Dorothy Rabinowitz has a great piece in Sunday’s Wall Street Journal on our nation’s Soul Provider (aka Urkel H. O’Chamberlain) lecturing us back from the errors of our barbarian ways:

During his grim inaugural address — never has the promise of a nation’s rebirth sounded so cheerless – he was similarly emphatic as he touched on the issue of our defense, proclaiming that “we will not give up our ideals for expediency’s sake.” It was a line that evoked a loud upsurge of applause from his audience.

They had heard in it again, Mr. Obama’s most dramatic and familiar campaign charge, delivered now in shorthand that needed no spelling out: The day of the Bush administration’s machinations against our sacred ideals, against democracy itself, all in the name of our security, was now over. In this new day of our national salvation, then — in a post 9/11 America that had seen 3,000 of its inhabitants murdered by terrorists — it was now acceptable to characterize strenuous efforts to avert more such catastrophes as “expediency.” It was not only acceptable, but proof of a higher moral intelligence.

In one week he’s got ACORN on the dole, got those unemployed jihadis at Gitmo back in the workforce (albeit to a dead end job), frozen all tribunals in process (which was the complaint wasn’t it?) to appease the ACLU, Gaia-fy what was left of the economy into bankruptcy, lose the deed to America’s financial house in a crapshoot down the treacherous twists and turns of Barney Frank’s dark alley and provided Iran with four years of propaganda about what a sissy he’s going to be.

How do you top this without having your “Do You Like Me?  Yes,  No, Maybe” note to Hugo Chavez intercepted by the UN Secretary General and read aloud in front of the rest of the class?

It’s enough to recall the salmonella days of Jimmeh Carter’s peanut butter Presidency.

Check it out for yourself.

Where’s a modern day Jeane Kirpatrick when you need her?

When our Marines, sent to Lebanon on a multinational peacekeeping mission with the consent of the United States Congress, were murdered in their sleep, the “blame America first crowd” didn’t blame the terrorists who murdered the Marines, they blamed the United States.

But then, they always blame America first.

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn’t blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

But then, they always blame America first.

When Marxist dictators shoot their way to power in Central America, the San Francisco Democrats don’t blame the guerrillas and their Soviet allies, they blame United States policies of 100 years ago.

But then, they always blame America first.

The American people know better.

They know that Ronald Reagan and the United States didn’t cause Marxist dictatorship in Nicaragua, or the repression in Poland, or the brutal new offensives in Afghanistan, or the destruction of the Korean airliner, or the new attacks on religious and ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, or the jamming of western broadcasts, or the denial of Jewish emigration, or the brutal imprisonment of Anatoly Shcharansky and Ida Nudel, or the obscene treatment of Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner, or the re-Stalinization of the Soviet Union.

The American people know that it’s dangerous to blame ourselves for terrible problems that we did not cause.

They understand just as the distinguished French writer, Jean Francois Revel, understands the dangers of endless self- criticism and self-denigration.

He wrote: “Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.”

With the election of Ronald Reagan, the American people declared to the world that we have the necessary energy and conviction to defend ourselves, and that we have as well a deep commitment to peace.

Clearly, she was as right then as she is now.   We now have a President who blames America – first, last and always.

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