Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Letter to the Editor

This letter appeared in the 2/27/2008 edition of the State Journal-Register. A woman called into the local liberal radio call-in show and said she really liked the letter. The host, in typical liberal fashion, accused me of taking Michelle Obama's remarks out of context (which I did not) and then proceeded to go on and on about our Olympic hockey team while completely ignoring everything else I said. No real surprise there.

Idiotic radio talk show hosts aside, here is the letter.


Dear Editor,

I am astounded that Michelle Obama took more than 40 years to find something about the United States of which to be proud. I am only a year younger than Mrs. Obama, yet I can think of many reasons to be proud of our country.

I was proud of America when the Berlin Wall fell down and freedom blossomed in Eastern Europe. I was proud of America when we landed men on the moon. I was proud of America when our Olympic hockey team beat the Soviets. I was proud of America when we came together after 9/11. I was proud of America when we responded with overwhelming generosity to Hurricane Katrina victims or the famine in East Africa during the 1980s or the Indonesian tsunami in 2004. I was proud of America when we got back the first pictures from Viking, Pathfinder, Sojourner, Voyager or a myriad of other spacecraft.

I was proud of America when we removed a brutal tyrant from power in Iraq. I am proud of America every time we win a Nobel Prize in the sciences. I was proud of America when a Canadian woman delivered her quadruplets in one of our hospitals because no hospital in all of Canada had enough neo-natal beds. However, I am most proud of America when a working-class black girl from Chicago gets the privilege to attend Princeton and Harvard. Does this remind you of anyone, Mrs. Obama?

Perhaps I should not be so astounded by Mrs. Obama's attitude. For more than 35 years the Democratic Party has invested itself in running this country down and doing nothing but pointing out our flaws. As a long-time Democratic operative, Mrs. Obama is simply parrotting the only opinions she has ever heard. It's really not her fault. She doesn't know any better. I feel very, very sorry for her.
 

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