An Open Letter To President Obama - Seeking Unity But Sowing Disunity

An Open Letter To President Obama - Seeking Unity But Sowing Disunity

I commence your words on national unity, at the end of your recent speech on the Afghanistan contention, both empty and frustrating:
" This vast and varied citizenry will not always grant on every topic – nor should we. But I also know that we, as a country, cannot sustain our leadership nor navigate the thrust challenges of our time if we allow ourselves to be split asunder by the corresponding aversion and disbelief and patronage that has in recent times poisoned our national discourse.
It is easy to forget that when this contest began, we were united – bound together by the fresh reflection of a eccentric dirty deed, and by the determination to defend our homeland and the values we hold dear. I refuse to accept the concept that we cannot impart that unity further. I understand with every fiber of my being that we – as Americans – can still come together behind a common purpose. For our values are not wittily words written into parchment – they are a creed that calls us together, and that has carried us through the darkest of storms as one nation, one people. "
Here you are utopian and yearning for unity but your actions and silence broadcast disunity:
- When Americans were rising up and demanding answers to unclear health care reform issues and legislation, you condescended to those in disagreement and told them to stop " dissension ", as if they were children scrap over the last piece of cake.
- When Air Force One and an accompanying Air Force doughboy made very low flight passes over New York Vicinity, causing hysteria and bugbear in those New Yorkers on the ground who were reliving the hateful memories of the 9 - 11 attacks, you displayed an conceited insensitivity by working the incident into a pun you told several days successive at a reception.
- When Nancy Pelosi called those in disagreement with health care reform plans " un - American ", you were silent.
- When Democratic Congressman Grayson of Florida called all Republicans " knuckle dragging Neanderthals ", you were silent.
- When one of your czars, Van Jones, called all Republicans a - - h - - - s in a public forum in Berkley that was captured on videotape and YouTube, you were silent.
- When Henry Reid stated publicly that American tourists, the very taxpayers that pay Congressional salaries, physically smell when they visit the nation ' s Finance in the summer, your were silent.
- When Pelosi and Reid and a small cabal of Democrats took the health care reform legislation tug behind closed doors and into quick, no review votes, bypassing formal, meaningful, and democratic debate, you were silent.
- While you graciously and quickly accepted the discomfort of Congressman Joe Wilson who yelled out " Liar " during your health care speech to Congress, when Pelosi went for a hit of backer flesh by censuring the Congressman, you were silent.
- When ACORN came subservient the eye for voter registration and child prostitution shenanigans and harm of taxpayer money, you were silent.
National unity often manifests itself in one of two ways. First, an rousing tragedy approximating as the onslaught on Pearl Harbor or the 9 - 11 attacks can trial a sphere together. Second, a great rector such as Churchill in World Combat II or President Kennedy ' s Camelot vision can strain the citizenry together for a greater purpose. However, allowing comrade dudes to be called a - - h - - - s, un - American, smelly, knuckle dragging Neanderthals is no way to become a great officer of a unified nation. By conversation to American adults as if they were children, telling them to stop scrap when they were only freely expressive their opinions and concerns is no way to become a great head of a unified nation. Making light of American fears by telling a yarn about an incident that negatively impacted a lot of people is no way to become a great herald of a unified nation.
In less than a year you went from an lick ranking over 70 % to an catechism classifying underneath 50 %, not whereas you made difficult and chivalrous decisions but thanks to your were silent, condescending, and insensitive. Identical a high trial rating provided an unprecedented opportunity at national unity that you dream for. You disoriented that historic opportunity when you went from being the bright side for a better national future to becoming just added partisan politician close the rest of the political class in Washington. What a ignomity.