With apologies to everyone, I have to again bring up our Vice President and his embarrassing trip to China. In a rambling, incoherant speech, Biden said the following on what it means to be American:
"These accomplishments were made possible not because there’s anything unique about an American. It’s hard to define what an American is. Shortly, 50 percent of the American population -- less than 50 percent will be of European stock. So we are the most -- we are an incredibly heterogeneous nation. That's part of our strength. That's part of the boundless capacity of the American people. But it’s also because of the enduring strength of our political and economic system and the way we educate our children, a system that welcomes immigrants from across the globe who enrich our national fabric and revitalize our diverse multi-ethnic society. And I would point out, we are still the destination where most people in the world seek to come. People usually don't seek to come to a nation in decline."
Nothing unique about America? Hard to define what America is? George Washington would have to disagree: "The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstitution, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined than at any former period."
You're right Mr. Vice President, there is nothing unique about a country whose principles are based on human nature and not on force or fraud; principles which are accessible to all men and all times; principles that are not grounded on race, gender, or religion; principles that are based on the recognition of equal natural rights of all men; principles that secure all American's civil and religious liberty, etc.
Sigh...
/facepalm
ReplyDeleteDid he seriously contradict himself three times?
LOL
The problem is exactly as you pointed out.
ReplyDeleteModern liberals wants to see America as good, but they also see a racist and bigoted past as evidence of a deeply flawed country founded on deeply flawed principles. The only reason America can be called good is how far it has evolved or progressed since the founding. This is the only real difference of opinion between President Obama and Jeremiah Wright.
They want to see America as good but for reasons that essentially are meaningless (diversity, etc.). They want to see America as a shining light on the hill and an example for other counties and other people, but they cannot explain at all why it should be that way.