HE'S YOUR PRESIDENT FOR GOODNESS SAKE!

[babylonsister]

From FB, Canada
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201582387259591&set=a.1574668124690.2076855.1175178013&type=1&theater


Here is what our neighbor says.


Long...but WELL WORTH reading: 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.

[sheshe2]

1. Excellent!

Canada shows it's smarts.

Wake up America and look, truly look at who is standing in front of you. Look who is standing up for you.

Thank you babylonsister, great find. I so wish I saw it first!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. This is great!

[IrishAyes]

3. Excellent. If only we could get RWingers to read it.

Maybe that's what people should print out to take with them to Thanksgiving Dinner. Lean on that part about "America, you know not what you have."

[sheshe2]

4. Think about it!

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.

[giftedgirl77]

5. K & R

This is an amazing article & says exactly what many of us feel. There are haters on both sides of the aisle that do not know how fortunate we are to have BHO as our POTUS.

[freshwest]

6. I'm ashamed of the way Americans have treated this man. Deeply disturbed and shamed.

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.

Once a month I go past a house with that horrid picture described in the article in the window. The owners had the lawn and windows plastered with GOP/Tea Party signs on election day. Then took them all down the next day, all save that one.

I keep wondering, in this blue area, what's going on. Yet the vile, ignorant, crude image remains, a year later, degrading our community and country.

Yes, Americans do not know what we have as we have lost our minds.

[struggle4progress]

12. +

[nenagh]

7. I am worried for Pres Obama's safety. I live on the north side of the St. Lawrence River.

"At some point, the treatment of President Obama went from offensive to ugly to downright dangerous."

The writer of this great piece senses this also.

I hope and actually pray that President Obama's security people keep him cocooned and safe from some rabid, hate filled demented being.

[Hekate]

8. When I read that, I am embarrassed for my country. The word "vulgar" really does fit. Dangerous, too

Last edited Fri Nov 22, 2013, 04:18 AM - Edit history (1)

I do worry for his safety -- always. Swathes of my nation have turned into morons, and they are armed. The neighbors are talking.

[pansypoo53219]

9. presidenting while black. PWB

[treestar]

10. I'm most annoyed by their complete failure to govern with him at all

the filibusters over everything, the shut downs and debt ceiling ultimatums (especially the last one with their demands that he agree to changes of an already passed law) - their use of everything they can think of to block his agenda without the least concern for anything else but their own power.

[hopemountain]

11. excellent editorial from canada

just shows us even more how his integrity has touched the world.
i pray for his safety & his family's safety - always.