Rolling with the G-Man on this one. We can talk about the successive waves of other European and non-European cultures into the USA. That's fine and dandy. It still doesn't change the fact that we started off as 13 fucking English colonies and that much of our customs and ideas on the government are deeply steeped in that heritage. Fuck, you aren't even guaranteed a trial by jury of your peers in freaking France!
There's a difference though from talking about a shared Anglo-Saxon heritage between two countries and saying Obama doesn't understand that heritage. Why would Obama as a fellow American understand that heritage any less than Romney? After the Sununu comment it does look like Romney is going there.
Because Obama is an ideological radical, and that is well documented by the people he has associated with since high school (Frank Marshall Davis, his marxist parents --BOTH!!-- and his grandparents who hooked him up with Frank Marshall Davis)... by the radical students and professors Obama associated with in college (Rashid Khalidi, Derrick "hate whitey" Bell, and the many other radicals, that Obama himself describes associating with in his own autobiography)... and by Obama's close associates and political allies for more than 20 years since he began his career (Rev Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Valerie Jarrett, Van Jones, Jeff Jones and the Apollo Alliance who wrote the Stimulus and Obamacare, and on and on).
In D'Souza's book
The Roots of Obama's Rage, he makes clear that the dream from his father in Obama's autobiography
Dreams From My Father is
anti-colonialism: deep hatred of European/Western power, and a burning desire to cripple that power and make it recede from the world so that it can never be exerted again.
So... Obama may understand that British heritage, but Obama clearly --by his own words-- has a deep resentment of that heritage, and a clear ill will toward it. Churchill in particular had a strong participation in African colonialism, prior to his exertion of that power at the highest levels, as leader of the Empire in two world wars. There was clear and intentional symbolism in boxing Churchill's bust and sending it back to the British Embassy.
There was no un-intended insult, it was all very intentional.
