I Wish This President Would Learn How To Be an American

John Sununu seems to be in a little hot water right now because he said on a Romney campaign conference call with reporters "I wish this president would learn how to be an American."  Despite not being the biggest fan of John Sununu, I have to say that he really hit the nail on the head.  Obama simply does not act like we expect an American President to act.  I came here with my family from the Soviet Union to escape repression and the belief that the society should dominate the individual.  We came here for freedom, freedom to worship, freedom to make money and freedom to believe what we want to believe.  This President doesn't seem to really believe in any of these things.  He wants to force Catholic institutions to pay for abortions (the equivalent of making Jewish schools serve bacon in their cafeterias). He thinks the rich should pay an ever increasing "fair share" (despite the fact that the top 1% already pays almost 40% of income taxes) and don't deserve any credit for the businesses they created.  He also wants to be able to strong arm anybody who doesn't agree with him.  Note the DISCLOSE Act, IRS harassment of tea party groups,and just outright investigation of personal records of Romney donors to look for dirt on them.  These are not the actions of a true American, these are the actions of some banana republic despot who will do anything to get his way and thinks he knows better than everybody else how they should run their own lives.

I know many on the left are using that statement from Sununu as evidence of some sort of racism or nativism.  They should remember that Sununu is hardly a nativist.  He himself was born in Havana, Cuba and his dad was a Palestinian from Jerusalem and his mom was born in San Salvador, El Salvador.  It seems that immigrants like us have every right to demand that our President act like we expect Americans to act.