THE PRESIDENT WITHOUT A COUNTRY

The  president without a country
By  Pat Boone            

"We're  no longer a Christian nation." - President Barack Obama, June  2007

"  America has been arrogant." - President Barack  Obama

"After 9/11, America didn't always live  up to her ideals."- President Barack  Obama

"You might say that America is a Muslim  nation."- President Barack Obama, Egypt  2009

Thinking about these and other statements  made by the man who wears the title of president. I keep wondering  what country he believes he's president of.

In  one of my very favorite stories, Edward Everett Hale's "The Man  without a Country," a young Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan  stands condemned for treason during the Revolutionary War, having  come under the influence of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks him if  he wishes to say anything before sentence is passed, young Nolan  defiantly exclaims, "Damn the United States ! I wish I might never  hear of the United States again!"

The stunned  silence in the courtroom is palpable, pulsing. After a long pause,  the judge soberly says to the angry lieutenant: "You have just  pronounced your own sentence. You will never hear of the United  States again... I sentence you to spend the rest of your life at  sea, on one or another of this country's naval vessels - under  strict orders that no one will ever speak to you again about the  country you have just cursed."

And so it was.  Philip Nolan was taken away and spent the next 40 years at sea,  never hearing anything but an occasional slip of the tongue about  America. The last few pages of the story, recounting Nolan's dying  hours in his small stateroom - now turned into a shrine to the  country he fore swore - never fail to bring me to tears.  And  I find my own love for this dream, this miracle called America ,  refreshed and renewed. I know how blessed and unique we  are.

But reading and hearing the audacious,  shocking statements of the man who was recently elected our  president - a young black man living the impossible dream of  millions of young Americans, past and present, black and white - I  want to ask him, "Just what country do you think you're president  of?"

You surely can't be referring to the  United States of America , can you? America is emphatically a  Christian nation, and has been from its inception! Seventy percent  of her citizens identify themselves as Christian. The Declaration  of Independence and our Constitution were framed, written and  ratified by Christians. It's because this was, and is, a nation  built on and guided by Judeo-Christian biblical principles that  you, sir, have had the inestimable privilege of being elected her  president.

You studied law at Harvard, didn't  you, sir? You taught constitutional law in Chicago ? Did you not  ever read the statement of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of  the Supreme Court and an author of the landmark "Federalist  Papers": "Providence has given to our people the choice of their  rulers - and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest  of our Christian nation - to select and prefer Christians for  their rulers"?

In your studies, you surely  must have read the decision of the Supreme Court in 1892: "Our  lives and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and  embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible  that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent  our civilization and our institutions are emphatically  Christian."

Did your professors have you skip  over all the high-court decisions right up till the mid 1900's  that echoed and reinforced these views and intentions? Did you  pick up the history of American jurisprudence only in 1947, when  for the first time a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson about a  "wall of separation between church and state" was used to deny  some specific religious expression - contrary to Jefferson ' s  intent with that statement?

Or, wait a minute  . were your ideas about America 's Christianity formed during the  20 years you were a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ  under your pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Is that where you got the idea  that " America is no longer a Christian nation"? Is this where  you, even as you came to call yourself a Christian, formed the  belief that " America has been arrogant"?

Even  if that's the understandable explanation of your damning of your  country and accusing the whole nation (not just a few military  officials trying their best to keep more Americans from being  murdered by jihadists) of "not always living up to her ideals,"  how did you come up with the ridiculous, alarming notion that we  might be "considered a Muslim nation"?

Is it  because there are some 2 million or more Muslims living here,  trying to be good Americans? Out of a current population of over  300 million, 70 percent of whom are Christians? Does that make us,  by any rational definition, a "Muslim  nation"?

Why are we not, then, a "Chinese  nation"? A "Korean nation"? Even a "Vietnamese nation"? There are  even more of these distinct groups in America than Muslims. And if  the distinction you're trying to make is a religious one, why is  America not "a Jewish nation"? There's actually a case to be made  for the latter, because our Constitution - and the success of our  Revolution and founding - owe a deep debt to our Jewish  brothers.

Have you stopped to think what an  actual Muslim America would be like? Have you ever really spent  much time in Iran ? Even in Egypt ? You, having been instructed in  Islam as a kid at a Muslim school in Indonesia and saying you  still love the call to evening prayers, can surely picture our  nation founded on the Quran, not the Judeo-Christian Bible, and  living under Shariah law.. Can't you? You do recall Muhammad's  directives [Surah 9:5,73] to "break the cross" and "kill the  infidel"?

It seems increasingly and painfully  obvious that you are more influenced by your upbringing and  questionable education than most suspected. If you consider  yourself the president of a people who are "no longer Christian,"  who have "failed to live up to our ideals," who "have been  arrogant," and might even be "considered Muslim" - you are  president of a country most Americans don't  recognize.

Could it be you are a president  without a country?
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