Last week when President Obama spoke at the annual Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s Awards Gala he ran off a list of peoples who came to this country to form its fabric. The Dutch, French, Brits, Mexicans (to a cheer) and Native Americans. Then he explained that they all worked pretty well together with minor frictions here and there until the formation of the United States as a country. It was THEN that everything went to hell. Maybe the president never studied History, or maybe he likes to make things up as he goes.
In the president’s La-La version of American History here sat a pristine continent populated by loving Natives who were walking through life in some kind of peyote funk communing with nature and having a love-fest with each other. When Europeans came along, they all met the indigenous people and joined them in this peyote smoking bliss strolling through this wilderness paradise like kids in a romper room until the Ugly Americans showed up and destroyed it all. This is not the first time he has plundered history for just enough facts to interlace with his personal hatred of the United States to spin his conciliatory tale. Obama’s not quite clear about where these Ugly Americans came from, but why harsh the mellow?
Pardon my incredulity, but what the HELL is he talking about??
I know he gets a lot of his history from Reverend Wright who loves to bend all Evil in the world back to white America, but a little reality might help break them away from a bad kids’ movie approach to the history of this continent.
In the real world the native tribes of the Americas hated each other and were at constant war. They were famous for slaughtering their enemies, cannibalism, enslaving those who were not killed, pillaging villages, burning huge portions of the country, raping the women and being as base as their European, Asian and African counterparts. When Columbus and his boys came to the New World they got syphilis from the indigenous population and carried it back to Europe creating an epidemic that wiped out millions almost as tragic as The Plague – not the other way around. I have no idea who started all this idealistic history that is based in anger toward the United States, but they are living in another world – probably helped along by that peyote cloud I referenced earlier – and making this stuff up to fit their vision of the world.
The Europeans that came to the New World were at war with each other through most of their history here. They fought whenever they saw each other. If you go to any islands in the Caribbean or travel along the east coast there are old forts from the empires that came here. Those forts were built to fight against other empires who were trying to kill off those who built the forts. I wonder if Obama ever heard of the French and Indian War? Apparently not, or it didn’t fit into his fantasy tale.
I don’t know why I waste my breath, Obama does not care about reality – only his version of it.
The part of the speech that had me rolling my eyes was when he said the Mexicans came here and interacted with the Europeans. Mexicans?? Really? The Spaniards came here, not the Mexicans. In colonial times what is Mexico today was a colony of Spain. For those of you who are a product of our public school system, the United States declared independence from England in 1776. Mexico became a country in 1823. That means the United States had thrown out the empires before Mexico was ever created, so Obama’s version of history is incorrect (charitably speaking). There was no Mexico to come here and interact with the French, Dutch or English like Obama tells the story! Those people were from Spain. In spite of Obama’s fantasyland telling of the story, the Spanish came and destroyed the cultures they encountered in what is now Mexico and Central America. They did not come here and live in harmony with the natives or the other empires.
The problem with the Obama history of America is that it’s convoluted, indulgent and made up to fit the particular group he was speaking to, just as much of his material is ‘spun’ to fit his audience. His whole strategy is to make the United States look like the Israel of the New World. Here we are, plunked down in the New World “imposing” the country in the middle of a paradise that would be great without us. No one wanted us here and we should be removed. Nothing could be further from the truth – but we are talking about Obama who has no room for the truth when it doesn’t fit into his view of the world. It’s not just our history of Manifest Destiny that grew our country, had we allowed ourselves to remain part of the British Empire little would be different, just where we send our exorbitant taxes and where we get our leaders changes.
In Obama’s view the United States is imposed here in the New World and we should be punished for our presence. His view is narrow and racist. The history of the whole world is about conquest and the establishment of countries. That’s the way it is. All this hand-wringing namby-pambiness is nothing more than fantasy imposed over reality to make the country he leads into the bad-guy thus creating more victims. And THAT is what Obama is really about – creating victims and imposing divisions between people so he can carve them up into voting blocks for pandering. Mr. President, quit giving our enemies reasons to hate us and those who want to overrun our borders incorrect history lessons to fan their flames of hatred.
America deserves better.
