Posted by
willsie on Friday, July 04, 2008 3:00:00 PM
Here's a little excerpt from Glenn Beck's speech at America's Freedom Festival in Utah. It says everything you need to know about what makes this country the greatest nation on the planet.
"We, as a nation, are facing tough times. If you listen to me, you know. You`re like, "Glenn, shut up. I get it."
Now that everybody is recognizing that the tough times are here, I bring you a new message. It`s not about the floods or the fires, or the twisters in Kansas. It`s not about the stock market being down. It`s not about the gas. It`s not about oil being up 700 percent. It`s none of those.
It is that all is well. And we will make it. As long as we look at ourselves and ask ourselves the question, "Who are we?" in a time when America is begging for a leader. In a time where America is shouting out, "Where is the leader? When will he step forward?" I am here to tell you, you are the leader. The leader we seek, the leader we need, is you. It always has been.
We cannot continue down buying into the lies that somehow or another this country isn`t a special place, that we aren`t a special people. We are this country`s next great dispensations pioneers. We are the ones that are going to take us into a new place beyond your wildest imaginations. It will be hard. It will be rough. But, oh, we will have this tale to tell. We just have to be who we really are.
People ask me all the time, "Glenn, I get it. I know we`re in trouble. Where`s the hope?" The hope is found in just waking up. The hope is in the recognition of who we truly are, not who we`ve allowed ourselves to become. All we have to do is remember. All we have to do is remember and celebrate, and wake each other up.
Let`s start talking about the things that are great instead of talking and debating and arguing about illegal immigration. While we do that, let`s remember one thing: people are dying in the desert to have a small piece of what we take for granted every day.
How could it be a place -- how could it be a place not worth fighting for? How could it be a place that`s oh, so terrible, if people will give their lives just for a small piece in the shadow? It is a blessed land.
The Founding Fathers gave us a map out of anything. They were magnificent and divinely inspired. This week, we celebrate the signing of the Declaration, the group of men gathered in Philadelphia to sign what they knew was their death warrant. They knew if their name were on that document, they would be killed. But each one of them stepped up and signed it. Signed it.
We are the United States of America. We can solve any problem. Not in Washington. Here. Here. The answer never comes from Washington. That`s the answer."
We are the leader that America needs right now. It's not Obama, it's not McCain, and it sure isn't Nancy Pelosi. I have always said that the people of this country are what make it great, what make it special. We can solve any problem. We are Americans and we can do anything.
Happy 4th of July, and Happy Birthday to the greatest nation in history.