Last week I was angry, this week I’ve graduated to flat-out disgusted and ashamed by an administration — no, a president — who consistently betrays the American people who voted him in not once, but twice.
Instead of uniting the country in this time of senseless tragedy, President Obama directed his ire at the Republican party for failing to ban guns, for using Twitter, for employing offensive terminology, and for any connection to the National Rifle Association (true he didn’t mention any names, but we all know what he was talking about).
“We hear language that singles out immigrants and suggests entire religious communities are complicit in violence,” he said.
Does he truly believe that using the term “radicalized Islamic terrorist” causes normal human beings to turn into psychopaths intent on killing people?
As usual, President Obama used a tragedy to promote his agenda. His speech, as in the past, only served to politicize, polarize, and create dissension.
“Are we going to start treating all Muslim-Americans differently? Are we going to start subjecting them to special surveillance? Are we going to start discriminating against them because of their faith? It won’t make us more safe. It will make us less safe,” he said.
Here was the president’s opportunity to show his condemnation of radicalized Islamic terrorists — specifically Omar Mateen, who was, after all, the one that decided to massacre 49 individuals in Florida.
While on his jihadist rampage, Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State — not America. Mateen blamed America for bombing his parents’ native Afghanistan. Wasn’t he an American citizen?
Did President Obama think Omar Mateen was allying himself with Uncle Sam and the good old United States of America? Marteen wasn’t pledging allegiance to the flag — for which we stand, one nation under god — but to a rogue band of totalitarian, psychotic, murderous brutes known as radicalized Islamic terrorists.
There, I said it — and if it offends anyone, you can stick it where the sun don’t shine.
Not for Nuthin,™ President Obama has spent his two terms apologizing for the United States. He has done little to promote our safety, prosperity, and well-being. And when it comes to keeping our shores and borders protected, he has failed. Maybe President Obama should spend the remainder of his term apologizing to us.
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