Obama made about people in small-town America. His remarks are elitist and out of touch."
About that, Mrs. Clinton was right.
America's problem is Obama, not God or religion.
First Lady Michelle Obama declared that she became proud of America for the first time as her husband's presidential campaign was being well received.
Did she ever since "God bless America" before that?
While the storm clouds gather far across the sea, Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free, Let us all be grateful for a land so fair, As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer.
God Bless America, Land that I love. Stand beside her, and guide her Through the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam God bless America, My home sweet home.
It's politic for a president to say "God bless America" (and President Obama wisely does not refuse to do so). But "God bless America" is...AN AMERICAN PRAYER and a president who thinks that America being a superpower is a burden and religion is the refuge of bitter people doesn't share America's traditional values, wants to "fundamentally change" America and is likely to appoint liberal judicial activist Supreme Court justices who would ban "God bless America" in the public square as an establishment of religion prohibited by the First Amendment as a result of a radical revision of America's history. God help America!
© Michael Gaynor
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