Yeah, it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue but it’s politically correct enough for the new United States of Amerikkka. Which, after the change, I suspect will be known simply as The Peoples Republic of America, the USSA, or perhaps Obamastan, or even the country formerly known as the U.S. of A..
One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.
In fact, indigenous people have offered such a model; since 1970 they have marked the fourth Thursday of November as a Day of Mourning in a spiritual/political ceremony on Coles Hill overlooking Plymouth Rock, Mass., one of the early sites of the European invasion of the Americas.
Not only is the thought of such a change in this white-supremacist holiday impossible to imagine, but the very mention of the idea sends most Americans into apoplectic fits — which speaks volumes about our historical hypocrisy and its relation to the contemporary politics of empire in the United States. ~alternet.org
This is the essence of radical leftist politics. A true picture of the kind of change and hope that Obama wishes to bring to our country? We’ll see. I suspect that Obama is too smart to actually promote his true beliefs in this manner. He seems to know that this kind of innate leftist hatred of everything American would make him into a pariah for all time. I suspect that he will try to hide his true beliefs and attempt to move the ball forward into the leftfield as far as he can during his presidency in an effort to create a better face for progressive leftists to use to call for more socialism.