Obama's Historical Ignorance and Disdain for the Faith | The American Spectator
A speech gone terribly, terribly awry.
Barack Obama has one final year to realize that the National Prayer Breakfast just isn’t a good venue for him. Obama’s track record at the annual function has been little other than disastrous, and another president—one with a more hostile media and a less dedicated constituency—would have been ruined already by previous catastrophes.
Obama’s problems with the National Prayer Breakfast began in earnest in 2012, when the keynote speech at the affair was given by author Eric Metaxas. The speech Metaxas gave in advance of Obama’s own address was a tour de force and an indictment, though a polite one, of Obama’s position on abortion and other social issues as decisively anti-Christian. Metaxas stole the show and left Obama giving a speech that had been thoroughly repudiated from the same podium just minutes earlier, about how Christianity included essentially the same moral framework as Hinduism or Islam.
Then, a year later, Ben Carson used a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast to more directly challenge Obama’s leadership. Carson, a highly-successful surgeon who grew up in far more challenging circumstances in the slums of Detroit than did Obama in Honolulu, spoke of the existential threat political correctness posed to America. He attacked Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the so-called Affordable Care Act, as nonsense. Afterward, according to Carson, the president’s underlings called the event’s organizers to inform them that Obama had taken great offense and to demand an apology. Carson’s speech created such a sensation that two years later he’s being touted as a potential candidate to succeed Obama in the White House.
But at this year’s event last week, Obama didn’t need a prominent conservative to upstage him. He was perfectly capable of creating a man-caused disaster on his own by delivering a speech so tone-deaf and condescending to the American people, Christians the world over, and even Western civilization in general as to put an exclamation point behind the speeches of Metaxas and Carson.
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Obama’s problems with the National Prayer Breakfast began in earnest in 2012, when the keynote speech at the affair was given by author Eric Metaxas. The speech Metaxas gave in advance of Obama’s own address was a tour de force and an indictment, though a polite one, of Obama’s position on abortion and other social issues as decisively anti-Christian. Metaxas stole the show and left Obama giving a speech that had been thoroughly repudiated from the same podium just minutes earlier, about how Christianity included essentially the same moral framework as Hinduism or Islam.
Then, a year later, Ben Carson used a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast to more directly challenge Obama’s leadership. Carson, a highly-successful surgeon who grew up in far more challenging circumstances in the slums of Detroit than did Obama in Honolulu, spoke of the existential threat political correctness posed to America. He attacked Obama’s signature legislative achievement, the so-called Affordable Care Act, as nonsense. Afterward, according to Carson, the president’s underlings called the event’s organizers to inform them that Obama had taken great offense and to demand an apology. Carson’s speech created such a sensation that two years later he’s being touted as a potential candidate to succeed Obama in the White House.
But at this year’s event last week, Obama didn’t need a prominent conservative to upstage him. He was perfectly capable of creating a man-caused disaster on his own by delivering a speech so tone-deaf and condescending to the American people, Christians the world over, and even Western civilization in general as to put an exclamation point behind the speeches of Metaxas and Carson.
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