No Respect

Our problem in this country?  No Respect.  For anything.  We have lampooned and demeaned every last institution in the country, a slow motion French Revolution where even the highest offices of government and church leaders do not escape the rhetorical torches and pitchforks.  We've set it all ablaze and we dance with glee as we watch it burn.

We didn't earn it, so we don't respect it
We are ignorant of our history.  We only hear the Howard Zinn versions now, being screamed out by blasphemous preachers from their pulpits of anger and resentment. 

President Obama was proselytizing his fellow international cosmopolitans when he reduced American exceptionalism to patriotic self-delusion:

"I believe in American exceptionalism," Barack Obama said, "just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."

"It's all in your minds, you jingoistic morons!  Get over it.  Your stinking country is no better than than Greece or West Stinkhole-istan!"
And the cognoscenti applaud...  (Read More)