Memory Lapse

Nothing like a mid-term shellacking to improve one's memory.  This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Vice President Joe Biden said that America needs to "remember who we are."  This was in response to a question about how we regain our competitiveness in the world market.  Forget for a moment that for the last twenty-two months his boss has tried in vain to erase our collective memories and diffuse our status as a superpower all around the globe.  Over the course of the last two years, Barack Obama has told the world that we are not a Christian nation, that we are no more exceptional than anyone else, and most recently that the U. S. was no longer in a position to "meet the rest of the world economically on our terms."

I agree with Mr. Biden that, we, as a country, should remember who we are and return to the policies and practices that have sustained us, and can continue to sustain our power and influence around the globe.  And for the most part, that would mean an abject rejection of the Obama policies.  Which again, for the most part, were rejected by the American electorate earlier this month.  So Mr. Vice President, instead of reminding us who we are, remind Mr. Obama.  Tell him to stop the apology tours and stop  the reordering of the world's dominant players.  Tell him to stop punishing our producers and stop rewarding our failures.  Tell him to listen to the American people and to stop ignoring us because we don't know what's good for us.  And finally, tell him that American's are comfortable with leading, even if he's not.