Obama, Fareed Zakaria, CNN, MSNBC and Our Left: The European Obsession

We in the United States used to, correctly, look down on the European welfare states as part of the past that we had to bail out and save--even as the people of Europe have always tended to loook at the people of the United States as barbarians. We were the fresh, energetic contry with the new ideas, and we showed the decadent, effete snobs of Europe how it should be done.


Now some of our elites have always been attracted by Europe. John Adams was accused of being corrupted--accused mainly falsely--by his stay in Britan: accused of wanting to bring the British system of monarchy to the new American nation he did more than anyone to found. Thomas Jefferson--a little too in love with revolution, as our media is a little too in love with revolutioin in the Arab contries--was accused of favoring the French. But, from the beginnig, the United States has been dEFINED by our REJECTION of the European model of how to do things. Now our entire left, inclulding our President and mainstream media, seem to have adopted the idea that Europe and the "world community" should define us. Our President seems unwilling to even act on the world stage without European approval. This is all ture, even as things seem to be going as badly in Europe as they ever have. The "pubil" health care system in the UK is a joke. The economies of Europe, except--perhaps--Germany appear to be collapsing. Why would we want to be like those countries? Beats me.


See my previous article, which illustrates just how far this OBSESSION with everything European has gone, as CNN endorses the Fareed Zakaria "idea' of SCRAPPING our system of government, and substituting a European system. CNN obviously believes that Jefferson, Adams, et. al.. , got it worng, and that John Adams SHOULD have set up a British system here. You can see where Obama--a man of the left--got his idea that the European way is the best way. That is how Obama could talk about ordianry Americans: "clinging to their guns and their religion, and taking out their frustrations on people different from themselves."


The left is actually sensitive to this obvioius obsession of Obama and the left with the European way. I saw Chris Matthews, on MSNBC, doing his best to assert that bringing up this "European obsession" was just an attempt to label Obama as "different", and therefore not worthy of respect. Yep. In effect, Matthews was tryong to say that any attempt to point out Obama's European obsession was RACIST (a standard, of course, that the hypocrites of MSNBC do not apply to crticism, and even mockery, of black conservative Herman Cain). To me, this absurd attempt by Matthews to defelct criticism shows that the left KNOWS that the PEOPLE of America don't believe we should adopt the Europeans as our standard of government and conduct.


We can into the world, as a country, with a frsh new slant: a government based on FREEDOM, including free marktets and a limited central government. That system made lus the greatest country in the world Now our President, and most of our media, want to abandon that system, in faovr of the European model we rejected when we became a country. It is not that everythng European is bad. It is that it betrays our very creatinon as a country to use the Europeans as a MODEL of how we should be.