Comment #5

Piaceri — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:33:59 GMT

I can tolerate other opinions, and even have a pretty open discussion. Until the other person spews hate because I believe different. You don't have to hate to think differently or have differing views. It's rather disgusting the direction people in this country have taken. It all started with the Liberal hatred of Bush. I was shocked and sick to my stomach to read the vitriol being spewed on such websites as Democrat Underground during Bush's tenure. I was appalled at the pub... [ More ]

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LiLSpeedy — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:07:52 GMT

You asked where was I when Bush was being maligned? Unlike you, I did not participate in name-calling the POTUS. Even though he was a repub, he was still my President. I never wished his any harm or wished that he failed as POTUS. Common senses tells anyone that if he fails so does America. I will never be like you and your cohorts. You all have been involved with hating others all your miserable life.

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Piaceri — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:13:35 GMT

Rush hoped that Obama's policies failed... policies that were and are detrimental to a free economy. Joe Wilson was right, Obama lied about the details of the Healthcare bill. As long as we are talking about name calling... Obama called Americans who did not vote for him his "enemies" in a public speech days after his election. I am not his "enemy". I am an American citizen who voted fairly in elections as is my right. I resent being called names like 'racist' becaus... [ More ]

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LiLSpeedy — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:11:35 GMT

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LiLSpeedy — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:25:44 GMT

It is a shame when people of the most powerful country in the world let politics and prejudice cloud their thinking. Other countries are looking at the craziness that is going on and shaking their heads at the stupidity of some Americans. A lot of our attitudes are shaped when weâ€™re young. When our family members or friends express racist opinions, itâ€™s common that we will take on those views ourselves. The problem is that, unless we do something about it, they can stay with us for a lifetime. People are not born prejudice, it is strictly a LEARNED BEHAVIOR. And just as we learned it, we have to unlearn it or we are destined to be a miserable human-being for the rest of our days on this Earth.... [ More ]

Original Blog Entry: The President-From a Canadian Perspective

LiLSpeedy — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:25:24 GMT

The real problem with Americans and their disrespect for Obama according to a Canadian

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 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 theater 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 healthcare debate, which looked more like extreme fighting in a mud pit than a national dialogue, revealed a very vulgar side of America. 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 healthcare 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 honor 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 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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