Is it normal that obama has made me ashamed to be american?
I just had the displeasure to have watched a new Obama speech last night with my parents, and I have to say I'm just tired of him. He is such a jerk. I am American but I find the rest of the world so fascinating and diverse. Many of the nations beyond my own are spectacular. But Obama is so damn proud of the US that he found ridiculous reasons to compare this country with others. In the speech he would not stop looking down upon the rest of the non-American world.
He claimed how he is sickened at the fact that there are so many big companies that aren't in America. He stated that he found it "unfortunate" that Americans who had left the country are living better lives outside the US ("I am disgusted to know some of our good people have betrayed us like this" he said).
He constantly cited the fact that non-Americans coming into the country had said that they were glad to have left their previous one. He constantly reminded the massive crowd of how "We are the country that does everything better than everybody else. And if we don't, we will have failed as a superpower. We cannot let other world powers have the spotlight. No other nation deserves what we have, otherwise the American Dream will be over."
Basically, he's saying that if for example the UK and China suddenly prospers and become superpowers (both will eventually), America has failed. Is this really what he expects us all to think of the world, as if we are the heroes and all other countries are feeble sidekicks? Only America can be perfect even though it isn't?
And then he had the cheek to say that the world has "No right to laugh at our image or doubt our incredble strength". I am personally able to laugh at my country, we all are of course, but Obama cannot see this: "One out of many, the nation the world relies on to get by, the single nation where anything is possible. To relocate to any other nation on Earth would be to throw away a dream that can come true so easily..."
I am now ashamed to be from this country; sure, it's a glorious country where one can achieve their dreams but also a country ran by a mean government that disagrees with other cultures and seeks to rake in as many people from around the world as they can so that they can convert them. In Obama's eyes, it's like this: Who needs *insert random country here* when you can have America?
Is this normal? I love the rest of the world, I want to be a nice American :(