Now Pat Buchanan knows what the American Indians have been enduring since 1492.

Ms. Walsh, I have long admired your intellectual prowess and political acumen, but I fail to understand why you and so many other pundits seem so disillusioned with Barack Obama, and why it seems to come as a surprise that he is like all the politicians before him. He is black, yes, but he is not in the vein of Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, or even Martin Luther King. More salient is the fact that he is a rich member of the establishment. So, he is not a revolutionary activist.

Contrary to common stereotypical depictions of Negros in this country, not all blacks are poor and disenfranchised. This country has had upper class blacks for generations with wealth, private schools, private summer camps for their children, and private clubs. The dichotomy is more about class than race.

It is impossible to get elected to high office without playing the game according to script. The process compels conformity.

During the period of slavery in this country, the slave owners were seriously outnumbered by their slaves and therefore lived in perpetual fear of insurrection and murder. After all, one can only keep slaves in check through terror and torture. The house Negros could be trusted to place the welfare and safety of the slave owner and his family above those of the field slaves. They were psychologically co-opted.

Barack was elected to the office of the presidency because he can be trusted to get along and go along, just like his white counterparts. Now that he is in office, the pressures on him not to buck the entrenched system are incredible and insurmountable. He's just one man in the final analysis.

As Lord Acton astutely observed, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

It has been argued that under extenuating circumstances torture is necessary, such as when a captive has vital information about a bomb about to explode, so there's no time for sense and sensibility. Well, one hapless dude was tortured 183 times over a month. That's one hell of a long timer on any bomb. "Quick! Waterboard this jackass fast! We only have one month to find the bomb and diffuse it!"

First he butchered the English language; second he shredded the Constitution; third he tore up citizens' rights; fourth he savaged the economy; fifth he destroyed logic in waging an illicit war in the name of peace; sixth he water boarded New Orleans with indifference; and finally he crucified Christianity. It was a long, torturous eight years under this incompetent Bozo.

"I was just following orders." The United States hung war criminals for making that flimsy excuse, and now President Obama says it's good enough. This country will never stop killing people. It's what it does best, second only to lying.

Michael Lind has written a particulary cogent, well reasoned, and properly documented argument against the notion that America is or ever was a Christian nation.

It nonetheless begs the question as to what Christianity is. Christians by definition follow the teachings and example of Jesus Christ. Jesus never killed anyone, neither did he advocate killing anyone, nor did he sanction killing anyone. As he made perfectly clear to Peter, he possessed the power to annihilate mankind, yet he laid down his life rather than kill and commanded his disciples to do likewise, which they then did and now do.

Jesus disappointed many Jews who might have been his followers because he did not entangle himself in worldly matters and did not resist the Roman occupation of Israel as did guerilla fighters such as the Maccabees. Many hoped that as the Messiah he had come to free the Hebrews, but such was not his purpose.

By contrast, the history of America is replete with anti-Christian behavior. Christopher Columbus brought with him supposed priests of Christianity to convert the natives for their eternal salvation, but instead enslaved native Americans and killed off an entire tribe in the process.

Many ersatz Christians fled persecutions in Europe but got busy right away persecuting each other in the New World. The Salem witch trials is a classic example of weird superstition foisted upon the colonies. Rhode Island was established specifically as a refuge from religious persecution which was rampant.

Slavery quickly followed in which torture and terror were used to impose submission. Black persons were worked like mules and treated like dogs. They were deemed subhuman. (Solomon married a black woman.) Most slaves labored from sunrise to sunset, and many were fed nothing more than blackstrap molasses and corn meal. Countless numbers died of exhaustion and maltreatment. The wealth of the nation was built upon the backs of Blacks, for which they have never been compensated. Slave owners (mostly the wealthy) saw nothing hypocritical about praising God on Sunday and lynching Blacks on Monday.

The European settlers expanded westward only by exterminating Indians and stealing their lands. Payments promised by treaties were never paid. Many Indians were murdered by the willful spread of smallpox and forced starvation, no less insidious than Nazi practices.

And so it goes, right down to Jim Crow laws, reservations tantamount to concentration camps, and naked imperialism.

None of these things did Jesus ever do, and neither have Christians, who follow his divine example.

To claim that America is or was a Christian nation violates the very term, "Christian."

I said many weeks ago on this website that Obama is just another politician, and so he has proven himself to be. This is just another song and dance routine different in style but not substance.

What is particularly silly about this so-called war on terror (or overseas contingency operations) is that America got through WWI, WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War without shredding the Constitution. These recent activities of the executive branch are nothing more than a power grab on the way to totalitarianism--the terrorists have won.

Psalm 118:8

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.