Pat Boone re: President Obama

The president without a country
By Pat Boone

 

"We're no longer a Christian nation." - President

Barack Obama, June 2007


" America has been arrogant." - President

Barack Obama


 

"After 9/11, America didn't always live up to

her ideals."- President Barack Obama


 

"You might say that America is a Muslim nation."

 President Barack Obama, Egypt 2009


Thinking about these and other statements made

by the man who wears the title of president. I

keep wondering what country he believes he's

president of.


In one of my very favorite stories, Edward Everett

Hale's "The Man without a Country," a young Army

lieutenant named Philip Nolan stands condemned for

treason during the Revolutionary War, having come under

the influence of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks him

if he wishes to say anything before sentence is passed,

young Nolan defiantly exclaims, "Damn the United States!

I wish I might never hear of the United States again!"


The stunned silence in the courtroom is palpable, pulsing.

After a long pause, the judge soberly says to the angry

lieutenant: "You have just pronounced your own sentence.

You will never hear of the United States again... I sentence

you to spend the rest of your life at sea, on one or another

of this country's naval vessels - under strict orders that no

one will ever speak to you again about the country you

have just cursed."


And so it was. Philip Nolan was taken away and spent

the next 40 years at sea, never hearing anything but an

occasional slip of the tongue about America. The last

few pages of the story, recounting Nolan's dying hours

in his small stateroom - now turned into a shrine to the

country he fore swore - never fail to bring me to tears.  And

I find my own love for this dream, this miracle called

America , refreshed and renewed. I know how blessed

and unique we are.


But reading and hearing the audacious, shocking statements

of the man who was recently elected our president - a young

black man living the impossible dream of millions of young

Americans, past and present, black and white - I want to ask

him, "Just what country do you think you're president of?"


You surely can't be referring to the United States of America,

 can you? America is emphatically a Christian nation, and has

been from its inception! Seventy percent of her citizens identify themselves as Christian. The Declaration of Independence and

our Constitution were framed, written and ratified by Christians.

It's because this was, and is, a nation built on and guided by

Judeo-Christian biblical principles that you, sir, have had the

inestimable privilege of being elected her president.


You studied law at Harvard, didn't you, sir? You taught

constitutional law in Chicago ? Did you not ever read

the statement of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the

Supreme Court and an author of the landmark "Federalist

Papers": "Providence has given to our people the choice of

their rulers - and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and

interest of our Christian nation - to select and prefer Christians

for their rulers"?


In your studies, you surely must have read the decision

of the Supreme Court in 1892: "Our lives and our

institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody

the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible

that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this

extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically

Christian."


Did your professors have you skip over all the high-court

decisions right up till the mid 1900's that echoed and

reinforced these views and intentions? Did you pick up

the history of American jurisprudence only in 1947, when

for the first time a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson

about a "wall of separation between church and state" was

used to deny some specific religious expression - contrary

 to Jefferson ' s intent with that statement?


Or, wait a minute . were your ideas about America 's

Christianity formed during the 20 years you were a

member of the Trinity United Church of Christ under

your pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Is that where you got the

idea that " America is no longer a Christian nation"? Is

this where you, even as you came to call yourself a

Christian, formed the belief that " America has been

arrogant"?


Even if that's the understandable explanation of your

damning of your country and accusing the whole nation

(not just a few military officials trying their best to keep

more Americans from being murdered by jihadists) of "not

always living up to her ideals," how did you come up with

the ridiculous, alarming notion that we might be "considered

a Muslim nation"?


Is it because there are some 2 million or more Muslims living

here, trying to be good Americans? Out of a current population

of over 300 million, 70 percent of whom are Christians? Does

that make us, by any rational definition, a "Muslim nation"?

Why are we not, then, a "Chinese nation"? A "Korean

nation"? Even a "Vietnamese nation"? There are even

more of these distinct groups in America than Muslims.

And if the distinction you're trying to make is a religious

one, why is America not "a Jewish nation"? There's actually

a case to be made for the latter, because our Constitution

- and the success of our Revolution and founding - owe a deep

debt to our Jewish brothers.


Have you stopped to think what an actual Muslim America

would be like? Have you ever really spent much time

in Iran ? Even in Egypt ? You, having been instructed in Islam

as a kid at a Muslim school in Indonesia and saying you still

love the call to evening prayers, can surely picture our nation

founded on the Quran, not the Judeo-Christian Bible, and living

under Shariah law. Can't you? You do recall Muhammad's

directives [Surah 9:5,73] to "break the cross" and "kill the

infidel"?


It seems increasingly and painfully obvious that you are more

influenced by your upbringing and questionable education

than most suspected. If you consider yourself the president

of a people who are "no longer Christian," who have "failed

to live up to our ideals," who "have been arrogant," and

might even be "considered Muslim" - you are president of a

country most Americans don't recognize.


Could it be you are a president without a country?

 

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