Ashley Judd: “It’s So Nice to Live in America Again”
She loves her country. As long as a Democrat is in the White House.
Among the millions of people who are excited by the election of President Obama is Ashley Judd, as she demonstrated at the 40th birthday luncheon for NARAL Pro-Choice America at the Hilton Washington Tuesday.
After flubbing a few lines, Judd, who emceed the event, stopped and said, “I need to take a breath. I get so excited.”
After a brief slide show featuring Bush and other anti-abortion politicians, during which the crowd booed and hissed, Judd remarked, “It’s so nice to live in America again.”
NARAL President Nancy Keenan, whom Judd called the “Barbra Streisand of the pro-choice movement” because “she does it all,” had the mostly female crowd cracking-up during her speech, as she showed a picture of the bathroom at NARAL’s headquarters, which sports a photo of President Bush signing anti-abortion legislation.
On election night, which I covered on the radio with Scott Hennen, I promised that Obama was going to be my President even though I disagree with him on just about every issue I can think of off the top of my head. I said that I would never play this game – like so many on the left did – where I say that Obama isn’t my President simply because I don’t like his policies.
Because I love America, and it was America’s political process – flawed as it is, but still better than anything else in existence – that brought him to power. It is our system of government that makes America great, not any given leader. America was great during the administration of Thomas Jefferson. It was great during Abraham Lincoln. It was great during Ronald Reagan. It was even great during Jimmy Carter’s troubled time in office, and it will continue to be great as Obama attempts to execute Carter’s second term in office.
The point is, whether or not America is America doesn’t depend on who happens to be in the White House at any given moment. The strength of our country is in the value the power of the people to exercise their will in choosing our leaders, and setting our policies, not in any given leader.
Nations that worship their leaders are plentiful, but when you look at which countries they are/were – North Korea, the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, etc. – you understand just how foolhardy that hero worship is.
Obama doesn’t make us a great country. The fact that we can unelect Obama in four years if we want to is what makes America great.
