AMERICA(We the People): NOT AN OBAMANATION - A Patriotic Manifesto

Throughout the first year of this campaign, against all predictions to the contrary, we saw how hungry the American people were for this message of unity. Despite the temptation to view my candidacy through a purely racial lens, we won commanding victories in states with some of the whitest populations in the country. In South Carolina, where the Confederate flag still flies, we built a powerful coalition of African-Americans and white Americans.

And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning, in the pulpit and in the pews. The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright's sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour of American life occurs on Sunday morning. That anger is not always productive; indeed, all too often it distracts attention from solving real problems; it keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity within the African-American community in our condition, and prevents the African-American community from forging the alliances it needs to bring about real change. But the anger is real; it is powerful. And to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races.

AMERICA(We the People): NOT AN OBAMANATION

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Tonight, I can tell you that we are fulfilling that commitment. Thanks to our extraordinary men and women in uniform, our civilian personnel, and our many coalition partners, we are meeting our goals. As a result, starting next month, we will be able to remove 10,000 of our troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, and we will bring home a total of 33,000 troops by next summer, fully recovering the surge I announced at West Point. After this initial reduction, our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace as Afghan security forces move into the lead. Our mission will change from combat to support. By 2014, this process of transition will be complete, and the Afghan people will be responsible for their own security.

We do know that peace cannot come to a land that has known so much war without a political settlement. So as we strengthen the Afghan government and security forces, America will join initiatives that reconcile the Afghan people, including the Taliban. Our position on these talks is clear: They must be led by the Afghan government, and those who want to be a part of a peaceful Afghanistan must break from al Qaeda, abandon violence, and abide by the Afghan constitution. But, in part because of our military effort, we have reason to believe that progress can be made.

The FBI is still gathering the facts about what happened in San Bernardino, but here is what we know. The victims were brutally murdered and injured by one of their coworkers and his wife. So far, we have no evidence that the killers were directed by a terrorist organization overseas, or that they were part of a broader conspiracy here at home. But it is clear that the two of them had gone down the dark path of radicalization, embracing a perverted interpretation of Islam that calls for war against America and the West. They had stockpiled assault weapons, ammunition, and pipe bombs. So this was an act of terrorism, designed to kill innocent people.

Fourth, with American leadership, the international community has begun to establish a process -- and timeline -- to pursue ceasefires and a political resolution to the Syrian war. Doing so will allow the Syrian people and every country, including our allies, but also countries like Russia, to focus on the common goal of destroying ISIL -- a group that threatens us all.

We also need to make it harder for people to buy powerful assault weapons like the ones that were used in San Bernardino. I know there are some who reject any gun safety measures. But the fact is that our intelligence and law enforcement agencies -- no matter how effective they are -- cannot identify every would-be mass shooter, whether that individual is motivated by ISIL or some other hateful ideology. What we can do -- and must do -- is make it harder for them to kill.

Thousands upon thousands of people, many of them soldiers dressed in camouflage, gathered to pay their respects and hear the president. The shooting killed 12 soldiers and 1 civilian, injured 29 others and left a nation stunned and searching for answers.

Wake up America! Unite and vote in 2022-2024 to continue draining this anti-American socialist swamp. Vote to bring back Washington D.C. conservative politics that represent, secure and protect we-the-people's freedoms, liberty and Constitutional rights. We also need to win this battle on college campuses.

Obama: "One of the things we try to do is meet with all parties. I met President Kibaki, I met Uhuru Kenyatta, I was with Raila Odinga. We met the government, met the opposition and met other groups such as human rights activists. What I try to do is give a consistent message on what I think U.S.-Kenya relations should be, but not to suggest somehow that I think one party is better than the other. That's for the Kenyan people to decide."

"Finally, ethnic-based tribal politics has to stop," Obama said in his speech at the University of Nairobi on Aug. 28, 2006. "It is rooted in the bankrupt idea that the goal of politics or business is to funnel as much of the pie as possible to one's family, tribe, or circle with little regard for the public good. It stifles innovation and fractures the fabric of the society. Instead of opening businesses and engaging in commerce, people come to rely on patronage and payback as a means of advancing. Instead of unifying the country to move forward on solving problems, it divides neighbor from neighbor."

Prof. Acemoglu had an interview with a Japanese weekly, Nikkei Business. He talked about his The Narrow Corner: The States, Societies and The Fate of Liberalism.Prof. Fukuyama's The End of History sold very well in Japan, too. But it was a Cinderella story. His view was Hegelian. History does not have any end toward which it inevitably moves. A good balance between the power of society and that of the state cannot be struck by technical or industrial engineering. It is a historical accident that obtained in the West. . Gregory Clark, a son of the famous British-Australian economist, lives in Japan. He was asked in 2001 by a Japanese newspaper what was in his view the single most important experience of the human kind during the past two thousand years A.D. He said, "The rise and development of feudalism in Western Europe. It shored up and strengthened people' political consciousness." There was another part in the world which had the experience, Japan. There was some difference between two feudalisms, but it inculcated and nourished the mind of obligation (George Sansom, Japan : A Short Cultural History, The Cresset ``Press, 1962 ).",,,the nation-state and its society grew out of the medieval kingdom and feudalism in whose framework the family and household unit have an importance unequaled in classical antiquity...the royal household, representing a given territorial region and ruling the feudal lords as primus inter pares, did not pretend, like an absolute ruler, to be the head of one family. The medieval 'nation' was a conglomeration of families; its members did not think of themselves as members of one family comprehending the whole nation (Hannah Arendt, The Portable Hannah Arendt, edited by Peter Baehr, Penguin Books, p.220.)"Human Rights Diplomacy was introduced by President Carter. Now that it has limits and cannot extend, and the West cannot build a liberal regime, beyond its proper boundaries, the West faces serious challenges. It has got to live and protect its own liberalism among the international jungles of despotism, authoritarianism and the like.The challenges come not simply from without; they are coming from within, too.Economic liberalism has done a lot of irreparable damage to external environments, but it has done a lot of harm to our decent culture, destroying that delicate balance between the two powers of the state and the society. Young people are exposed to Darwinian competition for mere survival and the first thing they have got to learn is economic and industrial technique rather than cultural and liberal arts and they cannot take time for their own cultural self-education. Economic liberalism has cut into the foundation of our society. The homo economicus has become overwhelmingly large, and the citizen, who is essential for maintaining good society, has been overwhelmingly dwarfed. Liberalism is disappearing within from the liberal part of the world.Prof. Acemoglu mentioned the mistakenly so-called militarism of the Japanese 1930s in his interview. "What we now have in Japan is the organization of society for the war with China (which started from an accident near the Marco Polo Bridge on the night of July 7, 1932), the mobilization of its resources and of its spirit. The parliament still plays a role. Public opinion is not manufactured, as there are still independent sources influencing it. Censorship is strict, as is expected during a war, but magazines , even those for the wider public, are not yet deprived of their freedom of expression. The soldiers returning from China are not a passive material to be absorbed by a fascist ideology - at least not at the present time. They are disillusioned, but of just those ideals which form the ideological basis of fascism (Emil Lederer, State of The Masses: The Threat of The Classless Society, Howard Fertig, 1940, reprinted in 1967 by W. W. Norton), " as I (Michi) quoted in my (Michi's) thirty-six comments on a commentary that appeared in an Australian online opinion commentary. Masao Maruyama, professor of Tokyo, was well-known in the oversee academic circles. He has the same view in Thought and Behavior in Modern Japanese Politics. I (Michi) also quoted from Ben-Amy Shillony, that "When one realizes how tenuous and frail democracy is elsewhere in the world, and how strong is the tendency towards arbitrary rule , one may conclude by wondering not why democracy failed in Japan, but rather how, despite the undemocratic tradition and the pressure of war, a totalitarian dictatorship did not evolve there (Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981.) " There were a number of influential elite groups, and the army was simply one of them, divided within itself. Edwin O. Reischauer says, "The Japanese experience is often compared to the fascism of interwar Europe, and certainly the resemblances are in some ways striking. But, unlike the Italian and German cases, there was no dictator and the system was not the product of a well defined popular movement, but more a vague change of mood, a shift in the balance of power between the elite groups in Japanese society, and a consequent shift in national politics... (The Japanese, Charles E. Tuttle, 1978.)"John Lee is a non-resident senior fellow at the US Studies Center and the Hudson Institute. He wrote a commentary, Australia can't afford to bite its tongue on China, December 11, 2020 at an Australian online opinion forum. I, Michi, sent the thirty-six comments on it.www.onlineopinion.com.au/view. asp?article=21233. 2ff7e9595c