tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post19643387111507405..comments2024-03-27T20:09:11.399-06:00Comments on Unabashedly American: America's ExceptionalismDarrell Michaelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-4036281491653756622010-04-22T13:47:09.800-06:002010-04-22T13:47:09.800-06:00Dave, everything you said regarding President Obam...Dave, everything you said regarding President Obama's amazing personal story I acknowledge as being true. <br /><br />That being said, how can a man that raised himself up from such humble orgins to become the most powerful man of the world's greatest country wish to transform it in such ways that would make this uniquely American story impossible for others to ever replicate again?Darrell Michaelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-35975015130161171342010-04-22T10:23:40.223-06:002010-04-22T10:23:40.223-06:00There is not a single thing you presented there th...There is not a single thing you presented there that proves to anyone other than the most rabid Obama haters that he "delight[s] in pointing out the errors, evils, and shortcomings of our greatest of all nations."<br /><br />It is sheer nonsense. Sorry, but you are so far out there on this one, that I fear you may be beyond help. Really, making such accusations against someone who so embodies everything that is right and good about America pisses me off.<br /><br />His story is an amazing American story. The child of an immigrant works hard his entire life, makes it to an Ivy League school, excels there and becomes the first African-American to head the Harvard Law Review, moves to Chicago and helps in the inner city by being a community organizer, teaches Constitutional Law at a respected university, decides to run for office and challenge an old guard Chicago Democrat - Bobby Rush - and loses, but does not give up. He has a beautiful, successful wife and two beautiful kids. After serving in his state's legislature, he runs for Senate and wins. His speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention is so moving and powerful that he is propelled to national status. He runs for president and wins. The first ever African-American president of the United States. Ever.<br /><br />How you can spin that inspiring, uniquely American story into Obama harboring resentment toward America and, I guess, according to you, wanting it to fail, defies all logic, frankly. <br /><br />Your attempts at guilt by association didn't work in the election because the American people saw through the exaggerations and lies it was wrapped up in.<br /><br />You truly do suffer from Obama Derangement Syndrome. I sincerely hope you get help. No joke.Dave Splashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416298425231496822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-19091190852030902492010-04-21T20:05:15.270-06:002010-04-21T20:05:15.270-06:00Splash, you put words in my mouth that I did not s...Splash, you put words in my mouth that I did not say. Nowhere did I say that Obama "hates" America. I said he runs it down and seems to delight in pointing out the errors, evils, and shortcomings of our greatest of all nations.<br /><br />Based on his strongest desires to "transform" America and to "redistribute" the seemingly (to him) ill-gotten money of the wealthy to those poor to which it rightfully belongs in his eyes seems to suggest to me that he does not understand nor does he appreciate the value of hard work and rugged individualism that created the prosperity and safeguarded the liberty of this country.<br /><br />Obama seems to want to revise our nation's history to the world and apologize repeatedly to foreign dignataries as he bows his way across other continents for America's transgression, real or imagined.<br /><br />He is embarrassed by the use of our military for safeguarding freedom for us and our allies and wants to pull our troops back from our obligations as soon as possible, consequences to liberty be damned.<br /><br />He has a dark history of hanging out and befriending those that find America to be an evil, unjust, and racist country. I give you his spiritual mentor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, in whose church pews he sat for twenty years as Mr. Wright proclaimed HIS racist views and how America got what it deserved in 9/11 as God "damned America". <br /><br />He started his political life in the living room of William Ayers, a domestic terrorist that is unrepentant to this day for his work with the weather underground in trying to kill police and bomb government installations.<br /><br />Even Obama's own wife was "never proud of her country" until her husband reached his pinnacle career height.<br /><br />One does not do, say, or associate with others of this ilk if he truly understands, appreciates, and loves his country, Splash.<br /><br />It is hardly a made up accusation. The fact that you do not understand this saddens me, sir, because I suspect you agree with much of our President's sentiments regarding the best nation ever founded on this earth.Darrell Michaelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05474956372325309461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-408858764761620479.post-27008182874508086202010-04-21T15:36:13.846-06:002010-04-21T15:36:13.846-06:00"Now granted, America has not been perfect as...<i>"Now granted, America has not been perfect as a nation"</i><br /><br />I don't know, Paine, sounds like you hate America. Are you a commie or born in Kenya or something because no real American would ever even acknowledge a mistake made by the US. Cuz, of course, we are Americans and we don't make mistakes.<br /><br />This is the most baffling and confusing of the made up attacks on our president. To argue that President Obama secretly hates America is one of the dumbest and most baseless charges the right has made in the long list of baseless charges leveled against him. <br /><br />What is this based on? Nothing. Why would Barack Obama run for president if he hated America and wanted others to succeed instead of us? What is the logic there?<br /><br />Actually, don't bother. The entire "Obama secretly hates America" meme is so ridiculous that I don't even want to know from whose ass it was pulled out of.Dave Splashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16416298425231496822noreply@blogger.com