Restoring the Sacred

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

We just call it Afghanistan, Mr. President.


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Was I the only one bothered by President Obama, when he congratulated Hamid Karzai the other day for being "elected" for a second term as president of (as Obama called it) the "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan?" I hate to be picky, but has anyone ever heard him refer to the U.K, our top ally, as the Parliamentary Democracy of the United Kingdom, or to our good neighbor to the north as the Constitutional Democracy of Canada?

Not only has he never referred to our county as the Christian Republic of the United States of America; he went out of his way, when speaking in the Republican Parliamentary Democracy of Turkey (he did not refer to it that way, but just wait until they adopt Sharia Law and become the Islamic Republic of Turkey), to declare that we do not consider ourselves to be a Christian nation. He better not be counting me in that we.

It gets worse. How does our president refer to that country in Western Asia, the rogue exporter of terrorism throughout the world, determined, in the face of world-wide opposition, to acquire a nuclear bomb with which to obliterate Israel from the face of the earth? That's right: he refers to it as the Islamic Republic of Iran.

I don't think he likes US much. Our former Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, was right when he referred to Barack Obama as our First Post-American President.