In addition to Barack Obama's fixation on himself, he has another, perhaps even more disturbing fixation -- how bad America is.
His "Blame America" theme was on world exhibition when he spoke before tens of thousands of Berliners and orated about the "imperfect" nation he was seeking to lead.
In a thoughtful article "Barack's "Tragic" Emphasis", Ben Johnson asks,
Can Barack Obama go the rest of the campaign without demeaning the country he seeks to lead?
Johnson is bothered by Obama's "seemingly omnipresent emphasis on the ills and maladies of the nation whose presidency he seeks." For example, just this week, at a gathering of minority journalists, Barack Obama said, “I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged.”
Obama's choice of mentors and friends is troubling -- America haters such as Reverend Jeremiah Wright (for 20 years "God Damn America" was his theme) and Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, who as recently as 2001regretted he hadn't bombed more.
His wife seems to reflect his -- and Jeremiah Wright's --negative attitude towards America. She repeatedly gave speeches about America being "just downright mean" and disclosed -- only after her husband had won a few primaries -- she was "for the first time in my adult life" proud to be American. She complained how America was always raising the bar: "it's always just quite out of reach."
Other signs, too, indicate something less than enthusiam for his country. Obama wouldn't wear a flag lapel pin, wouldn't cover his heart with his hand during the playing of the national anthem and he belittled small town America's religiousness.
Why isn't the media examining "just how obsessed is Obama with the ills and evils of his country’s past?" He may want to think of himself as a citizen of the world, as he said in Berlin, but he's running to be president of the United States.
Could this scene have anything to do with it?When Obama walked on stage at the McCormick Center, many journalists in the audience leapt to their feet and applauded enthusiastically after being told not to do so. During a two-minute break halfway through the event, which was broadcast live on CNN, journalists ran to the stage to snap photos of Obama.
As Tammy Bruce commented, “Yeah, no bias there.”
The media refuse to see, but all Americans with a heart for their country’s well-being in a time of war should discern the significance of this bias – of the media for Obama, and of Obama against his country.
