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On Sun, 10/27/13, shirley smith <srs-usasc@rcn.com> wrote:
Subject: [WardFive] Canadian press on Obama. MUST READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To: "shirley smith" <srs-usasc@rcn.com>
Date: Sunday, October 27, 2013, 10:09 PM
Canadian press on President
OBama.)America - He's your
President for Goodness Sake!
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€and it'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 cannot 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 birther's 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
cares.
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 honor to meet the man or
utter encouraging words for the difficult job he is doing?
No. Quote: You're a hottie with a smoking 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 caveat like
with President Clinton "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.
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