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To: Road Walker who wrote (371953)	2/25/2008 11:41:02 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1572191

Basic questions Michelle Obama's recent remark, that she is proud of her country for the first time in her adult life, focuses attention "on what I suspect are some basic and elementary questions that were starting to bubble out there anyway," Peggy Noonan writes at www.opinionjournal.com. Here are a few of them: "Are the Obamas, at bottom, snobs? Do they understand America? Are they of it? Did anyone at their Ivy League universities school them in why one should love America? Do they confuse patriotism with nationalism, or nativism? Are they more inspired by abstractions like 'international justice' than by old visions of America as the city on a hill, which is how John Winthrop saw it, and Ronald Reagan and JFK spoke of it? "Have they been, throughout their adulthood, so pampered and praised — so raised in the liberal cocoon — that they are essentially unaware of what and how normal Americans think? And are they, in this, like those cosseted yuppies, the Clintons? "Why is all this actually not a distraction but a real issue? Because Americans have common sense and are bottom line. They think like this. If the president and his first lady are not loyal first to America and its interests, who will be? The president of France? But it's his job to love France, and protect its interests. If America's leaders don't love America tenderly, who will?"