Extol Our Virtues

It started with one remark by his wife, now our First Lady, that for the first time in her adult life, Michelle Obama was "proud" of America but only with her husband's rise toward the Presidency. Now, it has continued with her husband persistently apologizing for everything to everybody abroad for the United States, as if our very existence has darkened the globe. Quite to the contrary, the US has been the beacon of liberty, the sanctuary, and indeed the liberator to the oppressed the world over. Why do you think so many have risked all to come here? Why did Obama's own father travel here from Kenya? Our society has exemplified our exceptionalism by enshrining liberty that made us the Land of Opportunity as you could enter our land with a dream, use freedom to risk to succeed or fail, but in this land, you could pull yourself back up by the bootstraps and start again. The synergy of political and economic freedom meant that, more than anywhere else, you had the chance to pave your own street with gold. But the regretful socialist running things now does not believe this, Obama has been taught and agrees that we were a nation built on the sweat of slaves, stolen from the Red Man, and basted in the blood of all those we dispossessed in our rise to the tyrannical colossus that bestrode the earth. That is what the Noam Chomskys of the world think and preach and that is the mentality that now resides in the Oval Office and insists that we are so filled with original national sin and so inherently unjust and flawed that we must be remade. That is what Obama's change is all about.