Obama Bashes America Even as he Argues for Olympics
President Obama in Copenhagen
Though I respect and admire Bill Bennett a lot, I disagreed with him yesterday when he said that one good thing about President Barack Obama going to Copenhagen to stump for Chicago as the city for the 2016 Olympics was that Obama would finally have to say something good about America while abroad.
I was not as optimistic as Bennett and suspected that–as Obama usually does when talking to the international community–he would manage to find some opportunity to bash his own country and cast America in a bad light.
Sadly, I was right.
These are some excerpts of what President Obama said about our country, as you will see in the video below
“We are putting the full force of the White house and the State Department to making sure that not only is this a successful Games but that visitors from all around the world feel welcome and will come away with a sense of the incredible diversity of the American people.”
And
“We’ve got everyone. This could be a meeting in Chicago, because we look like the world. Over the last several years sometimes that fundamental truth about the United States has been lost.”
And
“One of the legacies of this Olympic Games would be the restoration of that understanding of what the United States is all about and a recognition of how we are linked to the world.”
Visitors from around the world don’t feel welcome? Well, we sure have a lot of them who come here every day, to not feel so welcome.
America loves to have visitors from around the world. What we don’t welcome are terrorists (though I know Obama probably wishes we would embrace terrorists more openly and lovingly as he does). We also don’t welcome people who sneak into our country and enter our country illegally. Would you welcome someone who entered your home illegally?
“What the United States is all about” has never changed. Our values are written down in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. We are “all about” freedom, personal responsibility, limited government, and the recognition that we are endowed by our Creator with our inalienable rights.
It is true that some of our leaders (like Obama) are zealous to take the United States in the opposite direction of what we are all about, but the American people have demonstrated unwaveringly that we are not about going down the road of socialism and mediocrity that so much of the world has. That has never been more clear than in the last six months as patriotic Americans have arisen by the millions to attend and join Tea Party movements, speak out at town hall meetings, and make it clear that we are darn well committed to sticking with the values that the United States is “all about.”
Finally, I’m also struck by his elitist comment that Chicago “looks like the world,” as if the rest of the country he loathes so much is divided into white enclaves who keep the suffering poor people and people of color locked out and under their oppressive thumb.
Barack Obama may be a racist (and there is considerable evidence to support that contention), but I do not believe most Americans are, and they certainly don’t live in a racist, separationist fashion.
I have nothing personal against Barack Obama. But what I said during the campaign season–as Obama’s loathing and contempt for America and American values became clear–is never more true than it is today.
It was a profound mistake to elect as our leader a man who despises our form of government, our traditional values, our way of life, and our very character as Americans.
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