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(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 its 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 barter’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 hogtie 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 Zambezi 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.
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