Posted by
Darrick Johnson on Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:36:55 AM
Barack Obama has made himself synonymous with “Hope”, but it’s a puzzling sort of hope. Obama, his wife, pastor, and liberal friends have nothing positive to say about America’s history. While Ronald Reagan spoke of America returning to its greatness, for Obama and the American left, there is no such greatness to return to. If they have hope, it’s that America will become a neutered pseudo-socialist state like Sweden. And as much as I am proud of my Swedish heritage, that’s not particularly inspiring or hopeful.
Let’s review the American history that liberals like Obama and his pastor teach their children:
The founding fathers were white racist pigs, or they were gay; or religious bigots. Only on the rarest occasions can they be hailed as heroes, like when one of them writes a letter to a friend about “separation of church and state.”
Slavery was a unique American sin, one that we only gave up after the U.N. peacekeepers and Janet Reno stormed Robert E. Lee’s forces at Appomattox. We invaded Mexico, stole Louisiana, slaughtered Indians who never once raised a bow and arrow against American civilians or each other.
In World War Two, we liberated the concentration camps, but we should have done it sooner. And then we topped it off by nuking Japan for no apparent reason.
We invaded Vietnam, murdered civilians for kicks, and then left, defeated.
In the 1980’s, Ronald Reagan invented cocaine, the AIDS virus, and homelessness. He then deployed all these maladies toward traditional Democratic voting blocs, felons, gays, and urban bipolar alcoholics, respectively.
Then the Soviet Union fell, but no one knows why. This only produced more pain, as vile Americans gained more influence, waged war for oil, invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Egypt, all of which led to the attacks of 9/11.
If that’s how Obama views American history, what is he hopeful about? He campaigns for change, sure, but hope? It's hope, not for American greatness, but for American comeuppance. Tell kids that they live in a nation founded, built and governed by racist war criminals, and then see if they are hopeful or vengeful.
Contrast that with the conservative lesson plan:
We tell kids that they are divinely created beings. We tell them that they live in the greatest country in the history of the world. We tell them that they are the heirs of the “boys of Pointe du Hoc”, who stormed the beaches of Europe, and saved a continent. We tell them that they are the heirs of the band of farmers and tradesmen who took down the most powerful army in world, and won their freedom. We tell them about the economic juggernaut that their fathers built; a machine that out-produced an Evil Empire bent on world domination, and so consigned it the ash heap of history. We tell them they are the heirs of statesman like Washington, Madison and Lincoln, who fought for, built, and preserved the most powerful beacon of freedom in human history. We tell them that hope that is not a vacuous four letter word, but a real, sincere, intellectual belief that America’s story is a great one; a story that is still being written. It’s a story about the power of human freedom, even in the midst of human frailty. It’s a story about great courage in the face of tremendous odds. It’s the story of divine Providence when human wisdom and ability fails. That’s a real story of hope, that’s real audacity.