Topic: Liberal Fascism
Liberals, progressives and lefties can say whatever they want about prominent Republicans and conservatives. Remember the leftie line on George W. Bush? He was stupid, a drunk, a fascist, a war criminal. According to Al Gore he “betrayed this country.” There was even a movie made depicting Bush’s assassination—this while he was still president. Supposedly responsible progressive pundits wrote articles that openly proclaimed their hatred of Chimpy McBushitler. And it was all just fine, don’t you know: free speech in action, robust debate, patriotic dissent, etc., etc.
So forgive me if I don’t share the Left’s outrage over Rudy Giuliani’s suggestion that Barack Obama doesn’t love America. It’s phony outrage, it’s one-hundred-percent hypocritical and besides, Giuliani was more or less correct.
The question of Obama’s patriotism—or lack thereof—is an interesting one. There’s not much doubt that our Community Organizer-in-Chief looks askance at the Land of E Pluribus Unum. Why else would he have campaigned for president on the promise that he would fundamentally change America? Obviously he has issues with this country. Nor has he made a particular secret of his attitude. Remember his smarmy little crack about the “bitter clingers”? Remember the hissy fit he threw over questions about his lack of a US flag lapel badge? Remember his, ahem, spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright?
Yet I wouldn’t go so far as to call Obama unpatriotic. He’s not an active hater of Fascist Amerikka, not some leftie loony bird like Noam Chomsky or Michael Moore. Obama is, rather, a typical specimen of the academic Left, a snob for whom such notions as love of country and American exceptionalism are just…tasteless. As a sophisticate with a graduate degree from an elite university he disdains the instinctive patriotism of the proles, the boobs and the bitter clingers. George Orwell once remarked that the average leftist of his day would be less ashamed of stealing money from the poor box than of standing to attention when “God Save the King” was played. Contemporary American progressives of Obama’s type honor that ignoble tradition.
Barack Obama isn’t patriotic and he isn’t unpatriotic. He’s post-patriotic, a man for whom the puerile slogan “think globally, act locally” is full of meaning. And there’s no room for love of country in the mind of a man who considers himself a citizen of the world. That’s the point that Republicans and conservatives should make to journalists who pester them for statements denouncing Giuliani’s comments. The truth hurts and in this case it's sure to make the average progressive’s head explode.
