Bill O’Reilly was heard on his show recently parroting the all-too-familiar adage about always “respecting the office of the President even if you don’t necessarily respect the president.” The discussion was about Obama’s heated reply to the outbursts of one Texas-based TV reporter who couldn’t wait to speak until the question-and-answer period of the meeting took place. Politico has labeled the incident as – ‘The outburst heard round the world.’
Insult was added to injury when, in the same week as the famous outburst, two other Obama appointees also inserted their worst into the public record by saying not just the ridiculous, but what to some would qualify as downright undignified and disrespectful to the Congress, the Constitution, and virtually every American.
Former New Jersey EPA head and Obama appointee to the nation’s Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, has raised the question of John Q. Public’s ability to read above the fifth grade level. She said “In accordance with the law, we moved forward with sensible, cost effective steps at the federal level on climate, using the Clean Air Act. And I would have a second sentence — see, I can’t write headlines! But it would be something like, ‘The progress at state and local levels, combined with the federal level, does not obviate the need’ — you can’t use obviate, it’s above fifth-grade level!”
This week, and for the past eighteen months, Attorney General Eric Holder has repelled the Congressional Committee with a barrage of obfuscation and smokescreens and then warned the Congress, in a defiantly undignified flip off to that entire body, that he has “no intention of resigning.” In the minds of Americans who now see the Attorney General as a smear against justice are thoughts that Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry had no chance to tell the same Congressional Committee that he had “no intention of dying.”
Nobody really likes a complainer, especially when it is endless chronic dissatisfaction without any credence or foundation. Mr. Obama’s critics have long since risen above the low place of the inveterate complainer. The endless list of indignities and disrespect to American traditions, laws, and conventions is too much a part of the Obama legacy to hide, quash, or deny.
The short list includes disrespect for DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), private sector businesses and entrepreneurs, and religion (attacks on Catholics). It also includes attacks on dignity and American protocol (bowing to a Saudi king); a blast against doctors, insurance companies, and the public with a burgeoning healthcare bill most don’t want; the social shock of being whacked with a giant club labeled “the gay agenda”; and last but not least, the circumventing of the Congress with endless executive orders (900 to date).
Now the Congress and lawful legislative process has been ignored for a move that no American left with a mere pint of blood and a single brain cell does not see as a political move to bolster a shaky re-election bid. The announcement to give amnesty to illegal immigrants is a serious and disrespectful blow to those trying to enter the country legally. It is insulting to states with overburdened welfare and education systems and their respective governors. Why haven’t we considered breaking open all our jails and prisons to find those offenders who have only one non-violent felony on their records and giving our own citizens some of that easy amnesty?
We heard Mr. Obama swear he would defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic at his inauguration. But we also know that to constantly cast all that is foreign, against all that is domestic, is to create a new enemy to the constitution. It is not a new enemy, but one that has always been known and named as ‘the enemy within.’
J. J. Jackson of ‘The Land of the Free’ website said “I hear people in certain sectors of the economy, like the Natural Gas industry, glow about how Obama is ‘for’ them because he is against their competitors (i.e. coal and oil). Most often, I hear about how Obama is ‘for’ the little guy because he is out to sock it to the vile rich. Yet, when you actually look at what Obama does, you see that he is not really ‘for’ any one of these people. As I said, he is just out ‘for’ himself.”
Buying voting blocs through executive orders and promising happier days in Xanadu is the kind of callous disrespect that has been ongoing, unabated, in this administration for nearly four years. It would be easy to say that Mr. Obama is taking on the pathology of the megalomaniac, but pragmatism and reason call for an answer to the malady rather than just railing against it. To get to the nature of the festering, we need to discover the root of the problem and work from that point outward. That would bring us full circle to the question of respecting the office, even if we don’t have so much respect for the office holder. How far can we stretch this bad philosophy to cover a failing and amateurish presidency?
In the New International Version of the Bible, we see that Paul addressed the subject of respect for leaders in part when he said, “Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.” (Ro 13: 7) Christian ministers like to emphasize the “respect” angle of this passage but all too often ignore the very important phrase “Give to everyone what you owe them.”
When we owe something, it is safe to assume that we received something (a product, a service, a loan, a license, or a passage or something of value.) This is why most Americans will tell you that they usually don’t load respect on anyone unless it has been earned. Here is where we see that regardless of how many times O’Reilly raises the ‘respect for the office’ thing, and regardless of Lisa Jackson’s allusion to a nearly illiterate citizenry, we all know what we have seen, read, and witnessed. The bottom line is that we are not getting much respect, and very few Americans are willing to accept a bill from the Obama White House marked “accounts receivable.”
We are only a few months away from our chance to deal with the kind of disrespect we have endured. It is that revered and oft-visited quiet and private little space we call the voting booth. It is there we will voice our refusal to endure any more disrespect and the dissolution of what may be left to our dignity as a nation.
This writer is a firm believer that Mr. Obama has exhibited many behaviors that seem foreign to the American way of life and traditions. The sum total of those behaviors indicates to me that something in his experience or his personality is missing. I long ago came to the conclusion that he, Mr. Obama, simply does not love this country the way our previous presidents have. Adding to that is a streak of hidden motives and a plethora of lies that are now a matter of public record. The words of author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the author of Crime and Punishment, seem to speak directly to my view of Mr. Obama’s condition.
In his novel The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky penned these telling words: “The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
My only question is: why doesn’t someone who Mr. Obama really respects tell these telling words to the President for the rest of us.
We will always respect the office of the president, but on this two way street in these days, we see that all men are not created equal. We see the president’s respect for the environmentalists, the gays, and the immigrants. But this is a nation of 350 million, and from the learned statesmen to those struggling to read at a fifth grade level, we don’t feel or see the respect for our citizens.
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Most Americans support and resect the office of the President of the United States but do not support or respect Obama.
I just posted a comment on another site citing the same thing about Bill O'Reilly. I do watch him and agree with about 85 percent of what he says. But I don't think this president or any of his adm deserve my respect. I respect people when respect is deserved. It also goes both ways, then the president and his adm should also respect the will of the American people.
After decades of disrespect FROM the White House, I will give respect only when, and IF, I receive it first.
I dont respect the SOB.
Not AWOL–look up the acronym for why; 0bama never respected America (nor its people) anymore than Vidkun Quisling respected Norway!
Precisely. One cannot be Absent WithOut Leave from where one never was in the first place. Obama has never had any respect for the American people because he has never had any respect for America itself.
Mr Barack Obama is the quintessential prevaricator in chief.
If only he were only that. Unfortunately he is far worse than that…he is the quintessential domestic enemy, the enemy within.
First of all, I wish that picture and the others would self-destruct.
Secondly, how on earth can anybody respect "that office" with what it has in it?? Repulsive, anti-GOD, I don't think so. GOD and HIS SON are the most important things in my life and he hates them.!!!
I truly adore the following two paragraphs that I extracted from this article. Is the word "extracted" above the fifth grade level? We'd better ask Jeff Foxworthy.
"In his novel The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky penned these telling words: “The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
My only question is: why doesn’t someone who Mr. Obama really respects tell these telling words to the President for the rest of us."
Presidents Truman and Eisenhower WERE NOT racists. Truman integrated the military and Eisenhower integrated the schools.
Sadly, our current President IS a racist!
I taught my sons that “respect is EARNED, not FREELY GIVEN”! And, as in regards to “respecting the President”, I will, WHEN I HAVE A PRESIDENT!!!!! As of now, I have no President, and have not had for going on 4 years now. This INSULT IN OFFICE IS NOT A “President”, he is AN ENEMY WITHIN! The reason he declared “executive privilage” is because he KNEW, or perhaps helped PLAN this fiasco, this MURDERING RAMPAGE that resulted in the deaths of both Brian Terry, AND Jamie Zapata! He knows, he knew, he is as GUILTY AS Holder in this disaster, for he IS A DISASTER THAT IS HAPPENING AND HAS BEEN HAPPENING NOW FOR ALMOST 4 YEARS!!! Holder should be tried, and sentenced, to life in prison, the worst we have, even a Mexican Jail would be proper JUSTICE FOR ONE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SO MANY MEXICAN DEATHS! And I beleive that the President of Mexico would agree! It is HIS citizens who have suffered also, at the hands and willful deceit of this black HITLER! No CHIN HITLER. Holder has no concience and is as much of a sociopath as Hitler ever was, and he would murder anyone who got in his way to fame and control. Obama is the same, he has no concience, no moral charactor, no scruples, no intelligence, not one thing to give him any reason for any respect at all from the American People, or, the AMERICAN PATRIOTS WHO PAY HIS UNDESERVED SALERY! Nor, for his never ending trips and vacations, and golf games! Nor, for the shoes on the Bubble Butt’s feet! They both DESPICE AMERICA AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! Where do those two come under any heading of “respectable” at all???!!!!!! Two of the worst ENEMIES that America has ever SUFFERED UNDER! Throw in Holder and the rest, and America has problems untold! Worse than the National Debt, and it grows worse with each passing moment! Respect, O’Rielly? I’ll respect them when they are out of our Capitol, and out of our White House, and ON A BOAT HEADED FOR AFRICA!!!! She is ASHAMED OF AMERICA AND CALLS OUR FLAG, OLD GLORY, A “FU#(%&^@!! Flag”!!!!!! “all this for a F(&%#)!!! FLAG”!!! she says? Yes, I have more RESPECT FOR OLD GLORY THAN I EVER DID OR WILL HAVE FOR TWO USELESS ANTI Americans, and I have only disgust and utter hatred for ANYONE WHO IS THE ENEMY OF MY COUNTRY AND WHO APOLOGIZES TO THE SAME MURDERERS WHO MURDERED NOT ONLY BRIAN TERRY AND JAMIE ZAPATA, BUT 3000 PEOPLE ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001!!!!!!!!!!!! As I hated those mu SLIMES on that day, SO I HAVE THE SAME HATRED FOR ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD BRING THE SAME DESTRUCTION DOWN UPON MY PEOPLE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO ARE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND WHOSE CHILDREN, HUSBANDS AND FATHERS, AND ALL WHO HAVE DIED FOR THIS NATION AND THAT FLAG, OLD GLORY!!! GOD HAVE MERCY UPON YOU, BECAUSE THE TRUE AMERICANS WILL NEVER HAVE!!!! AND RESPECT? EARN IT, LEAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Moderation again? What for? For saying what the rest think, and are too afraid, or “politically correct” TO say? Or, is it just that I quoted moooshellack and said what she said about our flag? She said it, I only said what SHE said, and I didn’t even spell the word out! But anyone who watches the news or O’Reily, or Sean Hannity saw and heard the same thing. And, it is public knowledge that she has always hated our country and her people. And that she has no respect for our flag. And if we cannot speak the truth, or what we feel as Americans anymore, then why even bother at all to support those who say they do? I have not used any profane language, or as little as possible in my posts, or comments for a good long while, but I have seen those words used time and again, by our so called “president” and “first lady”, whom I refer to as the First Insult of The United States of America. And other descriptions, and only because she offends me deeply, and has no regard nor respect for me, or my fellow Americans, nor, FOR THE FLAG AND ALL IT STANDS FOR! And if I am angry, and offended and insulted beyond all imagination, then it is only because of the way I, and the rest of my nation and her people, have been treated. We have been disrespected, and called names upon names! Moderation? I have to say, I held back much more than I actually wrote! And, beleive me, it is not easy to do, when I and my fellow Patriots are so insulted each and everyday, by these two of such low moral fiber, and who are allowed to disrespect us and our Constitution and Constitutional rights by everyone! Every one of those in Congress and elsewhere, who pretend to be working for us and to be defending us and our American born rights by law of the Constitution! why are THEY NOT MODERATED!? They should not only be MODERATED, but FIRED! And most of them, SENT TO JAIL FOR TREASON! We who love America, are being stifled each day and each time we speak out against the outrages that this sorry administration commit against us. Respect for this freak in office? I think not! Not until he respects us, and our nation, and more than that, GOD ALMIGHTY WHO GAVE US THIS NATION AND HAS BLESSED US SO MANY TIMES, UNTIL THIS EVIL WAS ALLOWED TO INFECT AMERICA WITH HIS DISEASES WHICH NUMBER IN THE HUNDREDS! I apologize if I said anything that is untrue, or not so well deserved that someone else should have said it first!!!!!
Thank goodness these hypocrites do not like us…..WE DON'T LIKE YOU ALL EITHER. WHY DON'T YOU GO WHERE THEY DO LIKE YOU, PERHAPS CUBA, COMMUNIST CHINA, RUSSIA OR BETTER YET TO JAIL!