Don't let anyone ever tell you that this country is not great, that somehow we need to make it great again. Because this right now is the greatest country on Earth.How short does she imagine our memories could be? When her most memorable former appraisal of the United States was uttered in 2008, when she was 44, also according to Politico:
For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.According to Ms. Obama, all of that "greatness" must have happened in the last nearly 8 years. Does her assertion square with your experience of these years?
The Obama years have brought recession, continued war, terrorism, angry racial polarization, open borders, political correctness, sexting, men in women's restrooms, assassination of police, a broken political process in both parties, the near-death of U.S. manufacturing, historic levels of workforce nonparticipation, interest rates near zero, a doubling Federal deficit, metrosexuals, a tattooed generation, plummeting birth rates and designer street drugs.
Not to mention a vast loss of international prestige and influence, the rise of China and rebirth of militant Russia, and metastasizing political Islam while our military shrinks.
I'd say we have a ways to go to achieve greatness. Looking at that list, I believe you'll agree.
