Are America's Best Days Behind Us?

In the local paper, The News Virginian, a gentleman claimed that America's best days are behind her. This he believes based upon the election of Barack Obama. In fact, he thinks that America has lost her way because we don't "put God first like we used to."

Well, here is a short list of all the great things America has accomplished putting God first:

1. Owning other people as property
2. Mass genocide of the native peoples
3. A bloody civil war
4. The occupation of the Philipines and the subsequent counter insurgency in 1899 to 1903 where thousands were slaughtered.
5. The internment of Japanese Americans
6. The anihalation of two Japanese cities by Atom bomb
7. The witch hunts known as McCarthyism based upon thoughts
8. The propping up of dozens of despots and dictators
9. The lie that was the Gulf of Tonken
10. Segregation
11. Lynching
12. Wiretapping citizens
13. Suspension of habeaus corpus
14. Torture