This caught my eye over at The Corner last night – a riff on Rudy Giuiliani’s saying that he doesn’t believe Obama loves America (emphasis mine):
Obama Loves America, in His Fashion
I think Obama does love America; he just has a funny way of showing it. Some people see love as a partnership: “I love you, so I want to support you and reassure you and help you achieve all your goals.”
But there’s also the type of person who sees love as a project: “You’re a total mess, but because I love you, I’m going to make you lose 20 pounds and get rid of those awful clothes and find you some new friends to hang out with and tell you what to read and improve your taste in wine and get that squeaky sound in your car fixed and maybe get you off your butt a little bit on weekends, darling.”
Obama’s love for America is of the second type.
That latter part? I don’t call that “love” at all in any fashion – that’s a desire for control. It shows that one doesn’t love who you are – only what they want you to be. Love is acceptance – a power hungry micro-dictator that demands you do as he says and only that way is an acceptable outcome is not a person that “loves” you – you are a mere trophy for “look what I did” . If any of my girlfriends (yes, I very dimly remember not being married – but only very dimly) had ever tried that on me, I would have left her in a heartbeat. TMEW has only requested one thing of me – early on, she requested that I stop multitasking when she was talking with me. I realized it was offputting even though I KNEW what she was saying – love said “just stop”. Hard thing for me to do at the time, but done. Not because she FORCED me to – it was a simple request. Love was the reason it was accepted.
Government is not “love” nor can it love. It is only process, paperwork, and force. And it is clear that Obama has no problem with the last to use the first two to make us, free people, do as he wants so as to evolve us into what he wants.
No, this is not love – it is coercion not dissimilar to the old style monarchies.
But America is not a personal relationship, per se. The above analogy fails – Obama is not working on a single person but an entire nation with a whole spectrum as to THEIR Pursuit of Happiness. But that doesn’t seem to much matter to him – he proclaimed that he would transform America to be in HIS Pursuit of Happiness and that we all should conform to his fundamental transformational vision.
He doesn’t love America as it is – only what he believes it should be. With that, I believe Rudy Giuiliani is right. Else why does he want to change it
