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History 201

Submitted by frashure on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 06:03
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The presidential campaign of Barack Obama has, so far, run virtually unchecked and untested by its supporters. These people baffle me; they fall in line in torrents, largely ignorant in the most strict of definitions. Only amongst this kind of hysteria could a presidential venture of this sort garner any strong footing. Fortunately for Obama, there are many American's who seemingly just don't care.

Two-hundred and thirty-two years ago we declared our independence. In the scope of world history, that time is hardly so far gone. Should the issues of that time, of our founding, be not still paramount to the fabric of our nation? Surely they are and, in an age where our sovereignty, security, and other basic right are so easily trampled upon by activist judges and over-zealous politicians, we must remain steadfast in remembering our Founding Fathers and those who shed their blood for this Freedom.

After watching this video, narrated by Fred Thompson, a thought occurred to me: In all of his many speeches preaching 'hope' and 'change,' it's not exactly frequent to hear Barack Obama get heated in defending our constitution, or railing against any threats to our sovereignty and freedom, or stressing the importance of remaining a free people. So, I decided to do some research. I opened the PDF of his "Blueprint for Change" and did a search for a few key words. You may be shocked at what I found, or more importantly, what I didn't find.

Freedom - After a search through the entire document, I was returned two instances of the word "freedom." Both were contained in the same line: "Ensure Freedom to Unionize: Obama believes that workers should have the freedom to choose whether to join a union without harassment or intimidation from their employers." Not exactly what I was looking for. A search of the "Issues" portion of his site turned up one mention of the "First Amendment freedoms" in regards to protecting children from content in the media (something Obama and I both agree is an important issue) and freedom of net neutrality.

Constitution - Again, I was offered merely two results. One came in a line that explained Obama's steadfastness in opposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the result of Roe v. Wade. The second was a mention to, go figure, Iraq's Constitution.

Liberty - Shame. Not once does this word appear, in any context, in the entire 62-page document.

Sovereignty - Again, nothing.

Founding Fathers - This is probably the most depressing of them all. Nowhere in his little "plan for America" does he cite the most important people in our history.

So what is important to Barack Obama? You'll find plenty of instances of "universal."

The frightening thing about all of this: It may not be so far fetched to say that, if he were to obtain the presidency, Obama very well may toss out any vital part of our history that he deems outdated and rewire our entire system as he sees fit to his socialist utopia. How is it that a man with such low regards for the principles upon which this nation was founded is in such a position to take it's highest office?

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There is a simple reason

Submitted by Ironman on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 06:42.

he is a man without any roots in our culture and institutions. Alas, the product of a failed romance by a career graduate student mother (who evidently renounced faith) he is taken in by grandparents in that rather atypical place of Hawaii, then sets off to the Ivy League world af academe, and thence, off to the leftist activist world of South Side Chicago.

Barry don't get Scranton, or Syracuse, or other such Rust Belt places where roots to family and place matter, and where patriotism isn;t something you dredge up as a campaign slogan.. He didn;t want to "end up on the New Rochelle train" as a dutiful father and provider in suburbia. Compare him to Tim Russert. There's no Big Russ, no nuns at the local parochial school, nada. Or Bubba Clinton, the BMOC of a smallish southern town.(note both those folks were Democrats)  No, it's a post-industrial, transnationalist resume for Barry which this mick from the 'burbs just don't get.

Frankly, this guy is like Jay Gatsby, a self created man with no past who breezes into the present as a self-generated entity meeting contemporary fashion.

 

Obama says "We are Not a Christian Nation"

Submitted by GOP_Rebel on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 11:43.

I disagree, and I found an excellent summary from the Catholic Education Research Center which expresses exactly why I disagree (and full disclosure, I'm not Catholic):

When President Harry Truman wrote to Pope Pius XII in 1947 that "This is a Christian nation.", he certainly did not mean that the United States has an official or legally-preferred religion or church. Nor did he mean to slight adherents of non-Christian religions. But he certainly did mean to recognize that this nation, its institutions and laws, was founded on Biblical principles basic to Christianity and to Judaism from which it flowed. As he told an Attorney General's Conference in 1950, "The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings we get from Exodus and Saint Matthew, from Isaiah and Saint Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days. If we don't have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State."

Woodrow Wilson, in his election campaign for President, made the same point: "A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.... America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the tenets of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture."

The crucial role of Christianity in this nation's formation is not without dispute, although as Revolutionary leader Patrick Henry said: "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship."