Thoughts and Commentary on an Obama Article

[Honeylioness]

This is my response to an article that was sent to me today. The complete article and link to the originating website can be found on the next page.

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I don’t like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no I demand respect for the Office of President and a love of our country and her citizenry from the leader entrusted with the governance of same.

This was the statement that struck home with me. I have never felt, or seen any evidence of, either of them wanting to serve the country they are citizens of. Nor do I have the sense, or seen evidence of, that President Obama has any respect for the position he holds. From not placing his hand over his heart during The Pledge, arrogantly putting his feet on the furniture in the Oval Office, his pandering to various international groups and countries and what I see as he unwillingness to put America’s well being and interest above anything else.

For me the first sign that he was primarily interested in how much he wanted to impress the public with how “cool” he seemed was his logo. And the audacity of replacing the American flag on his plane with this fad of “branding” as a tool to market yourself. What does that say to Americans? That we should be ashamed to proudly display our flag and celebrate our citizenship?

And has anyone checked out the official White House website lately? It used to be a good source of factual and historic information with images of the building’s architecture and décor. The whole thing now reads as a rather tacky InfoMercial for two people who come across as needy narcissists. Most of the building and room images contain one or more of them posed in “Aren’t We Wonderful?” stances. I also see them as constantly looking for ways to have the media liberal intelligencia validate them. A tactic I see as people who are so shallow they need to be constantly assured by others in order to have any sense of self worth.

And can anyone tell me why Michelle Obama, or ANY First Lady needs a staff of 22? For what? Making sure that they spell Marc Jacobs and Target correctly when talking about her clothes? I actually would quite happy if our country’s First Lady, no matter who she is, would just focus on her family, be a hostess when needed and not expect that they somehow had be granted some sort of political clout as an unspoken side benefit of her spouse being elected. Since the beginning of the twentieth century I know that many First Ladies have championed causes they believe in: Literacy, Urban Housing or Mental Health. But does supporting a cause and speaking at luncheons really require the tax payer to cover the cost of almost two dozen people to manage that?

Legally, Constitutionally, the First Lady has no official duties. The only duty I believe the public has ever expected from their First Ladies was to be the President’s wife and his hostess for official functions at the White House. In this, Jacqueline Kennedy set the bar fairly high for all those who have, or will, come after. Her poise and reserved demeanor in public created a model which I think many Americans came to expect from the First Lady. Which is not to say that she did not have a projects or interests – she did after all undertake the supervision of the renovations which restored the building and it’s décor to a more historically accurate and elegant look.

And okay – Michelle Obama has chosen Child Health as her focus. That’s fine. We should encourage parents to help their children make better choices about food and activity. I have no problem with that. But she seems to be focused on many other self-promoting activities and not so focused on her children. She moved her mother into the White House to act as a free baby sitter and child care provider. And she seems to be the primary point person for their school activities.

More troubling to me is the following quote from a Chicago newspaper:

Glued to the first family, she's not (Michelle’s mother). Michelle Obama told Women's Health Magazine last year that "Grandma" doesn't always eat dinner with the four of them so they can have a "chance to bond." March 08, 2010|By Katherine Skiba, Chicago Tribune reporter.

Does it strike anyone else as sad that a mother needs to make special arrangements to bond with her own children? It does me, but then in current society it seems to me we have more people focusing on their own careers and desires for money and status – so that the role of “parent” has been downgraded to a minor and not very important part of their lives. Not that many parents I know under the age of 40 or so seem to truly understand proper discipline for their children.

So I agree with the author. It is time for these two people to leave MY White House and for the country to elect a President I do not feel the need to apologize for.

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Sources:

data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1962281_2053916,00.html

millercenter.org/president/kennedy/essays/firstlady

[Honeylioness]

Why I Do Not Like The Obamas


Posted on 22 February 2012.

The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn’t like the Obama’s? Specifically I was asked: “I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama’s? It seems personal not policy related. You even dissed their Christmas family pic.” The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, and I certainly do not like his policies and legislation.

I’ve made no secret of my contempt for the Obamas. As I responded to the person who asked me the aforementioned question, I don’t like them because they are committed to the fundamental change of my/our country into what can only be regarded as a Communist state.

I don’t hate them per definition, but I condemn them because they are the worst kind of racialists, they are elitist Leninists with contempt for traditional America. They display disrespect for the sanctity of the office he holds, and for those who are willing to admit same Michelle Obama’s raw contempt for white America is transpicuous.

I don’t like them because they comport themselves as emperor and empress. I expect, no I demand respect for the Office of President and a love of our country and her citizenry from the leader entrusted with the governance of same. President and Mrs. Reagan displayed an unparalleled love for the country and her people. The Reagans made Americans feel good about themselves and about what we could accomplish. Could you envision President Reagan instructing his Justice Department to act like jack-booted thugs?

Presidents are politicians and all politicians are known and pretty much expected to manipulate the truth, if not outright lie, but even using that low standard, the Obama’s have taken lies, dishonesty, deceit, mendacity, subterfuge and obfuscation to new depths. They are verbally abusive to the citizenry and they display an animus for civility.

I do not like them, because they both display bigotry overtly, as in the case of Harvard Professor Louis Gates, when he accused the Cambridge Police of acting stupidly, and her code speak pursuant to now being able too be proud of America. I view that statement and that mindset as an insult to those who died to provide a country where a Kenyan, his illegal alien relatives, and his alleged progeny, could come and not only live freely, but rise to the highest, most powerful, position in the world. Michelle Obama is free to hate and disparage whites, because Americans of every description paid with their blood to ensure her right to do same.

I have a saying, that “the only reason a person hides things, is because they have something to hide.” No president in history has spent over a million dollars to keep his records and his past sealed. And what the two of them have shared has been proved to be lies. He lied about when and how they met, he lied about his mother’s death and problems with insurance, Michelle lied to a crowd pursuant to nearly $500,000 bank stocks they inherited from his family. He has lied about his father’s military service, about the civil rights movement, ad nauseum.

He lied to the world about the Supreme Court in a State of the Union address. He berated and publicly insulted a sitting Congressman. He has surrounded himself with the most rabidly, radical, socialist academicians today. He has fought for abortion procedures and opposed rulings that protected women and children, that even Planned Parenthood did not seek to support. He is openly hostile to business and aggressively hostile to Israel.

His wife treats being the First Lady, as her personal American Express Black Card (arguably the most prestigious credit card in the world). I condemn them because, as people are suffering, losing their homes, their jobs, their retirements, he and his family are arrogantly showing off their life of entitlement – as he goes about creating and fomenting class warfare.

I don’t like them, and I neither apologize nor retreat from my public condemnation of them and of his policies. We should condemn them for the disrespect they show our people, for his willful and unconstitutional actions pursuant to obeying the Constitutional parameters he is bound by, and his willful disregard for Congressional authority.

Dislike for them has nothing to do with the color of their skin, it has everything to do with their behavior, attitudes, and policies. And I have open scorn for their playing the race.

It is my intention to do all within my ability to ensure their reign is one term. I could go on, but let me conclude with this. I condemn in the strongest possible terms the media for refusing to investigate them as they did President Bush and President Clinton, and for refusing to label them for what they truly are. There is no scenario known to man, whereby a white president and his wife could ignore laws, flaunt their position, and lord over the people as these two are permitted out of fear for their color.

As I wrote in a syndicated column titled “Nero In The White House” – “Never in my life, inside or outside of politics, have I witnessed such dishonesty in a political leader. He is the most mendacious political figure I have ever witnessed. Even by the low standards of his presidential predecessors, his narcissistic, contumacious arrogance is unequalled. Using Obama as the bar, Nero would have to be elevated to sainthood…Many in America wanted to be proud when the first person of color was elected president, but instead, they have been witness to a congenital liar, a woman who has been ashamed of America her entire life, failed policies, intimidation and a commonality hitherto not witnessed in political leaders. He and his wife view their life at our expense as an entitlement – while America’s people go homeless, hungry and unemployed.” (WND.com; 8/8/11)

Oh, and as for it being personal, you tell me how you would feel if a senator from Illinois sent you a personally signed card, intended to intimidate you and your family. Because you had written a syndicated column titled “Darth Democrat” that was critical of him. (WND.com 11/16/04)

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