What American President Would
Do That?
By
Carol A. Taber
AmericanThinker.com
Other presidents have been
wrong. Other presidents have been misguided. Other presidents have been weak
and pusillanimous and pathetic.
Only one
truly disdains America. His name is Barack Obama.
How else to explain his latest outrage against the
country that elevated him to the ranks of world leadership? Last week, the
Obama State Department submitted a report to the U.N. High Commissioner for
Human Rights on the supposed human rights violations taking place in the
United States. According to the
Washington Times,
the report
describes how the United
States discriminates
against the disabled, homosexuals, women, Native Americans, blacks,
Hispanics and those who don't speak English. There is the expected
pandering to Muslims...the report notes that until recently, the U.S. engaged
in torture, unlawfully detained terrorist suspects and illegally spied
on Americans communicating with terrorists ... but the report assures
readers that Mr.
Obama has been
putting a stop to all that.
Beyond the outrage felt by
Governor Jan Brewer, whose move to protect Arizonans' human rights was
offered up as an example of an abuse of human
rights by Mr. Obama's State Department report (gotta protect those drug
cartel murderers!), for many citizens, this report is a rank anti-American
manifesto and the last straw. Many believe it to be outright evil, that
there is no other word to encompass Obama's disgraceful and indefensible
decision. This odious report has placed America -- us -- on a list of human
rights violators that includes Iran, North Korea, and Sudan. And Mr. Obama
and his administration have done it purposefully, intentionally, and with
malice aforethought.
The truth, on
the other hand, is that every demographic group mentioned in the report as
victimized by America is better off in America than in any other country on
earth. That's why they stay here. If they don't like America, they're free
to leave at any time. We're not the Soviet Union or China, restricting
population flow. European glories are only a plane ticket away.
But they don't
leave. That's because the people of America have a higher standard of
living, more opportunity for high-quality health care (at least for a little
while longer), a better shot at a decent education, and more personal
freedom to pursue occupations of their choice -- and life, liberty, and
happiness -- than in any other place on the planet.
But according to Obama, splinter groups of Americans
(including women, who compose a majority of the population) are hapless and
defenseless victims of our "downright mean" country, a description coined by
Mrs. Obama during Mr. Obama's campaign for president. The State Department
report is a typical liberal look-at-America-through-a-toilet-seat
perspective, construing every minor problem as systemic and considering all
forms of law enforcement discriminatory. The report is unseemly and deeply
offensive to the American people.
Worse, it's
not just Obama and his thumb-sucking minions whining about America to other
Americans -- at least that wouldn't be purveying false notions about America
outside our borders. No, lying to Americans about the cruelty of their
country isn't enough for Obama -- he must preach it to the world. Because in
Obama's worldview, the world is the ultimate arbiter of America, even though
that quaint document, our Constitution, specifically grants such
responsibility to the American people alone.
It's nonsensical from a legal point of view, and
Obama's a lawyer. One of the chief notions in legal academia is that a
judge's political perspective shapes his decisions no matter how hard he
attempts to be objective. The same holds true for countries -- Iran will
judge us through the Iranian anti-Semitic, anti-American, anti-freedom,
fundamentalist Islamic perspective it uses for everything else. Yet Obama
inexplicably sees the judgment of countries like Iran as important and wants
to lay bare before the world each of our minute flaws -- some real, some
imagined -- for careful examination and exploitation by our most implacable
enemies, with much of that exploitation dangerous to our national security
and to ordinary Americans.
Perhaps it's
because Obama has spent most of his life in a Christian country that he
doesn't understand how the world works -- over here, we don't cast the first
stone. Instead, we target the most egregious human rights violators and try
to curb their violations. Maybe Obama thinks the rest of the world will act
in truly Christian fashion, too, and focus on the true human rights
violators even if we expose ourselves to the tyrants, dictators, and
mullahs. That would make him an idiot.
More likely,
Obama just doesn't give a tinker's damn whether the world flays us because
he thinks America's minor flaws are major ones. It is possible that Obama
dislikes America because this is the country that produced his rootless life
and gave leeway to his drunk, child-abandoning Kenyan father. More likely,
Obama is displeased with this country because he spent his childhood
wandering from identity to identity until he found one that justified his
alienation -- identity as a Marxist racialist -- an elevated identity in the
left's hierarchy of the victimized.
Whatever
the reason, Obama has no soft spot for America. The unpresidential
condescension he feels for our country and its religion- and gun-clinging
citizens oozes from his pores and spills out of them in unguarded moments.
And that disrespect -- the kind that comes only from those who are clueless
about leadership -- gives both aid and comfort to our enemies and leaves
those who wish to share in the bounty of our freedom and liberty in the
dark.
What American
president would do that?
Carol A. Taber is president of
FamilySecurityMatters.org.
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