The I-hate-America Dems
March 14, 2008
© 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Joseph Farah
I know many will consider the title of this column over the top.
But before you determine I am simply resorting to partisan rhetorical overkill, please consider seriously the substance of my observations.
First my thesis: The Democratic Party leadership of the 21st century is viciously anti-American and is ready, willing and able to make unfounded, undocumented, untrue, reckless charges against their country without any regard to how those assertions will be used by U.S. enemies.
Most recently, such statements have been coming from Barack and Michelle Obama:
In remarks about U.S. policy in Iraq, Barack Obama told an election-night gathering in San Antonio March 5 that America was a bully: "It's the same course that continues to divide and isolate America from the world by substituting bluster and bullying for direct diplomacy."
Michelle Obama, who angered many Americans when she said her husband's ascendancy politically coincided with her being proud of her country "for the first time in her adult life," has also characterized the U.S. in campaign stops as "downright mean."
But, to me, an Arab-American, the most offensive comment made by Barack Obama lately is actually one he has been using in speeches since 2004. (He first said it at the Democratic National Convention that year): "If there is an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney, it threatens my civil liberties."
Before I go on, let me first answer these outlandish and irresponsible statements.
America is not a bully. If Obama thinks America is acting as a bully somewhere in the world, he should be very specific about that instance rather than hurling this kind of broad invective that serves only our enemies' propaganda machines.
America is not downright mean. Anyone who believes that and states it openly should be instantly disqualified for high office by voters. America is the most compassionate country on earth. Saying otherwise only plays into the hands of those who seek to destroy us.
America is not, never has and never will round up Arab-American families without benefit of an attorney. Barack Obama knows this. But he chooses to lie about his country, giving credence to the most anti-American myths being perpetuated by radical Islamists and other U.S. haters around the world.
If this kind of America-bashing were limited to the Obama family, it would still be shameful, given his status as the leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Unfortunately, these spiteful, treacherous, anti-American insults have become common verbal currency for Democratic Party leaders.
Let's go back to February 2006. Former Vice President Al Gore, the choice of his party to be president in 2000, speaking in Saudi Arabia told his foreign audience that Arabs in the U.S. had been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable. Unfortunately, there have been terrible abuses and it's wrong. I do want you to know that it does not represent the desires or wishes or feelings of the majority of the citizens of my country."
It was all a lie. There had been no such roundups. But it played well in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Arab and Muslim world – at that very moment enflamed to the point of murder over some Muhammad cartoons.
In 2007, former President Bill Clinton was on foreign soil proclaiming his role in his wife's future administration would be as a kind of roving ambassador whose job would be to "go out and immediately restore America's standing, go out and tell people America was open for business and cooperation again" after eight years marked by unilateralist policies that have "enrage[d] the world."
How about another former Democratic president – Jimmy Carter? In 2005, again on foreign soil, Carter called the war in Iraq "unnecessary and unjust" and said the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay provided "impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts."
Ronald Reagan's U.N. ambassador, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, famously characterized the Democrats back in 1984 as the "blame-America-first" party. It was accurate then and it is accurate today.
But it seems to me the rhetoric is growing more abusive toward our country. The Democrats have morphed from the "blame-America-first" party to the "I-hate-America" party. |
