Consistently Inconsistent

By Dustin Meadows
Rotunda ReporterAhh Mr. Crump we meet again, and yet again you contradict your party.

In your latest article you state that it isn't right for Americans to hate or bash President-elect Barack Obama. My question is why not? It's free speech! My how we forget so quickly once the new moon rises and the tide changes.

For the last eight years the Democrats' main political strategy has been to bash, and hate anything President Bush has done domestically and around the globe. You preach bipartisan politics but it seems your party has different views than that of your own. Case and point Sen. Joe Lieberman, who during the Presidential race endorsed Sen. John McCain, a fellow moderate. Now it seems that Sen. Lieberman upon further review committed a party atrocity in supporting his longtime friend and will lose his Committee chair! Oh such a despicable act; I mean, it's not like he got a blow job in the White House or anything. (Sorry, didn't mean to bring up old wounds.)

Now Mr. Crump I love my country too much to ever move from it. That's a fact, and to those who do, screw 'em, we don't want you here anyways. I have too much respect for the Presidency to wish any wrongdoing unto that person. But, Mr. Crump, it is my right as an American to voice my displeasure with the selection, is it not? How many times did we hear Democrats and fellow Americans complain about President Bush? There was no outcry then, no one saying you can't do that, it'll split the country up.

Although African-American, Barack Obama doesn't merit a pass on this regard. Believe it or not, America, you can legally question his policies at home and abroad, you can dislike him based on those merits as have many people about Bush. You can call him stupid and an idiot as did every liberal about Bush, IT'S NOT RACISM! Although Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the NAACP would have you believe it is, it isn't, it's your Constitutional right to voice your opinion. My question is, Mr. Crump, if this were Harry Reid and people were saying they hated him would you make such an outcry about it? What if it were John Kerry, would you tell people to lay off, that doing so is anti-American? I doubt it, it wouldn't be an issue, but because it's Barack Obama we can't say these things because he is black, that's the automatic assumption. Now I tell you this, Mr. Crump, on my honor as a Marine, if he were white, purple and doo-doo sprinkled I wouldn't have voted for Barack Obama. I urge you, Mr. Crump, to delegate to your party that playing the race card with Barack Obama every five minutes is more of a threat of tearing this country apart more so than partisan politics inside the beltway.

It is our job as Americans, Mr. Crump, to ask ourselves does Obama really stand for "change" or "hope" more so than any one of us in America? In four years there will still be taxes, no universal health care, and Democrats and Republicans will still be partisan toward one another. Sadly these three things were implemented by our forefathers, going back to the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. It is our culture to do so, it's part of being an American; you can't change that. Obama will find out soon enough, as did President Nixon, that getting America out of war is a very tough job. With Obama's 16-month draw down plan, I beg him to remember when Saigon fell, 11 million people died because we cut and ran. Think about that, President-elect.

We are, Mr. Crump, hopefully beginning anew. Yes, a historic election has occurred, and yes I hope Obama speaks like Clinton and governs like Reagan. (Yet in this election I believe the American people forgot that one man does not make America. No President has, or ever will; it is the American people that make America and her Presidents great. I believe we lost sight of that in this election, because if we continue to put our faith in men we will surely be let down.