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Does President Obama view nationalism as a virtue?

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  • yes

    Votes: 2 20.0%
  • no

    Votes: 8 80.0%

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Simple yes or no.

Please elaborate if possible.
 
Define nationalism and virtue.
 
Going along with what Independent said, it depends on ones definition of the question. I think that Obama thinks that he is doing what is right for the country, therefore improving it, and therefore is being patriotic. However, too many times I had heard him in the campaign (more often Michelle Obama though) say that he loves what the country can become. Try using that one on your wife.
 
Before some **** for brains globalist gives a bogus definition I will supply one.


nationalism - Dictionary definition and pronunciation - Yahoo! Education

1.

Devotion to the interests or culture of one's nation.
2.

The belief that nations will benefit from acting independently rather than collectively, emphasizing national rather than international goals.
3.

Aspirations for national independence in a country under foreign domination.



Simple yes or no.

Please elaborate if possible.

I would have to say no. At least Obama is a little bit more honest about being globalist. Most of them pretend that saying I support the troops and waiving a flag while selling jobs to china, letting foreign countries and companies run our ports, restricting constitutional rights and selling this country out to globalism and illegals is somehow patriotic.
 
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SPIEGEL: Do you really believe that Obama deliberately wants to weaken the US?

Krauthammer: The liberal vision of America is that it should be less arrogant, less unilateral, more internationalist. In Obama's view, America would subsume itself under a fuzzy internationalism in which the international community, which I think is a fiction, governs itself through the UN.

SPIEGEL: A nightmare?

Krauthammer: Worse than that: an absurdity. I can't even imagine serious people would believe it, but I think Obama does. There is a way America will decline -- if we choose first to wreck our economy and then to constrain our freedom of action through subordinating ourselves to international institutions which are 90 percent worthless and 10 percent harmful.

Interview with Charles Krauthammer: 'Obama Is Average' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
 
I've seen no real evidence that He does.
 
well

being an internationalist isn't going to get him elected. If he loses support within America, then the Swedish liberals cannot vote him for another term.
 
Again, define your terms, if you can.
 
So, are we saying that the conservatives are living in the past or are we saying that they have no appreciation of meaningful music (the Beatles, for one).
Its impossible for me to say weather or not President Obama is a nationalist or a globalist.
Thus , no vote..
 
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