Is America Waking Up?
by John Romano
Why has America done so well in world affairs since 1776? Selfishness? Divinity? Ruthlessness? Sheer luck?
If you believe the current batch of Democrats who are turning Washington into a permanent liberal fiefdom, divinity has had no hand in world affairs. And if it did, we’d surely be the receiver of its wrath. America is mean. America’s selfishness is all that is wrong with the world, says the left. We are not the shining city on a hill, as a wise old man once told us we were.
The mainstream press got a real rude awakening this week as the Washington Post attempted to do publicly what they have always done privately: sell influence. Further to that, Helen Thomas and Chip Reid of CBS gave Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs an earful for the administration’s canned YouTube town hall. Hand-picked attendees and staff-picked YouTube videos does not a town hall make. Gibbs flubbed over that one like a teenager getting caught sneaking in to an R-rated film.
Perhaps the press is waking up. Perhaps not.
I gave a speech in Las Vegas last weekend. My main points focused around gay marriage and abortion. I put forth that Republicans need to avoid both issues like the plague. Democrats consistently use them to paint urban Republicans into a corner of intolerance and “hate.” Security, taxes, and avoiding Socialism are where we need to fight. Don’t change your opinions, just focus on what is before the country today, I said. I’d rather live in a country that was free and permitted both abortion and gay marriage than a Cap and Trade, government health care, Obama Motors, union controlled, weak military, nightmare of Socialism and Chicago patronage any day. That’s just me. I don’t have an in at City Hall. I have to work for what I get.
What the left fails to realize, or more terrifyingly doesn’t care, is that the world is like the ocean.
