ON THIS JULY 4TH – AT 10:21 A.M. ET:  We recall that, on July 4th, we celebrate a document, and we are reminded of the importance of words, especially the words of leaders.

On this July 4th we find ourselves poorly led, our president a minor Chicago politician with a silver voice and a cynical morality.  We worry that the ideals enshrined in the great Declaration are eroding, worn away by a decadent educational establishment and its product, an equally decadent media.

On July 4, 1940, Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons.  It was not for the purpose of reflecting on American independence from Britain, but to inform the Honourable House that he had ordered the destruction of the French fleet, at harbor in North Africa, because it was in danger of falling into Nazi hands.  There were now major fears that Britain would soon itself be invaded.  America, influenced by its disgusting ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, himself a Nazi sympathizer, was doing little to help.  Churchill concluded his remarks as follows:

The Prime Minister expects all His Majesty's servants in high places to set an example of steadiness and resolution. They should check and rebuke expressions of loose and ill-digested opinion in their circles, or by their subordinates. They should not hesitate to report, or if necessary remove, any officers or officials who are found to be consciously exercising a disturbing or depressing influence, and whose talk is calculated to spread alarm and despondency. Thus alone will they be worthy of the fighting men, who, in the air, on the sea, and on land, have already met the enemy without any sense of being outmatched in martial qualities. In conclusion, I feel that we are entitled to the confidence of the House and that we shall not fail in our duty, however painful. The action we have already taken should be, in itself, sufficient to dispose once and for all of the lies and rumours which have been so industriously 1051 spread by German propaganda and Fifth Column activities that we have the slightest intention of entering into negotiations in any form and through any channel with the German and Italian Governments. We shall, on the contrary, prosecute the war with the utmost vigour by all the means that are open to us until the righteous purposes for which we entered upon it have been fulfilled.

That as a leader.

The speech made clear to the world, especially the United States, that Britain would fight, that it had no intention of surrendering.

You will note that there was no mention of multiculturalism, or of "understanding the Nazi narrative."  There was a mention of a Fifth Column, something we should be mindful of today, as some "dissent" in America crosses the line. 

We could use a Churchill today.  What we have is an Obama.

July 3, 2010