THE PRESIDENT WITHOUT A COUNTRY

Pat Boone makes a very good case!!

The President without a country

By Pat Boone

"We're no longer a Christian nation." - President Barack Obama, June 2007
"America has been arrogant." - President Barack Obama
"After 9/11, America didn't always live up to her ideals."- President Barack Obama
"You might say that America is a Muslim nation."- President Barack Obama, Egypt 2009

Thinking about these and other statements made by the man who wears the title of president. I keep wondering what country he believes he's president of.

In one of my very favorite stories, Edward Everett Hale's "The Man without a Country," a young Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan stands condemned for treason during the Revolutionary War, having come under the influence of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks him if he wishes to say anything before sentence is passed, young Nolan defiantly exclaims, "Damn the United States ! I wish I might never hear of the United States again!"

The stunned silence in the courtroom is palpable, pulsing. After a long pause, the judge soberly says to the angry lieutenant: "You have just pronounced your own sentence. You will never hear of the United States again.. I sentence you to spend the rest of your life at sea, on one or another of this country's naval vessels - under strict orders that no one will ever speak to you again about the country you have just cursed."

And so it was. Philip Nolan was taken away and spent the next 40 years at sea, never hearing anything but an occasional slip of the tongue about America. The last few pages of the story, recounting Nolan's dying hours in his small stateroom - now turned into a shrine to the country he fore swore - never fail to bring me to tears. And I find my own love for this dream, this miracle called America , refreshed and renewed. I know how blessed and unique we are.

But reading and hearing the audacious, shocking statements of the man who was recently elected our president - a young black man living the impossible dream of millions of young Americans, past and present, black and white - I want to ask him, "Just what country do you think you're president of?"

You surely can't be referring to the United States of America , can you? America is emphatically a Christian nation, and has been from its inception! Seventy percent of her citizens identify themselves as Christian. The Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were framed, written and ratified by Christians. It's because this was, and is, a nation built on and guided by Judeo-Christian biblical principles that you, sir, have had the inestimable privilege of being elected her president.

You studied law at Harvard, didn't you, sir? You taught constitutional law in Chicago ? Did you not ever read the statement of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and an author of the landmark "Federalist Papers": "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers - and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation - to select and prefer Christians for their rulers"?

In your studies, you surely must have read the decision of the Supreme Court in 1892: "Our lives and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian."

Did your professors have you skip over all the high-court decisions right up till the mid 1900's that echoed and reinforced these views and intentions? Did you pick up the history of American jurisprudence only in 1947, when for the first time a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson about a "wall of separation between church and state" was used to deny some specific religious expression - contrary to Jefferson' s intent with that statement?

Or, wait a minute .. were your ideas about America 's Christianity formed during the 20 years you were a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ under your pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Is that where you got the idea that " America is no longer a Christian nation"? Is this where you, even as you came to call yourself a Christian, formed the belief that " America has been arrogant"?

Even if that's the understandable explanation of your damning of your country and accusing the whole nation (not just a few military officials trying their best to keep more Americans from being murdered by jihadists) of "not always living up to her ideals," how did you come up with the ridiculous, alarming notion that we might be "considered a Muslim nation"?

Is it because there are some 2 million or more Muslims living here, trying to be good Americans? Out of a current population of over 300 million, 70 percent of whom are Christians? Does that make us, by any rational definition, a "Muslim nation"?

Why are we not, then, a "Chinese nation"? A "Korean nation"? Even a "Vietnamese nation"? There are even more of these distinct groups in America than Muslims. And if the distinction you're trying to make is a religious one, why is America not "a Jewish nation"? There's actually a case to be made for the latter, because our Constitution - and the success of our Revolution and founding - owe a deep debt to our Jewish brothers.

Have you stopped to think what an actual Muslim America would be like? Have you ever really spent much time in Iran? Even in Egypt? You, having been instructed in Islam as a kid at a Muslim school in Indonesia and saying you still love the call to evening prayers, can surely picture our nation founded on the Quran, not the Judeo-Christian Bible, and living under Shariah law. Can't you? You do recall Muhammad's directives [Surah 9:5,73] to "break the cross" and "kill the infidel"?

It seems increasingly and painfully obvious that you are more influenced by your upbringing and questionable education than most suspected. If you consider yourself the president of a people who are "no longer Christian," who have "failed to live up to our ideals," who "have been arrogant," and might even be "considered Muslim" - you are president of a country most Americans don't recognize.

Could it be you are a president without a country?

SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS

Our country is really in a sad shape, political correctness is ramped and common sense out the window. Looking over the headlines today makes one nauseated!

Rifqa Bary, the 17 year old Muslim turned Christian was told today she will be returned to her Muslim parents in Ohio. The court has determined there is not threat to her life, possible honor killing. Well, I really hope and pray they are right. There are plenty of incidents of such things happening to sons and daughters when they convert to Christianity. I hope that her parents are being truthful and she is safe at home or that with the national publicity they will not carry out what the Koran says to do with Muslims that covert to other religions a.k.a. honor killings. I hope and pray we do not read of her demise after returning home.
Albany Oregon, an apartment complex is banning any flags to be on vehicles or the apartments, including our United States flag. If you do not comply, you will be evicted. The reason given, our flag may offend someone. If you have a flag decal on your car, or if like one father whose son is in Iraq has a flag on the back of his bike, they have to come off. Where do people get this, if you live in this country, and are a citizen, the flag should not offend you. If you are visiting, or here illegally, and the flag offends you, don’t let the door hit you in the behind on the way back to your country.

A six year old boy scout gets suspended from school, and assigned to a 45 day school for troubled children for taking his camping utility tool, like a dumbed down swiss army knife, has a spoon, fork and small knife blade that all fold out to school. He is new to scouting and was proud of his new tool. The school has zero tolerance of weapons, well what about ball bats, hockey sticks etc that can be used as weapons and be lethal? A very strong punishment for a six year old caught with it in his pocket, not open, not threatening anyone, not carving, and poking anything. On the same note, a 17 year old Eagle Scout, who attended Army basic this last summer, is suspended for 20 days for having a 2 inch pocket knife locked in his car. This on his record may keep him from going to West Point. Again, his school has zero tolerance for weapons on school grounds. He kept the pocket knife, food and other items in his car to be prepared for an emergency, like a good Eagle Scout should. Like the six year old, he was not threatening anyone, did not even have it on him, it was locked in his car. Of course like guns, you have to watch them, guns will jump up off of tables etc and shoot people, and knives will lunge off tables and slash people.

The White House is now fighting Fox News, it seems the White House cannot stand criticism. They are upset because Fox does not schmoose up to them like ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC. They are upset because the opinion shows like Hannity, Beck and others point out discrepancies and show video of what they say. They say Fox says things that are not true, but do not sight in detail the lie, probably because it is not a lie. It would seem if they want to fight someone, maybe they should put more effort into fighting the Taliban and Al Queda.

Last but not least, the Health Care Bill. The Democrats are dead set on passing this. I think it is interesting that President Obama calls this version passed by the Senate Finance Committee bipartisan because one republican Senator Snowe voted for it, ha! One republican votes for it and it is now bipartisan. This is a bad deal for America, please watch and listen to what they propose on the floor of the Senate, when they combine the different versions you can bet there will be taxes and higher costs. They are still not addressing TORT reform which will save money, we need no caps on coverage, no pre-existing conditions, interstate purchases of insurance. We do not need more agencies trying to govern us!!! Think about this, the President said the other day we should not worry about a law that mandates everyone buy health insurance, after all, if you own a care you are required to buy car insurance. Well the last I checked, we have the option to buy a car, not everyone owns a car, so if you do not own a car, you do not purchase car insurance. So how does that apply to health insurance, can we op not to be a person? Think about it! Maybe everyone should be forced to buy car insurance even if you don’t own a car, bet that would bring car insurance down.

Emergency Nurses Day

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