This is why the man is always on a teleprompter…
Last weekend was momentous for all the people in the United States. In one weekend of speeches President Barac Obama stumbled into forgiving Americans for every issue that has ever come up.
‘What’ you say?
Let me explain.
Throughout the campaign and into the early presidency of Barac Obama we have heard repeated calls to “put aside the divisive rhetoric” and “move past the tired old ideologies of the past.” He went on to say, “we need to move past the debates that have torn us apart for so long” and “look to the future.” Time and again he has tried to tell Americans – and now the world – that we need to put down the old hostilities, talk to each other and move toward healing the wounds that divide us.
All that sounded nice, but it was hollow until President Obama stepped to the microphone in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend and addressed the crowd of North and South American leaders. President Obama was following Nicaraguan President Jose Daniel Ortega who had just excoriated the United States in usual Communist Dictator fashion as being responsible for all the ills of the world. President Obama, after nodding agreement throughout the speech, thanked the Nicaraguan president for not holding HIM personally responsible for events that happened when Obama was 3 months old.
And just like that the President of the United States opened the floodgates of forgiveness to all Americans for events that took place before we were born. If Obama can feel exonerated for events that happened over which he had no control when he was a baby all of America can feel the same exoneration for events that we had no control over, either – like wars, nuclear weapons, slavery, occupations of nations, scandals, multinational companies, creating a dependency on oil and a host of other sins that have been laid at our doorstep. Obama has been out on tour for the last couple weeks apologizing to the world for events over which none of us had any control – and now we are no longer responsible.
It’s extremely liberating!
So, from all of us Americans who are now liberated, I’d like to thank you, Mr. President, for removing our sins. No more international guilt, no more corporate guilt, no more white guilt, no more guilt for being the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons, no guilt for being the sole remaining Superpower, none of it. We’re now forgiven!! Time to look forward to the future as a country!!
To quote a truly great – and often mischaracterized – American, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., We are “Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last.”
Last weekend was momentous for all the people in the United States. In one weekend of speeches President Barac Obama stumbled into forgiving Americans for every issue that has ever come up.
‘What’ you say?
Let me explain.
Throughout the campaign and into the early presidency of Barac Obama we have heard repeated calls to “put aside the divisive rhetoric” and “move past the tired old ideologies of the past.” He went on to say, “we need to move past the debates that have torn us apart for so long” and “look to the future.” Time and again he has tried to tell Americans – and now the world – that we need to put down the old hostilities, talk to each other and move toward healing the wounds that divide us.
All that sounded nice, but it was hollow until President Obama stepped to the microphone in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago over the weekend and addressed the crowd of North and South American leaders. President Obama was following Nicaraguan President Jose Daniel Ortega who had just excoriated the United States in usual Communist Dictator fashion as being responsible for all the ills of the world. President Obama, after nodding agreement throughout the speech, thanked the Nicaraguan president for not holding HIM personally responsible for events that happened when Obama was 3 months old.
And just like that the President of the United States opened the floodgates of forgiveness to all Americans for events that took place before we were born. If Obama can feel exonerated for events that happened over which he had no control when he was a baby all of America can feel the same exoneration for events that we had no control over, either – like wars, nuclear weapons, slavery, occupations of nations, scandals, multinational companies, creating a dependency on oil and a host of other sins that have been laid at our doorstep. Obama has been out on tour for the last couple weeks apologizing to the world for events over which none of us had any control – and now we are no longer responsible.
It’s extremely liberating!
So, from all of us Americans who are now liberated, I’d like to thank you, Mr. President, for removing our sins. No more international guilt, no more corporate guilt, no more white guilt, no more guilt for being the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons, no guilt for being the sole remaining Superpower, none of it. We’re now forgiven!! Time to look forward to the future as a country!!
To quote a truly great – and often mischaracterized – American, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., We are “Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last.”
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