Thursday, June 04, 2009

Fear Of Humility

The biggest problem President Obama has with Republicans and Conservatives is their constant misinterpretation and distortion of his humility.

Unless you are brow-beating your base with "we are the best country in the world", "we are #1", "we are exceptional", "the rest of the world should be lucky to have us around", and all the other baseless claims of the untraveled and unenlightened, they see you as weak and apologetic.

Even if you were the best at something, there is no need to keep on repeating. It's juvenile. Insecure about something?

And let's face it, if it's a politician telling you, you know you have to take it with a grain of salt.

Obama has the reigns of a powerful world power, if not the biggest most powerful country in the world. Why does he have to keep on repeating that fact when in foreign countries?

It is the weakest of intellectuals that fear the humility of Obama. "Speak softly and carry a big stick" was Teddy Roosevelt's motto. Seeing how far war and the fake cowboy poseur has gotten us, it's about time we learn from those mistakes and speak in a way the rest of the world wants to listen to.

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