The America That Once Was
In response to a recent question posed by a seven year old, Barak Hussein Obama said that he’s running for President because America is not what it once was. What America, exactly, is he talking about?
The America that held millions of African Americans in slavery (until 1865)?
The America that ignored a Supreme Court injunction and forced the Cherokee from their homes on a Trail of Tears?
The America that denied half its population the right to vote (women, until 1920)?
The America where people were denied the right to free speech, jailed without habeas corpus, and removed from their jobs for being part of an ethnic majority (Wilson’s WWI, where German Americans—the largest single ethnic group were persecuted without reason)
The America of massive economic depression, dustbowl, population dislocation and a flirtation with fascism? (The Great Depression)
The America where large numbers of an ethnic minority were herded into concentration camps for looking different (Roosevelt’s World War II).?
The America of Jim Crow (until the 1960s)?
The America of JFK’s aborted invasion of Cuba and of numerous attempts on Fidel’s life?
The America of JFK and LBJ’s senseless persecution and escalation of the war in Vietnam (until 1975)?
The America of rampant drug use, where millions turned on, tuned in and dropped out, resulting in an epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases, including the Aids epidemic.
The America of gas shortages, double digit inflation, double digit interest rates, and massive unemployment (the 1970s)
The America of the Watergate Era?
The America where we lived in fear of instant incineration at the hands of Russian missiles (the 1970s and 1980s).
The America where the nation was held hostage by a two bit middle eastern nation, and where the well meaning, but incompetent President created the Middle Eastern disaster as we know it today (Jimmy Carter).
If Obama wants to find fault, he doesn’t have to look very hard.
Or perhaps I have it all wrong. Maybe the America as it once was was the Reagan Era. Things were very good for most of us then. But I don’t think that’s what he’s thinking of.
Barry is an idiot. The truth is that beneath that veneer, he’s an angry man who hates the country and believes he can remake it in his image.
Posted by The Editor on 08/11 at 01:19 PM
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