Jay Ambrose recalls how Obama took America to task for being “selfish”.
Barack Obama, in a discussion with evangelist Rick Warren about his Christian faith, said he had been guilty of a “fundamental selfishness” that had contributed to regrettable youthful behavior. Then he confessed for the rest of us. “Americans’ greatest moral failure in my lifetime,” he said, “has been that we still don’t abide by that basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.
Being familiar with a culture (the Philippines) which expects politicians to “take care” of their relatives, I’m not sure Obama should similarly provide for his siblings. But opportunity is another thing. What America provided Barack, which Kenya didn’t give George in so great a quantity, is opportunity. Opportunity is the greatest form of charity. It allows a person to give to himself. Human talent is distributed pretty evenly among the races. By now there should have been a dozen Einsteins from Africa; a dozen John von Neumans or Bill Gates’ from the Muslim world. But we don’t observe any not because we won’t contribute dollars to Barack Obama’s selflessness boondoggle, but because those countries don’t provide opportunity.
I never cease to be struck by how often an unemployed, shiftless, unmotivated Filipino man can, with a change of context — by migrating to Singapore, Western Europe or the United States — can be transformed by opportunity into a small businessman, successful professional and productive citizen. His genetics didn’t change, but his framework did. And it’s fair bet that if someone gave George Obama a job in a Seven Eleven he’s soon become a store manager, and in time, leave to start his own little shop.
Which is why it is more than little puzzling why some people want to get down on their hands and knees before the worst leaders in the world; leaders who rob their citizens of their potential and tell these thugs “oh America is selfish. America is unworthy. Forgive us.” Let them ask for forgiveness from their generations they have blighted first before anyone seeks absolution from them.
