Around The MOB: Flyoverguy
By Mitch Berg
One of blogs’ mai purposes is to give people a place to just plain vent. Some do it well. Some find something in it that works for them for a long, long time.
Scud, from Flyoverguy, is one of them.
Flyoverguy started, like a lot of MOB blogs, back in 2004. And Scud’s been writing ever since, although a little less frequently lately. Maybe there’s less to vent about?
I don’t know. But he shares a lot of venting material with an awful lot of people these days:
In short, I don’t root against President Obama because I hate America. I root against President Obama because I hate his vision for America. It is those like President Obama who see America as a dark and dangerous place that requires earth-shaking change along European lines. It is those like President Obama who feel that Americans are nothing special — and that America is nothing special. As Obama himself put it: “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” In other words, America is not exceptional — it’s just because we live here that we feel it is. And the American people are not exceptional — they are merely Greeks or Brits or Russians or Chinese or Frenchmen born within our borders, with values no better or worse than their foreign compatriots. Obama’s belief in America’s unexceptionalism — his view that America’s government, not her people, is the formative force in her values; his view that the American people bear the stain of racial, sexual and military guilt; his view that America must abandon her scrupulous adherence to equality of opportunity in favor of equality of result, traditional morals in favor of alternative ethics, and liberty of enterprise in favor of redistributionism — that set of beliefs is antithetical to what makes America great.
Keep it going, Scud! I’m with ya!
