Obama's Patriotism Oration

Here's Steve Sailer doing what he does best: pointing out the absurdities of our political class:

Obama gave a big speech on patriotism in Independence, Missouri, the equivalent of his then-much celebrated race speech in Philadelphia.

"On a spring morning in April of 1775, a simple band of colonists ... They did so not on behalf of a particular tribe or lineage, but on behalf of a larger idea. The idea of liberty. ...

Throughout my life, I have always taken my deep and abiding love for this country as a given."

I guess this is how he would explain that there is absolutely no mention of his deep and abiding love for his country in his 442-page autobiographical "Story of Race and Inheritance:" It's "a given." He didn't have any room to mention it.

As I pointed out yesterday, the O is clearly saying that loyalty to land and people don’t define patriotism, but “noble” ideas do. Check out the second paragraph of his talk -– the “simple band of colonists” who took up arms against the British empire, we're told, "did so not on behalf of a particular tribe or lineage, but on behalf of a larger idea."

And of course, he’s wrong — Otis, Adams, and others based their actions on how Parliament had violated their traditional rights as Englishmen. The American Revolution was a conservative revolution — it aimed at restoring historical standards of how citizens are to be treated by their government, rather than inventing new standards.