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Does Obama love America the way you and I do?
By Paul Gleiser | February 22, 2008 | 
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Michelle Obama said earlier this week that this is the first time in her adult life that she has been proud of her country. Later she tried to explain the remark but the damage was done.That remark set Peggy Noonan thinking in The Wall Street Journal.
Are the Obamas, at bottom, snobs? Do they understand America? Are they of it? Did anyone at their Ivy League universities school them in why one should love America? Do they confuse patriotism with nationalism, or nativism? Are they more inspired by abstractions like “international justice” than by old visions of America as the city on a hill, which is how John Winthrop saw it, and Ronald Reagan and JFK spoke of it?
Topics: Barak Obama, Democrats |