So much for Obama R-E-S-P-E-C-T (LAUGH ALERT)

Two weeks later the letters and blogs are still rolling in, reacting to my June 23 column, “Disparaging the president is Uncalled for.” Many echoed Terry Maher of Chicago (the letters are edited for space):

“Seeing that you’re so agitated by ‘disparaging’ criticism of the president, could you please forward me all of the columns (there must be dozens, I’m sure) that you wrote decrying the vicious, vile and despicable things that were written and said about President Bush? Thanks, I’ll be over here turning blue from holding my breath.”

Others added to the vitriol: “Yes, Ms. Washington, ‘R-E-S-P-E-C-T’ is how the song goes,” wrote Frank Kalisz of Brookfield. “However, respect is earned, not acquired with a title. This impostor, Barack Obama, Barry Soetoro, or whatever his name is, has not earned one ounce of R-E-S-P-E-C-T! But worst of all, it is people like you, who cannot stand to see a black man fail so miserably that they cannot see the demise of this once great country that he and his cronies have made happen.”

It seems to me that the attacks on this president come more often from people of high status and power. It should be beneath them. And do two wrongs make a right?

Chicagoan Joe Pipolo argued that “this idea if you criticize the president makes you a racist is absolutely ridiculous. We voted for a black president twice and you Dems and libs are still relying on the race card. President Obama is not a very good leader, he was never qualified and you can’t run a country on charisma.”

Ray Young is “not a fan” and never voted for Obama. Yet, he “is still the president of the United States! It is so horrible to see all these attacks on the president in TV ads and editorials. I wish all political parties could just talk about themselves rather than the other parties.”

Rosemarie Sulek of Chicago: “Besides the open and not-so-open racism exhibited toward the president at every turn, (the attacks) result from the enormous insecurity and basic jealousy of politicians toward Barack Obama (or any black person) as president. This is, to say the least, an embarrassing and shameful reflection on our entire country. This is not a generational issue or a Southern issue, it is plain ignorance of the highest measure. History, I believe, will set the record straight.”

“The blame for disparaging the president has to be placed solely on the shoulders of President Clinton, The culprit is Bill Clinton,” wrote Mike Kirchberg of Chicago. Clinton “used the Oval Office for oral sex with Monica. He cheapened the office like no other president had before him or after him. After his sordid eight years were over, so many Americans were no longer of the opinion that the president of our nation was special.”

Kevin Currid of Palatine concluded that “a lack of civility seems to know no political boundaries. Few are above reproach. The best I can do is to not practice incivility myself (as best I can) and encourage others to stop where possible, regardless of their political stand. There are many issues today to be passionate about. However, we’d be a much better nation and state if we all genuinely respected each other.”

An email I received today about our very accomplished _resident...

STOP TRASHING OBAMA

by COL. ROBERT F. CUNNINGHAM and
PATRICK RISHOR, The Gilmer Mirror

Quit trashing Obama’s accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

First President to violate the War Powers Act.

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.

First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).

First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office

First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.

First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.

First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to go on multiple “global apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.

First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.

First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.

First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).

First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.”

Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. (Thank God he didn’t get away with THIS one.)

How is this hope and change working out for you?

It absolutely boggles the mind to try and comprehend all this guy has gotten away with. Any other president would have been impeached!!!!

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