President Deserves Respect
The discontent being expressed about our country and our president is quite disturbing. The lack of respect shown to our president by parents who did not permit their children to hear his speech was evidence of teaching disrespect for authority with parental approval. Respect is the core of family values.
There are those who make obscene statements and compare our president to the communist and Nazi parties. I have been to Russia and have seen six-story apartment buildings where everyone lives in the towns and only a select few are allowed to own property. There is no free enterprise and one does not question authority, let alone protest against it. We have only to read about the Holocaust and the extermination of millions of people by Hitler and his regime to remind us of the Nazi horrors.
The Social Security Act was passed in 1935, and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with very little Republican support. In 1965, the Medicare program was passed during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson under the same conditions. Our citizens awaited eagerly the time when they will be eligible for both benefits. Neither program has proven to be meddlesome or intrusive in our lives, as some charge.
We should question the propaganda aired every day by the right wing media, which creates confusion and succeeds in developing a culture of hatred in the process. The framers of our Constitution were concerned not only about our freedoms, but the tyranny of the mob. Mob mentality can have disastrous results.
It is time we think about the universal need of health care and not of partisan politics or racial bias. We have a very capable president who is well-educated in constitutional law and who has served as a professor of law at the University of Chicago law school. Perhaps we should allow him to do the job he promised and we elected him to do.
Hazel Morrell
Bluff City, Tenn.
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chester wrote “unless of course it is to make a hasty generalization about me.“
Do you even know what a hasty generalization is?
You wrote “If you need more just do some research on how those on the right reacted when the Dixie Chicks criticized President Bush”
The chicks situation was one of there own making. If you make statements then you must deal with the consequences. Bush had nothing to do with the fallout they encountered. It probably didnt help they came out and insulted their fans after the bad reaction to Maines comments.
chester wrote “Strawman alert.* How is name calling a “typical liberal tactic?“ How specifically is my argument WEAK (not week)? Wat is your argument, other than to resort to the exact same tactics you accuse me of when you generalize me as a “typical liberal” who has to use names and insults?“
Well’ if you will read your own words from the post you will see that is exactly what you did. Your words are your words.
Here is the military commander-in-chief.
“Charges Dropped Vs. Suspect in 2000 USS Cole Blast
Pentagon confirms Gitmo judge drops charges against suspect in 2000 USS Cole bombing
By LARA JAKES Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON February 5, 2009 (AP)
The Pentagon’s senior judge overseeing terror trials at Guantanamo Bay dropped charges Thursday against an al-Qaida suspect in the 2000 USS Cole bombing, upholding President Barack Obama’s order to freeze military tribunals there. The charges against suspected al-Qaida bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri marked the last active Guantanamo war crimes case.“
I guess those sailors lives were not worth very much to the president.
Obama reinstated the Mexico city act. He is allowing taxpayer money to fund abortions in foreign countries in the middle of a severe economic crisis. Never mind the money, but what about the murder of the unborn. There is your “family man”.
To expand abit on why “official” communism disapproves of the Kim Jong Il personality cult style government;Stalin in Russia…a disaster for the country, Mao in China, although still venerated, he was also a disaster for his country,Tito in Yugoslavia…total non-co-operation with the Soviets (from their point of view) Ceaucescu in Romania…same as above just less so, and finally Castro in Cuba..a still ongoning disaster for his country….Does Kim deserve respect? No. Did he earn the office? No. As I said…apples and oranges.
President Kim Jong Il? His is the presidency of an inherited dictatorship, a non- “elected” son in a personality cult that main-line communism no longer even approves of. (Except in North Korea and Cuba etc.)You are comparing apples and oranges to compare him to the freely elected president of a democracy.
IRS-
Who? Chester?
No he doesn’t. He is Anti-Everything America is all about.
Does Kim Jong Il deserve respect? He is the PRESIDENT of North Korea??
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?????????????
Farmer-
looks certain that Valerie Jarret won’t be able to get the feds to rebuild the public hosing development in Chicago where they were going to put the Olympic Colosseum. -Much to her tremendous financial LOSS…
Pity!
Farmer,
I will have to agree with you on that. I think a person can disagree with President Obama with out being branded a racist! I think that is absurd. If Al Sharpton would have called Obama a liar then it would have been the gospel and nothing said! I think people create racism when they do that. I didnt see any black people being branded a racist when they disagreed with former President George W. Bush! We need Mike Huckabee or Ross Perot the next election! Meanwhile we need to respect the current President elect. All we can do is vote.
Does anyone know the costs that came with sending both Obamas to Copenhagen? I’m waiting for all the Bush bashers to discuss the cost effectiveness of this trip.
And what message does it send that the U.S. was eliminated early in the quest for the Olympics? Perhaps President Obama wasn’t taken very seriously.
Oh, I know….the whole world must be a bunch of racists!!!! Let’s start the investigation now!!!
My Oh My- He sure was effective in Copenhagen, now wasn’t he?
Perhaps the rest of the world is getting tired of his teleprompter Campaigns without substance, too…
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