Well, it’s been an official holiday since the late 50s — and yet somehow when Obama re-proclaims it, it takes on a particularly creepy kind of vibe.
— Probably because Obama is an obvious Marxist whose handlers played on white guilt and false promises of “pragmatism” to get him elected President of what used to be a very very anti-Marxist, pro free-market capitalism country.
If I had to guess.
Oh come on Jeff, the man’s got him some righteous Bin Laden-killer vibe going on right now.
It just takes time — yes, three point three years is time — before he’s right twice a day. Like clockwork.
In related news, I hear from major rightwing bloggers that he’s all the way down to neck and neck with the Presumptive Republican Nominee!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/black_teen_run_off_the_liberal_plantation.html
“I pledge allegiance to Teh Won of the 57 United States of America, and to the republic for which he was sent to us from Heaven: one nation, under Barack, divisible, with liberty and justice for all who sing hosannas to his name five times every day.”
Obama can loyally suck a bag of dicks I think
Text of Obama’s Afghan speech here.
Short version.
“I have eliminated al Qaeda, the Taliban are fine with me.” “One war over and the second one almost there.”
” Victory?” “WTF is that?”
” We as a nation will not be worthy of the sacrifices of our military until you re-elect me and I finish the transformation of the nation.”
Jeff,
You forgot the “Forward!” at the end of the post.
I think most presidents before him since Kennedy have noted some sort of “Loyalty Day”.
Doesn’t excuse it in any way, but this particular egregious exercise to promote the welfare of the government instead of the principles elucidated and enumerated in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution isn’t any worse under Obama than it was under Kennedy, Bush, Clinton, etc. If anything it just helps further cement the persistance of a ruling class at odds with what we believe America really is or ought to be.
Remember Samuel Johnson saying that patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel?
charlesaustin, yeah, but I’ve grown less patient in my advancing years. I’m straight up agains thte Pledge of Allegiance now, for example. Back in the 1940s, apparently people thought it was an eery repetition of Hitler’s youth propaganda compaigns — and they were right. (Who the hell in a free society pledges undying fealty to the state?) So, they stuck in the ‘under God” part, and, bingo! It’s all Christian and nice, right?
And people bought it.
And now they make little kids swear obedience to a nationstate, above all else.
The typos show that I really mean what I’m saying. It’s all, like, passionate and stuff.
“I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States and swear to defend it against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And I mean it. The end.”
i like the part about the libertah and the justice for all
except yeah i always feel like you’re supposed to say “amen” at the end
I pledge allegiance
(grudgingly under the unwanted duress of social pressure to conform)
to the flag
(Which is to many a symbol of violence, war, robbery, and racism similar to the Swastika and the Confederate Battle Flag)
of the United States of America
(the worst,most violent, greedy, lazy, uncouth, unfair, unequal, fat, stupid, money hungry country in history, and the center of all that is currently wrong in the world, is destroying the earth’s environment, and has it coming when anything bad happens to it)
And to the republic
(as represented by unions, a sufficiently radical left academy, “the press”, various aggrieved minority groups, and the social laboratory schemes of progressive activists)
for with it stands
(founded by old white racist slave holders who saw women as unfit to participate in the choosing of government, and fat angry white men who are too stupid to see the need for rapid changes in every aspect of individual life, state run property confiscation, and the umbrella of a centrally run command economy)
One nation
(formerly, nominally, though now it’s divided into the have and have nots, the elites in NY and California and a bunch of losers in fly-over country, lots of spreading cracks to see now)
under God
(who isn’t real, and the belief in which causes people to go to war and lie to one another and vote against progressive ideals thus violating one’s own self interest as a historical actor in the war of dialectics)
indivisible
(except for that one time…)
with liberty and justice for all
(cough cough bullshit! cough!).
I remember thinking the Jehovah’s Witness kids who didn’t pledge were disloyal, possibly Commie-types who bore watching when I was in the fourth grade. In high school I don’t remember saying the pledge, except at assemblies. In college, not at all. The year I taught high school, they pledged every morning and didn’t say amen, which I don’t remember saying as a kid, either.
It’s not harmful, the pledge itself isn’t inflamatory and it’s a good reminder of who we’re supposed to be as a people. Since the “under God” part is not part of the original pledge, it should be dropped, imo.
I always feel honored to say the pledge allegiance.
You can skip the “under God” part if you want leigh, or the whole thing if you want Sunny, no one makes you say it.
Myself, when it seems appropriate to say it, I’m still going to say it with pride, under God and all…
We said a prayer in school everyday. Usually the Lord’s Prayer.
I plunge some leeches to the hog
Of the untied snakes of america
And to the repulsive
For witch’s stains
One navel
Under gauze
Indigestible
With giblets and gravy for all.
I went to school in Canada 3rd thru 9th grades, and didn’t get to say the pledge.
It actually meant something when I moved to Wyoming and recited it. Sent a thrill up my leg…
I felt a lot better about the pledge back when America remembered that it was America and not Sweden.
I thought every day was Loyalty day…