Posted on 11/17/2014 6:43:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
America – He’s Your President for Goodness Sake!
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.
Subsequently, during his State of the Union address, which is pretty much a pep rally for America, an unknown congressional representative from South Carolina, later identified as Joe Wilson, stopped the show when he called the President of the United States a liar. The president showed great restraint in ignoring this unprecedented insult and carried on with his speech. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was so stunned by the slur, she forgot to jump to her feet while clapping wildly, 30 or 40 times after that.
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?”
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.
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.
Last month, a 44-year-old woman in Buffalo was quite taken by President Obama when she met him in a chicken wing restaurant called Duff’s. Did she say something about a pleasure and an honour to meet the man or utter encouraging words for the difficult job he is doing? No. Quote: “You’re a hottie with a smokin’ little body.”
Lady, that was the President of the United States you were addressing, not one of the Jonas Brothers! He’s your president for goodness sakes, not the guy driving the Zamboni at “Monster Trucks On Ice.” Maybe next it’ll be, “Take Your President To A Topless Bar Day.”
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.
President Obama may fail but it will not be a Richard Nixon default fraught with larceny and lies. President Obama, given a fair chance, will surely succeed but his triumph will never come with a Bill Clinton caveat – “if only he’d got control of that zipper.”
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.
Believe me, when Americans drive by the White House and see a sign on the lawn that reads: “No shirt. No shoes. No service,” they’ll realize this new national rudeness has gone way, way too far.
What potential? He would have to work hard to be an average president. And he's fresh out of time. The fact is, whatever his alleged "potential," he has accomplished nothing constructive.
And THAT'S why he gets no respect. He doesn't deserve it.
William Thomas is quite the pud. Obama sucks, at everything except stirring up hate.
A real president would respect the laws.
A real president would not claim he can do anything he likes, even if it violates the laws.
A real president wouldn’t lie to the American people every time he opened his mouth.
A real president wouldn’t intentionally deceive the American people to pass legislation that harms them in numerous ways.
A real president wouldn’t continuously take actions that undermine our sovereignty and national defense.
A real president wouldn’t illegally release terrorists.
A real president wouldn’t make fun of Americans, calling them bitter clingers.
A real president wouldn’t target religious groups.
A real president would respect religious freedom.
A real president would respect the Bill of Rights.
A real president would not be secretly meeting with agitators and urging them to “stay the course.”
A real president would not automatically be taking the side of gang bangers who attack American citizens and law enforcement officers who defend themselves.
A real president would not be encouraging black racism and violence.
A real president would not be going abroad to commit the United States to international conventions that are harmful to the country and empower others who are hostile to us.
A real president would not spend all his time playing golf.
A real president would not spend all his time taking vacations.
A real president would not be going to expensive parties every night all across the country, at the taxpayers’ expense.
A real president would actually go to work in the morning, instead of showing up, if at all, at 10:30 in the morning and then leaving for lunch and then catching Air Force 1 to his next dinner party.
A real president would have paid attention to the daily briefings warning him of attacks on our embassies.
A real president would have worked to get our citizens out of Mexican jails where they had been unlawfully held.
A real president would not have armed gangs and enemies of our country.
A real president would have respected the oath of office he took when he became president.
Obama is not a real president.
Notice how this sappy crap drips out when Democrats are in office. There is the party in power, and the opposition party, and it is the job of the opposition to party to oppose, especially with an incompetent, witless commie in the White House.
Hey, I'd be willing to give that a try.
Your forgot the “Barf Alert.” This writer must be too young to remember the horrible scorn heaped on Nixon and later Reagan by the Left.
PFL
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No Mr Thomas, he is not my President. He is the black President. Or to be more precise, the black’s President.
Obviously a liberal Canadian bloviating about the worst president in history. I can only say to this guy ...I wish he were the leader of Canada instead of the US!!
Oh, but he isn't. Well, maybe in name only. He apparently sees himself as the leader of world socialism.
...Rush Limbaugh boasted publicly that he hoped the president would fail...
Bravo for Rush, I'm right there with him. bammy's agenda is and always has been to "fundamentally transform America." Problem is, that is a huge move away from America's founding principles to the left, socialism and fascism. Un-American doesn't even begin to cover it.
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.
It is accepted because it is so true and needs to be stopped.
Boy - (and I do mean Boy, as in little) - go and risk your life and do something worthwhile before you open that sewer you call a mouth. I have been deployed with Canadians, and you are not worth the sweat off their........ I’ll just leave it there
Boy - (and I do mean Boy, as in little) - go and risk your life and do something worthwhile before you open that sewer you call a mouth. I have been deployed with Canadians, and you are not worth the sweat off their........ I’ll just leave it there
To William Thomas :
Thhbbpppt!
Bronx cheer!
Raspberry!
Rude noise!
OK, now I wanna know, what has Mr. William Thomas been smoking??
Said Mr. Thomas has not been checking the zero’s approval ratings lately....
Okay, I’ll say it “He’s a Barack Mark on the presidency”.
He lied about his history.
Presented a fake Birth Certificate to the public.
He has outright lied about ObamaCare.
He has told our competitors such as Putin “I’ll have more flexibility after the election”. WTF???
He cancelled, without ceremony or ample notification, our missile defense systems with Poland, et all.
He destroyed the leadership of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya before we gained control over Crapgahnistan and Icrap.
Which, in turn imperiled our friends the Israelis and Jordanians.
He continues to lie about the nature of our predominantly Christian nation, syntheticly elevating Islam above our great history and lying outright about Islams contribution to the fabric of our history.
He lied about Islams contributions to the arts and sciences. Islam did not invent the zero. The zero came into existence long before Islam was a blip in the 7th century.
Oh, and FU!
Yer from Cana-duh?
clarification - that was directed to the author of the article, NOT 2nd Division Vet, for whom I have the highest respect
I think this clown went over Niagara Falls too many times without a barrel or helmet.
He’s got to stop drinking “Moose Whiz Whiskey”!
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