Levin takes issue with Obama's weekly address on Saturday, where the President dares to say, "It's time to build a nation that lives up to the ideals that so many Americans have fought for; a nation where they can realize the dream they sacrificed to protect."
"No, folks, the failure of one man, Barack Obama, the failure of his party, the Democrat Party, the failure of the federal government, is not the failure of We the People, it's not the failure of America, and it's not the failure of the nation. His failure is his failure. His ideology is alien to America. His policies are alien to America. That's what it means to fundamentally transform a society in a nation. I'm sick and tired of this guy projecting himself as bigger than the nation, as bigger than our history. I'm sick and tired of this man putting down this country... Ladies and Gentlemen, America is not Barack Obama. America is not a political party. America is not the failed policies of both. America is the most magnificent society man has ever known, ever!"
"Never confuse government with your nation. Never confuse government with your society. Because government's not the same thing as the nation...as society.
This is what Bush and the neoconservatives have never understood, and in this respect, they're much like Obama, I'm sad to say. The reason why the Arab Spring could never work...the reason is simple: because you have to have a civil society, where people want to be treating each other like human beings, where there is tolerance, where there's respect, before you can have a little 'd' democratic government. There's no shortcut. You see, in our nation, the civil society preceded the colonies. The colonies preceded the states. The states preceded the federal government. It's a building block system.
So when Obama says 'it's time to build a nation that lives up to the ideals that so many Americans have fought for,' what he's saying is 'this nation sucks, so surrender more of your liberty and property to me, so I can top down, iron-fisted, authoritarian rule put in place a great nation where the people who sacrificed would have been proud.' Any dictator could make a comment like this."
"Folks, we're a great nation in spite of Obama. We're a great nation in spite of what the federal government has become."
Preach it, Great One!
