WHY GROVEL
By Maj. Gen. Jerry R. Curry (ret'd)
CurryforAmerica.com
For some
unrevealed reason President Obama finds it necessary to genuflect to the King of
Saudi Arabia and then deny that he did it even though it was caught on film.
Using the same rationale he did not find it necessary to bow to the Queen of
England, yet just a
Few
weeks ago he felt compelled to bow deeply to the Emperor of Japan petty, yes,
mysterious, even more so.
Obama
knows that as President of the United States when he bows or restrains from
bowing to foreign royalty it sends a message. But one has to wonder what message
is he trying to send? Perhaps he is indicating a change in the tone of American
foreign policy signaling that the U.S. no longer intends to support the dollar
as the world’s currency, or perhaps he is signaling that America has wearied of
accepting the heavy responsibilities that come with being the world’s only
remaining super power?
President Obama may be signaling -- as a world citizen and not as President of
the most powerful nation on earth -- his personal admiration for the King of
Arabia and the Emperor of Japan. At the same time others might construe his
actions as sticking a finger directly into the eye of the Queen of England.
Presidents George Washington, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt
and John F. Kennedy would have found such behavior by a President of the United
States intolerable and abhorrent.
Some
might suggest that Obama’s snub of the Queen is only reflective of his attempt
to distance himself from our Founder’s Anglo-American history and values. In the
past he has demonstrated many times in many ways that he does not value what our
Founders fought so valiantly for and for what most British hold dear.
Is this
why he feels and overwhelming need to placate our historical adversaries and to
devalue America in the world’s eyes while at the same time elevating the values
and contributions of other cultures such as those of the Middle-East or Asia. It
is reasonable to wonder where Obama’s true allegiance lies, and why is it so
hard for him to just be proud of America and of being the President of the
United States? Why must he try to be the hope and change element for the entire
world?
In one
of Ronald Reagan’s most famous speeches he describes the United States as a
“Shining City on a Hill,” a beacon of light, hope and freedom not just to
Americans, but to the entire world. President Kennedy would probably be first to
take the position that if there is any genuflecting to be done; it should not be
done by America and its Presidents.
Remember, Obama’s decisions as to when to display deference and when not to
display it are not accidental at all. All photo opportunities in the Obama White
House are carefully planned and orchestrated. First, Obama happily bows to a
“colored king,” after choosing not to bow to a “white queen.” Then just a few
weeks ago he deeply genuflected to a “colored emperor”. Why? Neither he nor any
member of his staff has explained the rationale for his choices to us, the
American people. Surely Obama doesn’t want us to miss the subtle message he is
in the process of sending around the world?
Don’t
the American people deserve to be honestly told and fully informed as to why our
President prostrates himself before certain foreign leaders and does not to
others? What is this really all about? My guess is Obama is bowing, out of some
misguided personal sense of inadequacy, self-loathing or confusion. Yet I think
I can say without any fear of repudiation, that we Americans find it neither
necessary nor desireable to grovel before any nation or people.
Am I
reading too much into Obama’s gestures? Perhaps he simply feels that colored or
male members of royalty merit bows, while white or female members of royalty do
not? Perhaps it is as simple and racist and sexist as that, but I doubt it.
We’re all missing something here, something important, and he needs to tell us
what that is.
Race
aside, had Obama been America’s first president instead of George Washington,
King George III of England might never need to have worried about insurrection
in the American Colonies. Obama would have led the American colonists to
prostrate themselves very respectfully and to continue living in full allegiance
to the British King. America would still be part of the British Empire today.
Fortunately our Founding Fathers were made of sterner stuff. In those days
America’s leaders projected strength, commitment and passion, not just mere
political ambition. Perhaps Obama and his followers are part of a larger
problem? Perhaps it is a lack of understanding of what America is and does and
who Americans really are and how our Founders viewed life and the world? Could
this be why politics in the USA are so broken and petty these days?
One has
to wonder …
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