Who Hates America?

Remember a few years ago, when there was a whole flap about the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance? Certain atheists and other non-Christian groups pushed to remove the words, not merely because they are antithetical to the principles of this nation, but also because they are a corruption of the original Pledge (which did not contain the words) and were added as part of one of the more distasteful episodes in our recent history, the McCarthy communism witch hunt.

The common refrain from the Right Wingnuts at the Fox Nuisance Channel, on this and just about every other liberal issue, is to condemn the proponents as "hating America".

Two words, added to the Pledge, but to even dare suggest that perhaps it should be restored to it's original glory (strict constructionism of the Pledge) gets that kind of reaction.

How about the flap over the National Anthem, when certain liberal groups wanted to sing it in Spanish among the Latin-American population? No one even suggested changing the words (except to the extent that the translated words needed to fit the essential rhythm of the song), just translating them into Spanish, and to hear the extreme Right Wing water carriers tell it, to even suggest it was to shake babies, kick puppies and urinate upon the Constitution.

So imagine the response from that crowd if anyone had, even in jest, parodied one of those songs into an anti-war number. Imagine hearing America the Beautiful sung with lyrics of "ebon waves of oil" or references to Abu Ghraib or Haditha. You can just hear Bill O'Reilly screaming at how this just proves that liberals hate America, right?

So why doesn't this get so much as a mention?



That embedded clip is from the so-called "Values Voters" debate about a week ago (the one that got more press beforehand for Giuliani, McCain, Romney and Thompson refusing to attend than it got afterwards for what occurred). A church choir performed the above linked version of "God Bless America", asserting yet again the false meme that America was founded as a Christian nation and has somehow lost sight of that (they even refer to those same recent addition words "under God" I discussed above).

But just imagine if it had been a Democratic Party debate, sponsored by MoveOn.org, opening with the America the Beautiful I posited above. Wouldn't Faux News be ablaze with cries of desecration of one of our national songs? Wouldn't there be further cries for the Democratic candidates to distance themselves from this insult to America? Wouldn't this just prove to the water bearers that thing that they've been endlessly repeating for years now; Liberals hate America?

Apparently it's only desecration if it's done by the other side.

(For those who have any trouble watching the link, I've transcribed the words below, with a little help from a couple of other sites, that filled in words I couldn't quite make out on the video).


Why should God bless America? She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything that made her what she is.

Why should God stand beside her through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America forgive her sins and heal our land.

The courts ruled prayer out of our schools in June of ‘62,
Told the children “you are your own God now so you can make the rules.”
O say can you see what that choice has cost us to this day?
America, one nation under God, has gone astray.

Why should God bless America? She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything that made her what she is.

Why should God stand beside her through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America forgive her sins and heal our land.

In ‘73 the Courts said we could take the unborn lives.
"The choice is yours don’t worry now it’s not a wrong, it’s your right."

But just because they made it law does not change God’s command
The most that we can hope for is God’s mercy on our land.

Why should God bless America? She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything that made her what she is.

Why should God stand beside her through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America forgive her sins and heal our land.

(Spoken) Second Chronicles 7:14. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land

God have mercy on America forgive her sins and heal our land
God have mercy on America forgive her sins and heal our land
God have mercy on America forgive her sins and heal our land

For me, I'm just going to sit back and wait for the Senatorial condemnation of this unpatriotic attack on one of our national treasures. I'm guessing I'll be waiting for a while.

Liam.