September 30, 2014
The very day Barack Obama was inaugurated President of the United States, the Republican Party leadership met in secret and made a pact that they would purposely and permanently attempt to derail any and everything this president would ever attempt to do. So far, they have kept their word to the letter. Conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh openly and brazenly wished everything Barack Obama would ever attempt would fail. Recently, Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado boldly admitted “A lot of us are talking to the (military) generals behind the scenes, saying, ‘Hey, if you disagree with the policy that the White House has given you, let’s have a resignation.’”
Seriously, an active member of the United States congress encouraging mutiny against a Commander in Chief??
Perhaps these conservative nut jobs don’t realize that by wishing failure on the President of the United States, they are in effect wishing failure on the United States itself. Perhaps they know and don’t care. Hoping for failure against ANY President of the United States who doesn’t follow a narrow conservative agenda AND willing to burn the whole house (country) down as a consequence is absolutely ludicrous.
Our brand of politics in this country has become fodder for others outside of America. At least one writer in Canada finds the Obama-hate both confusing and near treasonous. Here are excerpts from the article “America – He’s Your President for Goodness Sake!” as written by William Thomas.
There was a time not so long ago when Americans, regardless of their political stripes, rallied round their president. Once elected, the man who won the White House was no longer viewed as a republican or democrat, but the President of the United States. The oath of office was taken, the wagons were circled around the country’s borders and it was America versus the rest of the world with the president of all the people at the helm.
Suddenly President Barack Obama, with the potential to become an exceptional president has become the glaring exception to that unwritten, patriotic rule.
Four days before President Obama’s inauguration, before he officially took charge of the American government, Rush Limbaugh boasted publicly that he hoped the president would fail. Of course, when the president fails the country flounders. Wishing harm upon your country in order to further your own narrow political views is selfish, sinister and a tad treasonous as well.
ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S PERSONAL LIFE:
Last spring, President Obama took his wife Michelle to see a play in New York City and republicans attacked him over the cost of security for the excursion. The president can’t take his wife out to dinner and a show without being scrutinized by the political opposition? As history has proven, a president in a theatre without adequate security is a tragically bad idea.
Remember: “Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”
ON OBAMACARE:
At some point, the treatment of President Obama went from offensive to ugly and then to downright dangerous.
The health-care debate, which looked more like extreme fighting in a mud pit than a national dialogue, revealed a very vulgar side of America. President Obama’s face appeared on protest signs white-faced and blood-mouthed in a satanic clown image. In other tasteless portrayals, people who disagreed with his position distorted his face to look like Hitler complete with mustache and swastika.
Odd, that burning the flag makes Americans crazy, but depicting the president as a clown and a maniacal fascist is accepted as part of the new rude America.
Maligning the image of the leader of the free world is one thing, putting the president’s life in peril is quite another. More than once, men with guns were videotaped at the health-care rallies where the president spoke. Again, history shows that letting men with guns get within range of a president has not served America well in the past.
ON THOSE WHO STILL BELIEVE MR. OBAMA IS NOT AMERICAN:
And still the “birthers” are out there claiming Barack Obama was not born in the United States, although public documentation proves otherwise. Hawaii is definitely part of the United States, but the Panama Canal Zone where his electoral opponent Senator John McCain was born? Nobody’s sure.
A FITTING CONCLUSION:
In President Barack Obama, Americans have a charismatic leader with a good and honest heart. Unlike his predecessor, he’s a very intelligent leader. And unlike that president’s predecessor, he’s a highly moral man.
In President Obama, Americans have the real deal, the whole package and a leader that citizens of almost every country around the world look to with great envy. Given the opportunity, Canadians would trade our leader, hell, most of our leaders for Obama in a heartbeat.
What America has in Obama is a head of state with vitality and insight and youth. Think about it, Barack Obama is a young Nelson Mandela. Mandela was the face of change and charity for all of Africa but he was too old to make it happen. The great things Obama might do for America and the world could go on for decades after he’s out of office.
America, you know not what you have.
The man is being challenged unfairly, characterized with vulgarity and treated with the kind of deep disrespect to which no previous president was subjected. It’s like the day after electing the first black man to be president, thereby electrifying the world with hope and joy, Americans sobered up and decided the bad old days were better.
Please. Give the man a fair, fighting chance. This incivility toward the leader who won over Americans and gave hope to billions of people around the world that their lives could be enhanced by his example, just naturally has to stop.
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Is EVERY SINGLE policy agenda President Obama has ever introduced truly worth such vilification? Or is the hate against President Obama really about a black man sitting as the leader of the free world in the WHITE House??
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I believe it's both, his policies and his Race, with his Race being the primary reason for the hatred directed at him by a certain segment of the American people.
Frankly, the election, and then re-election, of an African-American man in the White House, serving as the President of the United States, marks the kind of monumental socio-political and cutural shift in this country that is simply more…Much More…than his (mostly White) enemies can bare.