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In reply to the discussion: Presidents should be questioned and confronted, not idolized [View all]JustAnotherGen
(31,828 posts)But I regard President Obama no different than I did Bush. He's still a human being. He has a woman in his life he loves, and two daughters that adore him.
He's still a human being who deserves the same respect - human to human - that some here only reserve for Ms. Manning, Snowden, and Greenwald.
I'm a Unitarian who arrived there from a Judeo Christian religious belief system - the Christ argument is lost on me.
IF he existed - he was a fallible human being, born of two human beings, most likely married (rabbi after the wedding), and most likely had a child. He made mistakes, was not perfect by any means - but a few hundred years later caused a few people to be defiant and state - this trinity shit is for the birds. There is nothing supernatural in ths world.
It didn't cause those people (some of us 1600 years later that congregate in Unitarian fellowships around the world) who said the supernatural stuff is rejected - to lose sight of what good he did.
My point - in the rush to defy President Obama for his faults - lets make sure we don't DEhumanize him as many on the "Right" do. We are better than that. He's not a "lyin African". He's a human being.
And the really funny part about the stereotypes about Used Car Salesman and Witch Doctors and images of him as an Ape? He's not even paying attention. He's not that much older than me and he most likely spent time on the same playground I did - hearing the same things about his mother that I did. That's the beauty of being born bi-racial prior to 1980 - you get a really thick skin and dismiss those who dismiss you as beneath you. Self defense? Survival? Doesn't matter.
Throw the temper tantrum you want. He's not paying attention to it if it is coated in juvenile and childish name calling. I'd bet he stopped paying attention to that as long as its not directed to someone he loves by the time he got to middle school.