Welcom To The Minority

Doesn't get President Obama
Published by The Reporter
Posted: 06/26/2009 01:01:01 AM PDT

As a retired U.S. Air Force member, I have a familiarity with the oath of office and defending the Constitution of the United States. The current president and commander of the U.S. Armed Forces took the same oath (once in public and once in private). I am currently at a loss as to what country I belong. It is still called the United States of America, but I now answer to czars (21, as of my last count) who are appointed by the president and answer only to the president. Where is the congressional oversight? Is this "kinda like" a dictatorship? What happened to the Republican form of a democracy? Who owns our banks, automobile industry and insurance companies, while czars control private industry more and more each day? Do we have czarinas, dukes, princes/princesses ad nauseum in our future? Is Obama now king, or is he really the "anointed one"? What happened to our "free press"?

We originated from Judeo-Christian values and our President Barack Hussein Obama, born from an African-Arab and U.S. citizen who was later married to an Indonesian Muslim, says we are not a Christian country. Was Obama adopted by his Indonesian stepfather while they lived in Indonesia and Obama attended a Muslim school? Why did Obama not use the name Hussein during the campaign? Why did he claim to be a Christian while being a member of an Afro-centric church? I have not quite figured my president out, have you?

Do I dare use my constitutional right of political dissent and desire to see my country as a democratic republic, which is sliding very fast into socialism and maybe Marxism?

Yes, I do have the guts to honor my many-times-uttered oath of allegiance to my country and sign my name to this letter.

Robert Hind

Vacaville

First off, I would like to say to the writer of “Don’t get Obama,” I have the highest admiration for your sacrifice and duty to this country. Our military men and women are a great example to be proud of and should be real heroes to us all. But, I must say with all due respect, that this article points to a common theme among many secular and Christian conservatives today, who have found themselves (democratically mind you) voted out of the executive branch and both houses of congress, in a statement by the American people to see things in a more pragmatic and with a less one way or no way world view.

I would like to address your points one by one. There is congressional oversight; the fact of the matter is that congress largely agrees with the President on a majority of his policies. They were democratically elected by the people for the people. That is very American. Because they don’t share your political ideology does not mean they don’t represent a majority of Americans. Maybe America wants something different and through democratic means they spoke. What’s more American than that? Now you know what it feels like to be in the minority, a rare life experience in this country for white, conservative men over the last forty years. But in a democracy there has always been a minority. Welcome to the minority, it sucks doesn’t it?

The idea that we are becoming a socialist nation is an overstatement of fact and mere paranoia. Less 1% of American businesses are under the direct control and leadership of the American government. And if this is one of those give’em an inch and they’ll take a mile arguments than less than one percent is not an inch it is a merely a centimeter. America has a long history of nationalizing troubled economic assets, this is nothing new. If you think so than you are simply defining America’s history by what we have largely seen over the last 30 years.

Obama is not king, he was elected in a landslide (by Presidential standards) and the press is free. It is so free that they are allowed to disagree with you all they want. The old conservative guard is not in control for the first time in a long time and they don’t know what to do, so they are reverting to the elementary tactic of name calling; socialist, Muslim, anointed one, leftist. How about Mr. President elected by the American people, like it or not.

And your last argument is just an example of good old fashioned racism or at the very least ethnocentrism (a polite way of calling someone a racist.) I am a first generation American born of a Chinese immigrant. Does that make me a communist or a Buddhist, or maybe I’m a kung fu master. My father served this country in Vietnam and my Grandfather in World War II. Am I more or less of an American than you? Do you really know? Are we really a Christian nation or a nation of Christians? I say the latter. Scripturally speaking if we call ourselves a Christian nation than we have really missed the mark, the New Testament is about sacrifice and loving those that might not deserve it. It is not about capitalism or exclusion. As a matter of fact it is about accepting people who are different. It is our job to love one another, not to decide who gets what base on our ignorant and finite world view. We love, let God judge. If you disagree with that I suggest you go back and read the New Testament, again and again, until you completely understand what Jesus meant to mankind.