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The Foreigners Obama Needs to Love to Prove He Loves America

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Netanyahu's UN presentation

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: If you don’t love him, you don’t love America, Ed Rogers suggests.

Defending Rudy Giuliani’s assertion that he doesn’t believe Barack Obama “loves America,” Republican lobbyist and Washington Post blogger Ed Rogers (2/23/15) says “there are plenty of reasons that suggest Obama might not love America as it is or in the traditional sense.”

Funnily enough, most of these reasons seem to have little to with America, in either a traditional or non-traditional sense, but instead involve a set of foreign countries that one apparently has to take a stand on one way or the other to be a true American.

For example, here are a few of the things Rogers cites Obama as either criticizing or being insufficiently enthusiastic about, thereby suggesting that he “doesn’t exactly see America as the light in the darkness or as the world’s best hope”:

  • “our loyal ally, the prime minister of Israel”
  • Winston Churchill
  • “the Christian Crusaders of 900 years ago”

It’s not clear why you should have to embrace any foreign politician, living or dead, in order to prove that you love America–much less endorse Western Europe’s efforts to colonize the Eastern Mediterranean 400 years before Europe was aware that America existed.

Slowpoke: "Obama Doesn't Love America Like I Do!" (Jen Sorensen)

Jen Sorensen points out the flaw in the “Obama doesn’t love America because he loves ISIS” argument.

There are also a number of people or places that Obama needs to hate more if he’s going to satisfy Republicans that he truly loves America:

  • Venezuela, Iran, North Korea–“America’s enemies” that he “agree[d] to meet unconditionally with”
  • Cuba and Russia–“traditional enem[ies]” that he is “quick to let…have their way”
  • “Islamic terrorists” whom he “leave[s] the impression that he doesn’t want to offend” because he “won’t even put the words ‘Islamic’ and ‘terrorist’ together”

Does it need to be pointed out groups like ISIS are not at all offended to be called “Islamic,” and actually much prefer it when people refer to them that way, which is why ISIS has “Islamic State” in its name?

Closer to home, there are two Americans mentioned whose connections to Obama are presented as indications that he “doesn’t really care”: “the perpetually aggrieved Rev. Al Sharpton” and Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, described as a “civil rights lawyer” who “tends to look for grievances.”

Apparently, in the domestic sphere, shunning people of color who have “grievances” is the sum total of what it means to “love America.”


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