We have not previously had an administration so obsessively determined to claim the moral high ground.
Most of them have been, at least on a subconscious basis, "PoMo." Clinton went around the World apologizing to other countries for what we have accomplished. But Reagan was not afraid to face the "Evil Empire," which drove the Liberals nuts.
This Administration says, "Hey, we are running the greatest, freest, most moral, country in the World, and the reason it is the greatest is because of what the country has done." I think this drives the left in this country even more nuts than it does the left overseas. If you don't believe that, watch the answers to this post that "Badmouth" this country. (probably including yours). Chomsky and his crowd epitomize the left that hate this concept.
As far as Religious sentiment, FDR, in his D-Day radio address to the country, ask the people to kneel down by their radios and pray for the soldiers participating in the invasion, and, all over this country, people did. I was 9 years old at the time.
Try these Presidential words on for size:
>>>Here's our president, the president of our land of religious liberty, going out there and making his point by citing Saint Paul's letter to the Ephesians.
"Ephesians says we should speak the truth with our neighbors for we are members one of another," the president said. "I believe that. I think that is the single most important political insight, or social insight, in the Bible. And I think it is what should drive us as we behave together."
Then he got to the compassionate God-talk. "Is my destiny caught up in yours?" he asked. "Are we part of the same family of God? It's not enough to say we are all equal in the eyes of God. We are all also connected in the eyes of God."
And the crowd applauded.
Does it bother you that our president talks that way? If it does, consider this: The speech I just quoted was not given by President Bush. It was given at Washington's Metropolitan Baptist Church in December 1997 by a president named William Jefferson Clinton.<<<
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