Barack Obama, A Sorry President

Should we anticpate Obama apologizing:

- to the French for ruining their shoreline on D-Day
- to the British for taking their 13 colonies away from them
- to Mexico for taking away their land
- to all the Indians for stealing their land
- to all Muslims for the Crusades.

Obama only apologizes for what other people have done; he never says “I’m sorry” for his own actions or inactions.   “I really must apologize for what they did.”   Now, if he said something like “I’m really sorry for all the vacations I’ve taken and all the time I’ve spent on the golf course while the country is suffering,” his apology might have a bit more resonance….

You met Paul Tibbets?!  I’m more than a little envious.  Is that all you asked him?  Do tell, please.

Last year I came across an article in The Blaze about a teachers’ conference in Hawaii whose intent was to promulgate disinformation about the history of WWII in the Pacific.  Following is part of the letter from one of the 25 scholars who was chosen to attend the NEH conference (paid for, in part, by U.S. taxpayers).  I’ll bet she is never invited to their conferences again.  This is what we concerned parents are up against every frappin’ day in our public schools.  My kid’s LA teacher just told his class last week that “Communism isn’t all that bad.  Capitalism can be very bad.”  Sigh.  Another parent/teacher conference on my calendar now.

Full article:  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/professor-exposes-federally-funded-revisionist-history-conference/

Excerpts from letter, Pamela Blake, Ph. D.:

Dear Congressman Manzullo:

As one of twenty-five American scholars chosen to participate in the recent
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Workshop, “History and
Commemoration: Legacies of the Pacific War in WWII,” at the University of
Hawaii, East-West Center, I am writing to ask you to vote against approval of
2011 funding for future workshops until the NEH can account for the violation of
its stated objective to foster “a mutual respect for the diverse beliefs and
values of all persons and groups” (NEH Budget Request, 2011).

In my thirty years as a professor in upper education, I have never witnessed
nor participated in a more extremist, agenda-driven, revisionist conference,
nearly devoid of rhetorical balance and historical context for the arguments
presented.

In both the required preparatory readings for the conference, as well as the
scholarly presentations, I found the overriding messages to include the
following:

1. The U.S. military and its veterans constitute an imperialistic,
oppressive force which has created and perpetuated its own mythology of
liberation and heroism, insisting on a “pristine collective memory” of the
war. The authors/presenters equate this to Japan’s almost total amnesia
and denial about its own war atrocities (Fujitani, White, Yoneyama, 9, 23). One
presenter specifically wrote about turning down a job offer when he realized
that his office would overlook a fleet of U.S. Naval warships, “the symbol of
American power and the symbol of our [Hawaiians'] dispossession…I decided they
could not pay me enough” (Osorio 5). Later he claimed that electric and oil
companies were at the root of WWII, and that the U.S. developed a naval base at
Pearl Harbor to ensure that its own coasts would not be attacked (9, 13).

2. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor should be seen from the
perspective of Japan being a victim of western oppression (one speaker
likened the attack to 9-11, saying that the U.S. could be seen as “both victim
and aggressor” in both attacks); that American “imperial expansion” forced
Japan’s hand: “For the Japanese, it was a war to defend their unique culture
against Western Imperialism” (Yoneyama 335-336); and the Pearl Harbor attack
could be seen as a “pre-emptive strike.” (No mention of the main reason for the
Pearl Harbor attack: the U.S. had cut off Japan’s oil supply in order to stop
the wholesale slaughter of Chinese civilians at the hands of the Japanese
military.) Another author argued that the Japanese attack was no more “infamous”
or “sneaky” than American actions in Korea or Vietnam (Rosenberg 31-32).

3. War memorials, such as the Punchbowl National Memorial Cemetery
(where many WWII dead are buried, including those executed by the Japanese on
Wake Island and the beloved American journalist Ernie Pyle), are symbols of
military aggression and brutality “that pacify death, sanitize war and enable
future wars to be fought” (Ferguson and Turnbull, 1). One author stated
that the memorials represent American propaganda, “the right to alter a story”
(Camacho 201).

Thanks, Larry, for writing about this.  This is another Cloward/Piven tactic lifted from the Frankfurter School of Critical Theorists. 

Know your Marxists.  We need a set of MacDonalds Happy Meal flash cards. 

I don’t know what it is about the left, but they always want you to feel bad, guilty, ashamed of something. I say this as a liberal of 30 years. Most of your time is supposed to be spent apologizing for something bad your country allegedly did, causing global warming, oppressing native Americans, rounding up the Japanese.

I’m telling you, what cured me was studying British history. No offense to the Brits, but you guys did some seriously messed up stuff with all your colonizing and occupying, LOL! Good grief, America would have to exist for another thousand years just to be worthy of placing in the competition.

But seriously, people need to compare America to other countries in order to really appreciate what we’ve tried to create here. It’s always struck me as odd, the US is one of the few places where war actually costs us money. We always have to go back and rebuild the place, pay restitution, loan you money so you can keep your country running. Look at the French, the Brits, the Chinese. They didn’t just invade, they occupied, seized all the assets, and then force you to pay retribution to them!

It is not enough that Hillary appologize to Khan’s family.  She must convert to Islam, begin to dress appropriately (any hair visible on the head of a woman is a dagger to the heart of the prophet) , and start providing sex to Bill whenever and wherever he demands it.  I would point out that one of the penalties specified in the Koran for failing to provide sex is a good beating.  Hmmm…is this why so many Iranian men tend to wear wifebeater shirts?

Sorry, when I read about Hillary joining the apology tour, I get a bit nuts.  She needs to quit in utter disgust and run against Obama.  Valerie would start race riots, of course, but they’re probably coming anyway when Obama loses in November.  

Thank you, Larry.  I had 5 uncles serving in the heat of WWII and 3 more that would have been in the middle of it had the war not ended when it did.  Apologize for ending the war?  I think not!

It would never occur to the Japanese to apologize for Pearl Harbor or what they did to all of Asia…

Just in case anyone thinks I’m being a worry-wart about the protestors lifting Barry-O’s ratings, check out this poll on, of all places, FOX News…

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/07/do-occupy-wall-street-protests-represent-your-views-economy/?intcmp=obnetwork

Seventy percent of the respondents…stressing again that this is FOX…say the protestors are right.

We are so screwed.

As seen at MOTUS:

I gotta wonder how these people can live with themselves. This administration has done nothing of real use, with two exception, otherwise it has gone out of its way at every opportunity to divide the public, demean its opposition, defile our political system, destroy our economic base, deny historical precedent, and dishonor our veterans. Their logic consists only in the repeated chanting of three-word phrases to rally their brain-dead supporters.

hope and change
share the wealth
winning the future
the new foundation
pass this bill
millionaires and billionaires
jobs, jobs, jobs

I’ve got a couple for him:

Shut your piehole
One term only
Bye Bye Barry