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William Flax · Guest

At first blush, it sounds like a nice attitude, when Senator Obama states
that he will never question another man's patriotism. But a closer look
will reveal how inappropriate it would be for the Senator to ever, in fact,
do so.

While Senator Obama may be technically allowed to run for President, if he
was in fact born in the United States--the Constitutional requirement;--he
is, at best, only an accidental American. His father did not come here as a
settler, nor as an immigrant. He came here, purely as a student, a citizen
of Kenya, from a small minority tribe in that land on the opposite side of
Africa. He finished his studies and returned home, leaving his wife, of a
brief period, with the baby Senator. She then removed the baby Senator to
Indonesia--apparently to avoid the association of other Americans--but
eventually the young Obama came back here.

It is only because so many Americans have been conditioned by Leftist
academics and the media to be embarrassed in taking pride in their own
heritage and lines of descent, that the accident of Senator Obama's
Americanism is not the subject for humor at every dinner table; at the bar
in every pub; on vehicles of public transportation; and in a million phone
calls by the hour. Yet somehow, this new indifference to family and
ethnicity, does not fit in a land which used to be described in our song,
"America," as "land where my fathers died." One supposes that the new
version will read, "land that my father visited."

Yes, folks, somehow that does not quite seem like the way that "preserved
us a nation," in The Star Spangled Banner.

William Flax
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