Given his family background - if 'family' is quite the word - I was not too suprised when practically the first thing Obama did on entering the White House was to get rid of the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office. Nor did I mind too much when it became clear that he despises Britain because it is a large and not very exclusive club whose members include most of the world's leaders. And anyway, why should he like this country? It is presumptious to assume otherwise. However, what has only slowly dawned on me over the past five years is that he also despises America - I was about to write 'his own country' but then I remembered that with his background America might not actually come in to that definition.
This week he chose, deliberately, to ignore the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address which stands in direct contrast to his starring role at the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. Perhaps, there were important matters of State to attend but somehow I can't help feeling that a WSJ luncheon with sundry businessmen hardly stands comparison with the celebration of Lincoln's iconic speech. I think even Bill Clinton would have recognised the difference.
I wonder when it will dawn on the American people that they have a president who actively detests his own country. Some time ago I suggested that Obama was surrounded by people whose only political desire was to bring down American society to a state of emergency because only in those chaotic conditions would they stand a chance of seizing the sort of powers they dream of. As I said a few posts down, with the passage of 'Obamacare' he and his government have, with malice aforethought, deliberately attacked and destroyed health insurance plans held by millions of Americans and have offered them nothing, that's nothing as in zero-zilch, in return. As this cruelty becomes clear there is a chance of very real trouble which, of course, will play into the hands of Obama's apparat.
