A Canadian View Of Our Politics

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We have to go outside of our own borders to get an honest editorial! How sad!

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A Canadian View Of Our Politics

From Canada ~ A MUST READ!!!

Check out this article from Canada :
http://www.seniorlivingmag.com/articles/america-hes-your-president-for-goodness-sake
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 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 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 mindless national rudeness has gone

way, way too far. And I may realise, sooner rather than later,that I've just wasted my time

writing this.


Ah America - Canada, Leave her to heaven!