June 27, 2009 9:42 AM
Obama's failure to identify as an American - Part 1
Prior to the election, many alternative news sources tried to sound the alarm about Obama's 20-year history with his pastor Jeremiah Wright signaling a streak of anti-Americanism which could be harmful to our country. (Many can be found in the MommyLife archives.)
Well, it certainly has proved true, hasn't it? Obama seems disdainful of European leaders and anxious to kowtow to those referred to in PC terms as "of color" (see Does Obama hate white people?). This strategy is clearly not working for him, and I wonder what he thinks when Ahmadinejab scolds him for daring to challenge - in even the most timid terms - the violent reaction to the obviously-rigged elections in Iran.
I believe both Obamas have a streak of bitterness and hostility in their hearts that is pushing our domestic and foreign policy in the disastrous directions we see. As though he is regarding the next four years as payback time.
[See also Obama's failure to identify as an American - Part 2]
Jeremiah Wright Foreign Policy
By Mark Hyman on 6.26.09 @ 6:08AMAnyone familiar with the views of Barack Obama's pastor of twenty years might wonder if Reverend Jeremiah Wright is the chief inspiration behind the president's foreign policy. The president's overseas forays - dubbed the "American Apology Tour" - have featured Obama issuing one apology after another on behalf of a U.S. he has pronounced guilty of countless transgressions.
Obama has apologized for Guantanamo Bay; for alleged mistakes committed by the CIA; for U.S. policy in the Americas; for America's history of slavery; for "sacrificing [American] values;" for "hasty decisions" in the war on terror; for "America's standing in the world;" for American errors in foreign policy; for U.S. relations with the Muslim world; and for American "arrogance," being "dismissive, [and] even derisive" toward U.S. allies. One gets the sense Obama is far from finished.
Wright, too, found unlimited fault with America. For example, he opposed the great American melting pot. He denounced racial impurity particularly when white men and black women have offspring. "Black women were raped by the millions," Wright claimed in his 1996 book, When Black Men Sand Up for God. "Look around your church or neighborhood at the colors of African people today. America is the land of our trouble," he warned in his 1995 book Africans Who Shaped Our Faith.
Wright lectured his parishioners "When you forget who you are, you start letting your behavior be determined by the enemy's [white people's] expectations. How you act is based upon what they think. And that sickness is perpetuated, because through assimilation and acculturation, you now think just like they think." Wright admonished his congregants "If you are not European, stop pretending you are."
Wright's black separatist sermons have been notorious for racist comments about "white arrogance," "the United States of White America," and "the U.S. of KKK." Wright also accused the U.S. government of conspiring against black people. "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied," he claimed in one sermon. Rather than asking for divine blessings for the U.S., instead Wright urged "G** D*** America!"
In August 2007, Wright delivered a eulogy at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. He referred to the nation's Founding Fathers as the "fondling fathers." He called Texas "the cradle of dehumanization," he made an ethnic slur about Italians and "their garlic noses," and he repeatedly mentioned "white enemies." Wright warned mourners of "White supremacist brainwashing, passing itself off as education."
Wright's anti-Semitic leanings seemingly play themselves out in U.S. relations with Israel. Just recently, Wright derided "them Jews" for blocking his access to President Obama.
In contrast to his deference to anti-American leaders such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, and Daniel Ortega, Obama has strong-armed Benjamin Netanyahu on key Israeli matters. He snubbed the Israeli Prime Minister in his first request to meet with the president. While pronouncing Iran's pursuit of nuclear technology acceptable and announcing the U.S would not meddle in Iran's election, Obama has warned Netanyahu against targeting Iran's nuclear facilities, has demanded an end to Israeli settlements and has insisted on the creation of a two-state Palestine solution. Obama's attitude is not new.
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