Since Obama's election a cottage industry of "Hate Obama" Email screeds has sprung up
in the nation. It parallels and goes hand in hand with the Tea Party movement in
that both have an unreasoned anger against "the government", "them" (who took OUR government away from us), a black Muslim President who is single-handed turning our country !!Socialist!!, who had the gall to want to give medical care to millions of TRUE Americans who didn't have it, and many more equally absurd gripes.
Under all there hides a venomous racist resentment and a refusal to accept that this nation is a democracy, which means we accept the decision of the electorate and wait until the next election to change it if we lose. We don't promote a revolution to undo it.
By trying to undermine and nullify a president we POISON the social contract which sustains our democracy, to the detriment of all. We have only one president, and he is subject to the restraints of the legislative and judiciary branches. No President can turn our nation Socialist, or any other ...IST by himself. And no President can govern responsibly if he bends to the passions of each and every protest group. That way lies chaos, because never in our history has the populace been unanimous about any policy! Informed and vigorous dissent is the lifeblood of our democracy. Don't
spill that blood recklessly!
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Marty, I agree with you. The previous president was not even elected to his first term, he was nominated by the Supreme Court. So, we accepted him though it did not follow the correct procedure. Once Al Gore made his decision, many of us had the accept him. That was it. He was our president in spite of the wars, lies and neglect.
Now it's time for the other side to accept, even if they don't like the choice. As you said, it is a democracy.
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