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In reply to the discussion: To all anti-Obama posters [View all]DearHeart
(692 posts)Ask yourself this! Would you want someone from say, Iran, or Saudi Arabia, or China, or North Korea, or any other country, to use drones on your house/neighborhood, simply because they "believed" that the terrorists they are looking for, might be hiding in the house next to yours? Would it be ok with you, if your family and friends were taken out by a drone (if they were collateral damage), while at a family wedding or funeral? We tried the captured Nazis and the Japanese in court, sucks that most were kangaroo courts, but they had their day in court, these people being killed by drones, are guilty and sentenced to death without it ever being known if they were the people we were "hunting" for and most of the people being killed aren't terrorists, they are women and children!
We have an obligation to question every action made by this and any other President, Senator, Congressman, Supreme Court judge, etc. We do NOT live in a dictatorship and therefore, we do NOT have to agree with everything that President Obama does or says! When I feel that President Obama is doing well, I will applaud him, but when I feel that he is doing something that I find questionable or unjustified, or beyond the scope of the office, I will criticize him. I don't care if that makes me a "Liberal" who is trying to "progess the liberal agenda", that is my G-Damned right as a U.S. citizen; that right was paid for by my family members in the American Revolution, the Civil War, WWI and WWII!
Here's a quote from Teddy Roosevelt that you should ponder...
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149
May 7, 1918
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