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an example for the right wing
Published Nov. 1, 2009Views: 921
Mr. Ralph Peters is a columist for the New York Post. He is one of my favorites, he has also written a few books that I have read as well. Mr. Peters served as an enlisted soldier and then as an officer in the United States Army for 2 decades.
Mr. Peter's represents the type of guy the right wing in our country needs to listen too. There is no question which way he leans politicaly, but he will give credit where credit is due, like the column I posted a link to at the bottom of this blog. He criticizes Mr. Obama most of the time, notice I said MOST of the time. He thinks for himself, he isn't a blind follower of the right. Here Mr. Obama went out of his way to pay his respects to fallen American soldiers, he didn't use it as a photo op, it seems to me that this was heart felt, and probably a gut wrenching experience for him. It had to be, I applaud the president for this. It shines a new light on him. The man is a PATRIOT, weather those of us on the right agree with his policies or not, he Loves America. He just has a different vision of how things should be. We need to stop all of the rhetoric, all of the propaganda, and talk to each other like human beings. Stop disagreeing with everything because of who said it, and not what was said. The left did this to Bush his entire time in office, they skewered him every chance they got, it made me sick. However I don't know whats worse, watching the left smear Mr. Bush, or watching the people that I thought were above that sort of tactic, turn and do the exact same thing out of some twisted sense of revenge. WE ARE ALL AMERICAN'S, we are all in the same boat, if it sinks it won't matter what side of the political line you were on, we all go down together. I used to think the majority of the right was above this sort of thing. Now....well prove me wrong.
I am not saying we need to agree with everything Mr. Obama says, but we do need to support him as our countries president, show him respect, and voice our opinion in a way that sounds like we are using REASON not rhetoric to make our point. We need to think about what the man says or does, before we decide to just disagree with it. Let's be the people we always claim to be. Our state motto say's it best "to be, rather than to seem".
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/obama_honors_fallen_americans_at_MOIlnaX5TvmT0kFa1QefTJ
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/opinion/01winfrey.html?_r=1
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November 1, 2009 5:02 a.m.
November 1, 2009 6:32 a.m.
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November 1, 2009 6:46 a.m.
He gets all the respect he earns.
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November 1, 2009 6:50 a.m.
"The images and the sentiment of the president’s five-hour trip to Delaware were intended by the White House to convey to the nation that Mr. Obama was not making his Afghanistan decision lightly or in haste."
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/10/30/did-white-house-pressure-nyt-into-changing-dover-story/
Obama Visits Air Base to Honor Returning Dead, By JEFF ZELENY, Published October 29, 2009
"A small contingent of reporters and photographers was quietly called to follow him to Dover"
Obama honors fallen Americans at Dover, By BEN FELLER, Associated Press
"The wife of Army Pfc. Brian Bates, who died Tuesday in Afghanistan, said she changed her mind and decided against allowing coverage after learning by phone around 11 p.m. EDT Wednesday that Obama would attend."
"We didn't need to broadcast it to the world."
Was this a photo op? You decide.
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November 1, 2009 7:12 a.m.
I've always liked out motto
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November 1, 2009 7:20 a.m.
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November 1, 2009 7:25 a.m.
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November 1, 2009 7:36 a.m.
As I always say, "Watch what they do and ignore what they say". There words are meant to shape your perception, not to improve the reality.
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November 1, 2009 7:39 a.m.
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