Obama on John Stewart show.
It was embarrassing. Young people develop their attitudes of respect toward other people on the basis of shows like this and John Stewart set a new standard with President Obama.
I am reminded about a story regarding John F Kennedy. He had just won the 1960 Presidential Election and he was the honored guest at his family home in Hyannisport, MA. There was a gentleman who approached the new President with a comment similar to the following, " I am not sure what to call you. You are the son of one of my best friends. I have known you since you were a small lad but now you are the President of the United States. Shall I call you John or Jack? How would you prefer to be addressed?" Kennedy's response was, "Call me Mr. President."
I do not believe that President Kennedy was being arrogant toward his father's friend. I believe that he believed that the office deserved a certain respect that would never allow a President to be referred to by his first name, not even among casual friends. I am certain that President Kennedy would never have sanctioned being addressed as "Dude".
Ronald Reagan would never consider entering the Oval Office when not wearing a suit jacket and a tie.
John Adams was known for the following prayer regarding the White House but it of course is about the occupant.
"I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof."
Haven't we come a long way in a very short amount of time? First Clinton and now Obama. Democrats, is this the best you have to offer?
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I don't care if we call the president YO!
as long as he knows how to do his job.
I don't care if he wears a tie or his pajamas in the oval office, as long as he knows how to adequately and fairly represent the American people.
Caring about such trivialities when so much more is at stake is a typical tea party notion. iI am not surprised.
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I wanted to try to understand what the tea party platform was and what i see is the enemy of the state and racism disguised as a revolution. when you look at the original tea party members why were they dressed as native americans instead of as themselves? When a president democratic or republican sits in the oval office, he is supposed to represent the people not just a segment of the people and i strongly beleive that he has not played the race card. he has actually tried to downplay race when i as an african american see the reason that he is not being accepted is because of two things one he is not willing to play ball ie get in bed with big business and two he is a black man. these two reasons have made certain individuals feel free to call him less than presidential, boy, unqualified, just a law proffesor, and an enemy of the state. when american was in its infancy the people who were called to be presidents were lawyers, business men and sometimes simple farmers. though i know we have come a long way since then, we have lost who we are. people who came here(notblacks originally but now yes)to start anew. Thatis what president obama is trying to do but he is being fought tooth and nail the whole way. If democrats are to blame when will republicans see their own faults? how does a president and vice president sit on the boards of major oil and business corporations while holding the highest offices and noone says a word. how is that in the best interest of the country? it is not and republicans aren't looking out for middle americans like me either. sadly neither are the democrats who are afriad. who will stand up and restore america to an acceptable place in this global economy, education,& health care services. i think we shame ourselves; what does the rest of the world see when they look at us now? i see less togetherness and more unrest. God help us.
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Celeste
There is something particularly frustrating about people who see race in every motivation. There is nothing at all racist about the Tea Party. Nothing at all. Oh the NAACP went after the Tea Party last summer but their purpose was political. They had no evidence of racist leanings within the Tea Party because we are not racist. Perhaps you aren't aware but there was some recent polling done by a graduate student at UCLA who found the Tea Party had fewer racist participation than is normally found in the general population.
http://online.wsj.com/video/study-finds-tea-party-not-racist/C815C7C9-17A5-41AC-B940-E9457E59B088.html
Perhaps you are also unaware that persons who attend Tea Parties with racist signs or attitudes are confronted and asked to leave.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYfmShJe5MA
Perhaps you are unaware of the many black individuals who actively participate in the Tea Party movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CLPhz0DHM
And perhaps you are unaware that the Tea Party is on the verge of electing as a result of their support 37 black conservatives on November 2.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/5030-tea-party-could-put-record-number-of-black-conservatives-in-office
As I read through your comments it was obvious that you spoke from the heart. What was also obvious was that you are tremendously uninformed about some matters. No American President or Vice President has ever sat on the Board of Directors of any corporation while they held office. Dick Cheney as an example was forced to divest himself of his ownership interest in Haliburton prior to his running for office. Thus I would ask you to look at this again and ask whoever told you that American Presidents or Vice Presidents sat on boards to cite their proof. There will not be any.
You considered it racist because the Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians when they boarded the ship in Boston Harbor. No. They dressed as Indians so as to not be easily recognized by harbor masters and others who could have them individually put in jail.
When any President, Republican or Democrat sits in office he is supposed to represent all the people. These are the only two nationally elected office holders in our Constitution. This cannot mean that he will make everybody happy with his decisions but everyone should be taken into account. I ask you the following about the Obama Administration:
Why did Barack Obama immediately criticize the Cambridge Policeman when he arrested the Harvard professor Henry Gates? Why did he call the arrest "stupid" after having admitted he knew nothing of the details of the arrest?
Why did the Obama Justice Department drop charges against the two New Black Panthers who stood in front of the doors to that Philadelphia polling place in military garb, one with a night stick, and attempted to intimidate Pennsylvania voters? Charges had been brought and a judgment was in process as a result of their having not appeared on their trial date. Eric Holder, Obama's Attorney General simply dropped those charges.
Why does Barack Obama refuse to enforce all our nation's laws? Is he not the President of all Americans? Why has he sued Arizona for creating a law that only mirrors federal law and whose purpose is only to enforce a federal law Obama refuses to enforce?
Barack Obama is actually the most racist president in my lifetime. Contrary to your statement he has not downplayed race at all. He recently went to a Nevada rally and did his best to divide races by telling Hispanics that the Republican candidates were their enemies. Excuse me? You say he hasn't played the race card yet he has played it time after time over the past two years.
You think Barack Obama is not in bed with big business. Do you know Goldman Sachs? He saved the bacon of AGI and many banks with my tax dollars. Where in the Constitution do you see his authority to spend tax dollars from the treasury to prop up his friends in big business? Do you think perhaps that George Soros might qualify as big business? He is certainly a big investor and he supports Obama and has made a half dozen trips to the White House this year. Bill Gates is a supporter of Obama. He formed and still owns the majority of shares in Microsoft. Warren Buffet is as big business as they come and he is an Obama supporter. Obama is in bed with big business as much as any president. Why do you think that green jobs and Cap and Trade are so important to him? It will be his friends in big business who will benefit from sales of carbon credits (Goldman Sachs) to the tunes of billions of dollars. He is also in bed with big Labor. From my perspective this is a business as well. It is perhaps the most undemocratic of all our nations voluntary institutions. Labor takes dues from workers that are to be used for the benefit of the workers but instead they pump hundreds of millions of dollars into Democrat campaign coffers and those who disagree with the Democrat platform but are members of that union are simply out of luck. Their payoff will come from the Obama Administration when they pass Card Check. This will give unions the right to organize work forces in businesses without the benefit of a secret ballot. All workers will be exposed to the union thugs because their votes will be open to public view if this passes. Now this is truly shameful and should never happen in this country. The Public Employees unions have a stranglehold on the Congress and have for years. Do you not see the very real conflict of interest between the Congress who votes for programs like Card Check that benefit the unions and when the unions reward those Congressmen with handsome campaign contributions? Quid pro quo should have no place in Congress but it is there. NBC, MSNBC, Disney, GE, ABC, CBS, CNN, all these corporations are supporters of the Democrat Party and Barack Obama. So please don't say that Barack Obama is pure because he refuses to get in bed with big business.
As for his color, the second of the two reasons you gave for the Tea Party not falling behind Barack Obama, no one cares. What we in the Tea Party care about is his spending. We care that he refuses to enforce our nation's laws. We care that he nationalized two of the country's largest auto makers. We care that he followed TARP which was itself a mistake with an $800 billion stimulus package that is bankrupting our country. We care that he supported and railroaded a healthcare bill through the Congress that 70% of the nation was telling him and the Congress that we did not want. We fear that the result of that bill will be to ruin what has always been the premier healthcare industry in the world. We care because we are already seeing increases in insurance premiums that I have heard reported to be as much as 47%. We care that when he took over General Motors and Chrysler that he bullied the secured bond holders of those companies and forced them to subordinate their debt to unsecured creditors, the labor unions. This was done via threats that the White House would use its powers to ruin their businesses. We care that he recently passed legislation to provide even more control and regulation over the financial industry. We care that he intends to pass Cap and Trade legislation that will drive everyone's utility bill up by as much as 100%. Do you not care about this? You likely pay for heat and light too. We care that in a period when he knows the country is hurting with 10% unemployment that he intends to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire which will force even further calamity upon our economy. We care that despite the bad times that his policies are causing for many Americans that he has absolutely no conscience or second thought about sending his family to Spain or taking multiple vacations on the taxpayer dole. We care that he intends to try to pass comprehensive immigration reform that would automatically increase the entitlement burden on this country by making up to 20 million people eligible overnight. We care that Barack Obama is a Marxist. We do not care that he is black. We hollered just as loudly at Jimmy Carter in 1980 for his incompetency.
I have personally called him a Marxist. I have heard others call him Socialist. I have obviously heard John Stewart call him "Dude". I have yet to hear anyone call him "boy" and I have heard no one refer to him as an "enemy of the state".
Obama is less than presidential. He bows to Saudi princes and embarrasses the country with inappropriate gifts to the Queen of England. He rudely returned a bust of Winston Churchill that had been a gift to the White House when he took residence. He refuses to defend a US state when President Calderon came to this country and stood before him then stood before Congress and lambasted Arizona for SB1070. How dare he not defend Arizona against the president of a foreign country who was a guest in our nation? How dare he?
Obama is not qualified to be president. This is an accurate statement. It is not a pejorative. He never ran a single thing in his life. His total adult life was spent as an attorney, as a community organizer and as a legislator before becoming president. He stood before the nation during his State of the Union Address and lied to all of us when he described the contents of the healthcare bill. Joe Wilson knew he was lying and he inappropriately hollered out that fact. Obama also used that event to admonish the third branch of government whose representatives were present for the speech. He lambasted the Supreme Court for a recent decision yet Obama's comments were factually incorrect. You could see Sam Alito mouth the words, "that's not true." But Alito had the class to not rise up and object. This was neither the time nor the place for such a statement from the President but it was entirely appropriate for someone who was still a community organizer. The cronies who had the greatest influence on his life include the Reverend Wright who is himself a dispicable old man who hates this country. His mentor growing up in Hawaii was Frank Marshall Davis, a card carrying member of the Communist Party. His associates in Illinois include Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, two members of the Weather Underground who bombed the Pentagon during the Vietnam War. She went to jail. He did not because of a technicality that prevented his prosecution. He was in bed with Tony Rezko, a convicted felon, while in the Illinois State Legislature. There are questions about a land deal. Rezko bought a lot next door to the house Obama bought and then sold a sufficient parcel of that land to Obama to render the other portion incapable of being developed. A nice deal if you can get it. It caused the value of Obama's property to rise. What do you suppose Obama gave Rezko for that deal and whose money do you suppose he used?
Of all that I have said above, where does the notion that he is black enter the picture in any one criticism?
George Washington was a surveyor by occupation and of course a General. You are correct that many of the other early presidents practiced law and yes, as you say, they were also farmers and philosophers. Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, was known as the first common man's president. He was not formally educated nor part of an elite, educated group of men. I am not sure of the point you were trying to make with this regard. You do attribute credit to Obama for attempting to bring new citizens to America and yes we are fighting him tooth and nail and we will continue to fight him. I know I certainly will. We don't oppose providing new immigrants a path to citizenship and the opportunity to become Americans. We simply wish them and the President to obey our immigration laws. It is as simple as this.
Among the great things about the Tea Party is that we are not only finding fault with the Democrats but we have taken shots at Republicans as well. If you will note, most recently Tea Party supported candidates were run in the Republican Party and they unseated Castle in Delaware, Bennett in Utah, Murkowski in Alaska, and it was also a Tea Party candidate who took the nomination away from the favorite in Nevada and who now stands to upset Harry Reid next week. Mark Rubio unseated Charlie Crist in Florida. Rand Paul upset the party establishment's pick in Kentucky. The Tea Party has been very clear to the Republican establishment that it will not be business as usual in Washington next year. Either Republicans hold the line on spending, repeal Obamacare, stop Cap and Trade, etc. or we will go further in search of new candidates in 2012 who will. I don't know what more we can do. I would say we have been successful already at sending Republicans packing. Now we want to send those Democrats packing who regard their own power as more important than the will of the people.
The purpose of government is found within the Constitution. Neither the President nor the Congress is supposed to be passing laws that extend beyond the boundaries of what is in that document. Sadly, they do it all the time. Theirs is not to prefer rich over poor, white over black, Christian over Jew or to prefer any group at all. The Constitution speaks to the rights of individuals, not groups. Don't expect the government to "look after" middle class America. Expect government to look after all of us because we are all Americans. Expect them to exercise their enumerated powers and no more.
Your question is excellent as to what the rest of the world sees when they look at us now. The only thing I can say for certain is that our fences, the ones we are trying to build, are intended to keep people out, not hold people in.
The Patriot
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Sarah Palin is a joke-she brings the tea party down.
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1. There is nothing wrong with the President identifying with the common American people by being called 'dude'. If anything, it boosts his image, in my opinion.
2. It's "Jon" Stewart, not "John". If you are making an argument, at least try to make sure your title doesn't cast a heavy doubt on the accuracy of the rest of your 'facts'.
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You may be comfortable with the President of the United States being called Dude on national television but I believe most would agree that this diminishes his stature both inside and outside the country. Not that he doesn't do a really good job of that on his own but the presidency deserves to be treated with respect. I might call him many things, none complimentary in conversation with others but if confronted with him face to face, I would call him Mr. President.
I didn't know who Jon Stewart was so please forgive my misspelling of his name. I did not realize that some would regard this as the most significant point of any discussion on presidential decorum.
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Funny how the lies of republicans are omitted. Reagan, the Teflon president, made some very unconstitutional moves, and was given a pass by the Right. Bush 1 and 2 both were very unapologetic about their deceptions, but oddly enough are not mentioned. nixon, the classic republican liar, is strangely absent from these pages.
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Chris,
When you accuse someone of lying you really need to give an example. Are we simply to believe you without evidence?
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