Thanks to Kyle Drennen at Newsbusters:
Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.”
…”Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We’re not just parochial, we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial.”
Thomas elaborated on Obama as God, patronizingly explaining: “He’s going to bring all different sides together…Obama is trying to sort of tamper everything down. He doesn’t even use the word terror. He uses extremism. He’s all about let us reason together…He’s the teacher. He is going to say, ‘now, children, stop fighting and quarreling with each other.’ And he has a kind of a moral authority that he – he can – he
can do that.”
Now beyond the obvious issue that anyone and everyone should have with a supposed Journalist and editor of a national (purported) News magazine likening a President to God, I have a greater issue with the other things that he said.
Reagan was President of The United States, and he was our greatest advocate and standard bearer. Whatever else may be said about Reagan, he believed in this nation, and had unending pride in our accomplishments and our potential. America is, after all, even today, the only nation on earth where literally MILLIONS of people struggle to emigrate to, so they can live in freedom of thought and religion, and (at least for the moment) have economic freedom.
What Thomas is saying is that Obama is ABOVE being America’s advocate. That he has a higher calling.
And if Obama were President of the United Nations, I would probably not have a huge issue with that.
But it’s not his JOB to be the worlds Messiah, or Teacher on the Playground, as Thomas asserts. His JOB is to represent the United State, and to look out for our best interests.
If Obama doesn’t, or can’t, put aside his own ambitions or personal feelings about America, he should resign his office.
The United States of America needs a President that has our best interests at heart, first and foremost. We do NOT need a man dedicated to tearing America down to everyones elses level. To taking away what makes America a special place. And yes, a BETTER place that most other nations on this earth.
As an aside, in a recent speech, Obama made the following statement:
“I know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in Iraq. So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other.”
I have a serious problem with this, as should anyone who lives in freedom, enjoys freedom, or yearns for freedom, philosophically. It is also patently untrue in a historic sense.
Indeed, in the ashes of World War II, which, coincidentally, is a subject today due to the anniversary of the D-Day invasion, America (and in some cases, our Allies) “imposed” representative forms of government on several nations, which remain in power today.
Iraq’s “imposed” Republic is stabilizing by the day.
Indeed, the most immoral thing possible is to ignore our brothers and sisters who even today suffer under repression and oppression.
Obama is a “…sort of God?” What a horrible, sad thought for free people everywhere, and all those who yearn to be free.
