I mean, really? We’re not treating the Western Hemisphere enough as “Western Christendom” and, thus, we have Cuba and Venezuela? And we really ought to do more to “the values that Christopher Columbus brought here across the ocean”?(Actually, I think that’s part of the US problem in the Western Hemisphere: we behave too much like Columbus, looking for riches, domination over the locals, and a cheaper way to ship our goods.)
Of course, it was one of those infamous “late at night with pretty much nobody around” speeches that are made to get into the Congressional Record and be able to send to appropriate interest groups (just check out the state of the House in the first few seconds of the clip). But … yeesh, even for late at night (and even for King (R-Iowa)), it was crazy talk.
Rep. Steve King: Obama should impose Christendom on Latin America like Columbus | The Raw Story
Last night, Iowa Representative Steve King went before the House of Representatives and delivered a long speech in which, among other things, he bemoaned that President Obama doesn’t believe in “the pillars of American exceptionalism” as instantiated in “the values that Christopher Columbus …
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I don't know, I've read Columbus's diary. I think we do a really good job of emulating his values. I mean, we don't think twice about screwing over people to get the resources we value. 😉
And you can also add the fact that if Columbus' values were imposed on the United States of America, all Protestants might be burned at the stake.
Despite an official governmental preference for atheism, the people of Cuba are closer to the values of Columbus than the motley assortment of people in the United States, with a disproportionate number of Protestants, Jews, and Saracens. (I don't even know if Columbus or his royal patrons could conceive of an agnostic or atheist.)
Oh well, the elderly Italian-American community in Iowa is probably giddy with excitement.
The US should act like Columbus?
What? Lost?
@LH – Hopefully not gouty and dying bedridden.