The President Without A
Country
- Pat Boone
"We're no longer a
Christian nation." - President Barack Obama, June 2009
" America has been
arrogant." - President BarackObama
"After 9/11, America
didn't always live up to her ideals."- President Barack Obama
"You might say that
America is a Muslim nation."- President Barack Obama, Egypt
2009
Thinking about these and other
statements made by the man who wears the title of president, I keep
wondering what country he believes he's president of.
In one of my very favorite
stories, Edward Everett Hale's "The Man without a
Country," a young Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan stands
condemned for treason during the Revolutionary War, having come
under the influence of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks him if he
wishes to say anything before sentence is passed, young Nolan
defiantly exclaims, "Damn the United States ! I wish I might
never hear of the United States again!"
The stunned silence in the
courtroom is palpable, pulsing. After a long pause, the judge
soberly says to the angry lieutenant: "You have just
pronounced your own sentence. You will never hear of the United
States again.. I sentence you to spend the rest of your life at
sea, on one or another of this country's naval vessels - under strict
orders that no one will ever speak to you again about the country
you have just cursed."
And so it was. Philip Nolan
was taken away and spent the next 40 years at sea, never hearing
anything but an occasional slip of the tongue about America. The
last few pages of the story, recounting Nolan's dying hours in his
small stateroom - now turned into a shrine to the country he
foreswore - never fail to bring me to tears. And I find my own love
for this dream, this miracle called America , refreshed and renewed.
I know how blessed and unique we are.
But reading and hearing the
audacious, shocking statements of the man who was recently elected
our president - a young black man living the impossible dream of
millions of young Americans, past and present, black and white - I
want to ask him, "Just what country do you think you're
president of?"
You surely can't be referring
to the United States of America , can you? America is emphatically
a Christian nation, and has been from its inception! Seventy percent
of her citizens identify themselves as Christian. The Declaration
of Independence and our Constitution were framed, written and
ratified by Christians. It's because this was, and is, a nation
built on and guided by Judeo-Christian biblical principles that
you, sir, have had the inestimable privilege of being elected her
president.
You studied law at Harvard,
didn't you, sir? You taught constitutional law in Chicago ? Did you
not ever read the statement of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court and an author of the landmark "Federalist
Papers": "Providence has given to our people the choice
of their rulers - and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and
interest of our Christian nation - to select and prefer Christians
for their rulers"?
In your studies, you surely
must have read the decision of the Supreme Court in 1892: "Our
lives and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and
embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible
that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent
our civilization and our institutions are emphatically
Christian."
Did your professors have you
skip over all the high-court decisions right up till the mid 1900's
that echoed and reinforced these views and intentions?Did you pick
up the history of American jurisprudence only in 1947, when for the
first time a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson about a "wall
of separation between church and state" was used to deny some
specific religious expression - contrary to Jefferson 's intent
with that statement?
Or, wait a minute: were your
ideas about America 's Christianity formed during the 20 years you
were a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ under your
pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Is that where you got the idea that "
America is no longer a Christian nation"? Is this where you,
even as you came to call yourself a Christian, formed the belief
that " America has been
arrogant"?
Even if that's the
understandable explanation of your damning of your country and
accusing the whole nation (not just a few military officials trying
their best to keep more Americans from being murdered by jihadists)
of "not always living up to her ideals," how did you come
up with the ridiculous, alarming notion that we might be
"considered a Muslim nation"?
Is it because there are some 2
million or more Muslims living here, trying to be good Americans?
Out of a current population of over 300 million, 70 percent of whom
are Christians? Does that make us, by any rational definition, a
"Muslim nation"?
Why are we not, then, a
"Chinese nation"? A "Korean nation"? Even a
"Vietnamese nation"? There are even more of these
distinct groups in America than Muslims. And if the distinction
you're trying to make is a religious one, why is America not
"a Jewish nation"? There's actually a case to be made for
the latter, because our Constitution - and the success of our
Revolution and founding - owe a deep debt to our Jewish brothers.
Have you stopped to think what
an actual Muslim America would be like? Have you ever really spent
much time in Iran ? Even in Egypt ? You, having been instructed in
Islam as a kid at a Muslim school in Indonesia and saying you still
love the call to evening prayers, can surely picture our nation
founded on the Quran, not the Judeo-Christian Bible, and living
under Shariah law. Can't you? You do recall Muhammad's directives
[Surah 9:5,73] to "break the cross" and "kill the
infidel"?
It seems increasingly and
painfully obvious that you are more influenced by your upbringing
and questionable education than most suspected. If you consider
yourself the president of a people who are "no longer
Christian," who have "failed to live up to our ideals,"
who "have been arrogant," and might even be
"considered Muslim" - you are president of a country most
Americans don't recognize.
Could it be you are a
president without a country?
All who love their Christian
beliefs, and their country, forward to all in your address book.
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2 comments:
Obama is talking about USA INC not we the people. THINK OIL SAVVY.
Well said Pat Boone, well said..........Thanks to Pat for telling it like it is.
I thought before O was elected that he meant harm to our country. Remember his first tour of the middle east when he apologized for being American.
How much longer can we good Americans endure this imposter? He is getting ready to start World War 3 - part of his plan to destroy our country. His Fema Camps are ready for us - Hitler has been reincarnated.
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