Posted by
Patrick Henry on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:22:16 AM
For some time now it has been off-limits to question the patriotism of a candidate.
Those who always howl the loudest are those who have done something or taken a
position leading others to raise the issue. The theory is that it is fair game to question
actions or words, but never motives. However the shibboleth ignores the reality that
actions and words ARE motivated, and voters whose support is sought have a full
right to investigate just what those motives are.
So, it's time to take the gloves off and say it: Barack Obama, the current president
of the United States is no patriot. He is an American-hating socialist whose motives
are made transparent through a concerted series of actions and words that consistently
denigrate the nation of which he is supposed to be the leader. His actions and words
are so blatant, in fact, that they permit open season on his motives.
This is a man who, prior to his election, stood on foreign soil and accused America
of arrogance and derision, who joined his party in applauding a foreign head of state
as he berated Americans from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, who
bowed before the rulers of Saudi Arabia, Japan and China, who sat idly at the feet
of a racist preacher who was most famous for beseeching God to damn America,
who counts among his friends a man who is proud of having gotten away with violent
attacks that claimed American lives and whose own wife says he considers Kenya to
be his "home country."
It is his administration that now faces litigation against fourteen of the states he is
supposed to represent, and is threatening more of the same against a fifteenth. It is
Obama who has failed miserably to secure the nation's borders and protect its
sovereignty, responding only yesterday by sending one-third of the needed National
Guardsmen to the troubled boundary. It is Obama who has sought to redistribute
America's wealth, giving it to his favored constituents, taken over manufacturing,
banking, investment and insurance firms, sought government hegemony over the
internet and passed a socialist healthcare bill that 63% of Americans now want
repealed. It is truer of the Obama administration than it ever was of Pogo that
"we have met the enemy and he is US."
No leader can long succeed who places himself constantly in an adversarial
relationship with those whom he would lead. The arbitrary, oppressive, coercive
style Barack Obama has brought to government is not simply a personal
preference. It is the only way that he can "fundamentally transform America" to
a system Americans do not want. Coercion and democracy are the mongoose
and the cobra of politics. It is only a matter of time until the "mongoose" of
democracy pounces on and dispatches the "cobra" of socialism embodied by
an Obama administration filled with self-avowed socialists, Marxists and admirers
of same.
You say, Mr. President, that we can question your policies, but that we cannot
question your patriotism. Oh yes we can! And it is your own words and actions
that not only permit but obligate us to do so. You are clearly no lover of country,
and would remake it after your own Marxist image so that you CAN love it. The
problem is that millions of us WON'T! Real patriots don't act and talk like you do.
In the campaign to come, your record will be the iceberg that sinks your Titanic. It
will make what happened to Jimmy Carter look like a slap on the wrist. If you
really hate America, why not find a country you can love? Kenya, perhaps?