Today is President Obama’s fiftieth birthday. Congratulations, sir!
I voted for the man and, though i haven’t always been happy with things he’s done since assuming office, I generally believe he’s making some sort of effort to get things done. I realize he can’t please everybody and so don’t feel betrayed when he doesn’t always do things that I might like. Would that everyone else with half a brain would do the same.
These Birthers never bothered me, because in the long run, they lost. As I knew they would. They demanded the long form birth certificate for so long(I might be wrong, but i don’t remember any other candidate ever being asked for such). When they finally got it, their reaction was just as I thought it would be. Forgery! They are not about the truth anyway.
What they never mentioned, whether by abject ignorance or just plain willfulness, was that it would not have mattered whether Obama was actually born in this country or not. His mother was American and that made Obama American. That is the law. If the place of birth mattered, McCain was born in Panama. On an American base to be sure, but the way these Birthers operated, it shouldn’t matter.
What it all boiled down to, and what these Birthers would never admit, was that it was because Obama was black. Pure and simple.
End of rant.
Once again, Happy Birthday, Mr. President!
And for purposes of honesty, I’ve never met Obama, though my sister and one of her grandsons have.
It’s kinda weird to have a president who is younger than me. This is the first time it’s happened. Feels like a milestone of some kind. As for Obama, I feel pretty much as you do. At least he seems to give something of a damn for folks who aren’t rich, even if he has generally been too ineffective in many things. But it can’t be easy having to deal with groups as irrational as the “birthers,” and, apparently, the new Tea-party Republicans.
I voted for him too, and will do so again in a minute. His intelligence, clam and level-headedness have been impressive in the dog-and-pony show (or is that Donkey-and-Elephant show?) that was the last month in Congress. Often it seems no one else cares about serving the people, the voters. Happy Birthday indeed, I hope he has many, many more.
Me, too. I think, given what he has had to work with, he has done a decent job. He’s an honorable man that has taken much abuse. I have never been ashamed of him, which I can’t say often about elected officials. Could he be better? Sure if he had a Democratic House. And if the Republicans weren’t so far to the right. At one time. Obama would have seemed like a moderate Republican–like Lindsey or Hatfield of Rockefeller. How far we have tipped the earth. Happy Birthday, Mr President.
The Onion had a nice article about the President’s birthday.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-turns-50-despite-republican-opposition,21061/