Dangers to US Liberty

    I suppose we all know that people's attitudes and actions are based primarily on their experiences. This was never more obvious than in the speeches that I heard last evening from the Republican National Convention.
    John McCain spent several years as a prisoner of war. His attitude for the United States is to look at our position through the perspective of our military capability in comparison with other countries. He does this from the point of view that a strong offense is a strong defense. He could be classed as a warmonger. This is an unbalanced view of what the US position should be with respect to the rest of the world. Unfortunately, he had a number of cheering supporters for his speech. This is the culture of John McCain.
    Condoleezza Rice remembers how as a child she was restricted from using public toilets and drinking fountains reserved for whites. She grew up under a combination of public racial suppression and parental encouragement. She spent several years as Secretary of State for George Bush. She looks at the United States as having the responsibility to right all wrongs in the international world. She promotes democracy and nation rebuilding at the risk of destroying her home country and in spite of the fact that nationbuilding for Korea was a partial failure, coupled with complete failures for Vietnam, Libya, Egypt, Afghanistan, and now an interest in Syria. This also is an unbalanced view of what the US position should be with respect to the rest of the world. Unfortunately, she had a number of cheering supporters for her speech. This is the culture of Condoleezza Rice.
    With those two dangerous perspectives aside, we fortunately had a number of speeches from people of what we might call the average backgrounds in the American culture. All of these were typical of the boy or girl next door whose dad and mother were either new immigrants making it in a new country or blue-collar truck drivers or miners building their future and that of their family through hard work. In some instances, the parents were entrepreneurs, developing new businesses which also positively affected their sons and daughters. Who were these people at the convention who represented the "normal "culture of the US? They were all the rest. Rand Paul, Sen. Rob Portman, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Gov. Mike Huckabee, Gov. Susana Martinez, Representative Paul Ryan, Gov. Scott Walker, Gov. Chris Christie, and others. This is the culture of America.
    Another person, who had no part in the convention, should also be considered in this context. That is Pres. Obama. Without dwelling on the authenticity of a birth certificate and other items related to the legality of his authorization to be President, let us look at his background. He was not born nor raised in the continental United States. In that respect he was never part of the "boy next door" culture involving normal parental control, kids baseball, teenage dating, automobiles, work after school, etc. He had no average American life of being raised in a traditional US environment by normal parents. He was also partially at least subjected to the same biases and restrictions as those of Condoleezza Rice. He spent considerable growing up time in countries outside the United States, including Indonesia and possibly Kenya. With this background, he was by no means an average American boy. With that background, he also had no opportunity to understand typical American culture. He did not sing "America the Beautiful" in grammar school nor recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Similar to John McCain and Condoleezza Rice, Pres. Obama has an unbalanced view of what the US position should be with respect to the rest of the world. He does not look at the US with a feeling of patriotism and "belonging". He looks at the US position in foreign terms, as an outsider looking at the whole picture of how the US "should be in his estimation" with respect to the rest of the world
    Many speakers last evening said the US has a uniqueness in being part of an idea, which is essentially freedom. It is the intention of these same speakers not to continue wandering from our basic aspirations such as we have in the last several years of leadership by Pres. Obama. In effect, Pres. Obama is not only a radical danger to the US, he is a destructive force. Almost similarly, Sen. McCain and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are radical dangers to the reconstruction of the US along the basic lines of this country's freedom.