Posted on 09/16/2009 10:03:33 PM PDT by Joiseydude
Welcome to the post-racial presidency of Barack Obama, in which it has suddenly become a racial issue when American citizens dare to criticize the president. Now, this is so silly, so asinine that it boggles the mind of any rational person. If there is one thing even more American than apple pie, it is the rhetorical slicing and dicing of our presidents. This stems from the egalitarian nature of our Constitution and our forceful, revolutionary rebuke of royalty. Rhetorically eviscerating presidents as the servants of the people they are constitutionally mandated to be is as much an American pastime as baseball.
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Between the oh-so-courtly RINOs and the full-of-themselves Rats, one would never suspect this today.
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."Theodore Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star
May 7, 1918
I’ve never read this writer before. She uses words well. Thanks!
The utilization of the race card will inevitably backfire, if not already, on many, many of those using it. Bet.
I’m not afraid to be called a racist for rejecting this marxist posers punks push for socialism.
I am a capitalist. I love my country and most of my country men.
Don’t care what color you are if you try to make my country Europe lite I will fight against it. And I’m glad to see a whole lot of my country men feel the same way.
You socialists can take that to the bank.
The RACE CARD is what got the illegal alien usurper’s foot in the door to our W.H.!!!
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