OBAMA TELLS AMERICANS TO “SHUT UP”

The President of the United States has taken direct aim at vocal Americans. In a blunt caution to political friend and foe, he said yesterday that partisan rants and name-calling under the guise of legitimate discourse pose a serious danger to America's democracy, and may incite "extreme elements" to violence. The comments were Obama's most direct remarks about the angry politics that have engulfed his Presidency after long clashes over health care, taxes and the role of government.

COMMENTS:

Well, Mr. President, I have two things to say about that: (1) I have every right to bluntly speak my mind about the way you run your government. As much as you would like to change that fact, the 1st Amendment of the Constitution guarantees my right. You and your colleagues have called me, an American, virtually every uncouth name under the sun and you are actively stirring up racial divisiveness. (2) Since you are the one who is providing the fuel for our rhetoric, it seems to me that your remarks are an overt attempt to deny your own responsibilities for our reactions and to stir up shit. This is one American who will not shut up and get out of your way, under any circumstances.

TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:

Q. Will the spreading oil in the Gulf affect weather? (Penny ~ Augusta, ME)
A. There is a whole lot of weather that either starts in the Gulf or comes through the Gulf in the form of hurricanes. Due to the slick size, I would be surprised if the weather is not affected.  Not to scare anyone, can you imagine a hurricane zipping through the Gulf, picking up water and oil and dumping it on land? Hurricane season starts soon. Gives a whole new meaning to carrying umbrellas and wearing your rubbers, doesn't it? 

Q. Are they going to cancel the National Day of Prayer? (Carlisle ~ Montgomery, AL)
A. It’s been declared unconstitutional by some twit Judge. Obama says we’re going to have it anyway, but Franklin Graham can’t come. Maybe Jeremiah Wright will take his place?


Q. Do you think that we would be in the situation we are in if we had been following our religious principles? (Theron ~ Menlo Park, CA)
A. No. And those who say this nation was not founded upon religious principles should be required to study the Federalist Papers.

TODAY’S QUOTE:

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 

“But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." ~ Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

TODAY’S VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYW2xXxFVtU

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