But the long passage (verbatim below) that fired up the crowd was Prager’s contemplation of why so many Americans have been resonating to Barack Obama’s trademark word "change." Prager said it can’t just be a change of policies, since everyone running in every election wants to change some policies, but Prager finally figured out what it means and, he told the audience, "this should scare you."
"The change is about changing America. That’s what they really believe. That’s why change has become such a big word for the Democratic Party under Barack Obama and under Nancy Pelosi and under Harry Reid.
"If you think someone is wonderful, do you want to change him or her? No. Would you like to improve them? Yes, of course anyone can be improved. … But you want to change that which you believe is essentially really flawed.
"And here is the point It has nothing to do with love of America, nothing to do with patriotism, that’s not my point
"The left has built up a caricature of the United States over the last six years. They have built up a grand edifice of lies about America and how pernicious it is, and how awful it is, how hated it is, how bad it is, how fascistic it is over the last six years that they really want to change the country. They believe what they’re saying.
"They believe: ‘Bush lied, people died.’
"These are all untruths. Let me tell you something. That is the lie. Bush. Did. Not. Lie. That must be said over and over and over and over and over. It is a lie that he lied. It is a large grand edifice of lies that he lied.
"John Howard of Australia didn’t lie. Tony Blair of the UK didn’t lie. All the other countries that believed and every single Western intelligence agency didn’t lie. They may have been mistaken but they didn’t lie.
"If you believe that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney went into Iraq to make Halliburton rich, which is what half of the left believes, then you will want this country to change.
"If you believe we were lied into a war against a peace-loving society, then you want this country to be changed.
"If you believe that our Constitution has been trampled on, though not a single one of you has had the slightest effect on your civil liberties in the last six years, then you will want this country to be changed.
"If you believe that racism is endemic to the American people, then you want this society changed.
"If you believe that John McCain has run a racist campaign as the New York Times said he has in its editorial on behalf of Barack Obama one week ago, then you want this society changed.
"If you think that Christians are plotting to take over this country and make it a theocracy, then you want this country changed.
"But here is the point: If you believe all of that, you believe seven lies. [Long applause.]
"It is an edifice of untruth. It is a bubble that the left has created. They believe that bubble exists. That’s the America they have painted, they believe it really exists so of course they want it changed.
"But my friends, you and I who live in reality, [laughter] I mean it, it is about living in reality, we understand something different.
"America has problems, but it is the greatest country in the world."
There’s a very big difference between having problems and being essentially flawed and we don’t want America changed and let me tell you something as a student of history, you only want bad societies changed. You only want bad people changed.. I would like murderers changed, but I trust that by and large you’d like your husband or your wife, if you get a long well and love and admire him or her, NOT TO CHANGE. You’d like them to listen more often, or even more amazingly remember what you said [laughter].
It’s a dangerous word.
I plead guilty to “conservatives fear change”. That is absolutely correct. You tell me where a good society has changed and become…gooder. No, they don’t. When societies change they’re either good to bad or bad to good.
I don’t want change. I want improvement. That’s a very big
difference.
That is what this is all about and the eddifice of untruths that has built, the latest of course that Sarah Palin is unworthy to be Vice-President of the United States. So let me tell you and let me go on record as saying. I would rather have Sarah Palin, if there is a crisis on this planet, challenging the United States of America. I would rather have her as President than any Democrat in office as President of the United States. Because she is stable, because she is knows her values, because she ha a back with a rod steel, and because she wants America to do what is right, not necessarily to be loved.
The great flaw of liberalism is they want to be loved.
Let me tell you a human thing of hopefully some wisdom. You should be aimed to be loved by only two people: your spouse and your friends. That’s it. You should not aim to be loved by other countries. You should aim to bel loved by your own children. You will be a much inferior parent if your primary aim is to be loved by your children. This is lost on the left. The left want America loved. You know who’s loved? Sweden is loved. But Sweden does nothing on the world scene. Sweden was neutral between Hitler and the West and is nuetral between communism and the west. But Sweden is loved. I don’t want to be Sweden!
