Monday, August 17, 2009

THREATS ON OBAMA'S LIFE.

ABC News report this morning, August 17, 2009, that President Obama's life is in danger makes very disturbing reading, and there is no doubt that some strict precautions have been put in place by the Secret Service and other salient authorities to deal with the matter without delay.

The report stems from hate groups' reaction to the President's Health Care reform proposals, which are under discussion in town halls and various places across the country. They have appeared at some of these meetings, holding nefarious placards, and voicing vitriolic assertions and making objectionable statements, out in public. In one such instance, a man openly displayed a gun to indicate his intentions of doing harm to the President, the report said.

It would be insane to say that hate groups have no place in America today, judging from the fact that, the political landscape of the nation has dramatically changed for an African-American to become President. Any such group must suppress whatever feelings it had to give the political phase the country was in a chance to develop to its fullest extent. It was not an experiment, but a realistic cultural change that America should go through to fulfill what had been its philosophy from the very beginning of its inception, that "all men are created equal", and that, regardless of race, that proposition should stand, no matter what.

Obama won the 2008 Presidential Election; and he had every right, therefore, to remain in power whether his opponents liked it or not. It should be so until the next election when votes would be cast again to either re-elect him or somebody else.

Rush Limbaugh and other people like him, who were pouring fuel on a very important issue, as health care reform proposals, was, should be ashamed of themselves. The hatred that they were dishing out on Obama would surely have a racial backlash, which would not be in the best interest of the nation, as it always had been the case. Unfavorable assertions from them would come back to haunt them, as it was for the racist of all time, George Wallace, the erstwhile Alabama Governor. He ate his own vomit before he died.

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