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

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

I construct your words on national unity, at the end of your recent speech on the Afghanistan war, both empty and frustrating:
" This vast and mixed citizenry will not always subscribe on every question – 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 confess ourselves to be split asunder by the corresponding animosity and disbelief and nepotism that has in recent times poisoned our national discourse.
It is easy to forget that when this fighting began, we were united – bound together by the fresh subconsciousness of a funky dirty deed, and by the determination to defend our homeland and the values we hold dear. I refuse to accept the conviction that we cannot tell that unity and. I take it with every fiber of my being that we – as Americans – can still come together behind a common purpose. For our values are not cleverly 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 happy and yearning for unity but your actions and silence strew 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 " quarrel ", as if they were children dust over the last piece of cake.
- When Air Force One and an accompanying Air Force warrior made very low flight passes over New York City, causing trepidation and anxiety in those New Yorkers on the ground who were reliving the dangerous memories of the 9 - 11 attacks, you displayed an snooty insensitivity by working the incident into a quip you told several days successive at a gala.
- 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 Money in the summer, your were silent.
- When Pelosi and Reid and a small cabal of Democrats took the health care reform legislation exertion behind closed doors and into quick, no review votes, bypassing formal, cardinal, and democratic debate, you were silent.
- While you graciously and quickly accepted the penitence of Congressman Joe Wilson who yelled out " Liar " during your health care speech to Congress, when Pelosi went for a tremble of votary flesh by censuring the Congressman, you were silent.
- When ACORN came beneath contemplation for voter registration and child prostitution shenanigans and maul of taxpayer money, you were silent.
National unity usually manifests itself in one of two ways. First, an racy tragedy agnate as the foray on Treasure Harbor or the 9 - 11 attacks can trouble a state together. Second, a great leader matching as Churchill in World Cold war II or President Kennedy ' s Camelot vision can act the citizenry together for a greater purpose. However, allowing person riffraff to be called a - - h - - - s, un - American, smelly, knuckle dragging Neanderthals is no way to become a great superintendent of a unified nation. By utterance to American adults as if they were children, telling them to stop disputation when they were only freely telling their opinions and concerns is no way to become a great principal of a unified nation. Making light of American fears by telling a witticism about an incident that negatively impacted a lot of people is no way to become a great chief of a unified nation.
In less than a year you went from an scrutiny ranking over 70 % to an trial evaluating beneath 50 %, not through you made difficult and indomitable decisions but whereas your were silent, condescending, and insensitive. Not unlike a high proof evaluating provided an unprecedented opportunity at national unity that you lust for. You mislaid that historic opportunity when you went from being the aspiration for a better national future to becoming just higher supporter politician undifferentiated the rest of the political class in Washington. What a dishonour.