Would Any Other President Do This?

Barack Obama has been gallivanting around the world, apologizing for the horrible, horrible country that elected him. He has apologized to Europe, the ‘Muslim world,’ China and I think Swaziland is next week. Now foreign leaders feel emboldened. They know that they can come to the United States and criticize the country.

Mexican President Filipe Calderon and Chairman O held a joint press conference at the White House today. At the event, President Calderon said, “such laws as the Arizona law, which is forcing our people to face discrimination.” The President of a foreign nation felt comfortable trashing the United States in front of the President of the United States, at the White House. Not to worry, surely Obama stood up for his country, right? Wrong. Instead, O piled on, saying “We’re examining any implications especially for civil rights because in the United States of America, no law abiding person — be they an American citizen, illegal immigrant, or a visitor or tourist from Mexico — should ever be subject to suspicion simply because of what they look like.”

There are so many things wrong with what Obama said it is difficult to know where to start. First, Barack Obama is the President of the United States of America. It is unprecedented and unacceptable for a sitting President to join a foreign leader in trashing the United States. Second, based on Obama’s comments I’d ask if he has even bothered to read the Arizona law, but I know the answer to that question. For the 1000th time, the law forbids “suspicion simply because of what [someone] looks like.” Third, by definition no ILLEGAL immigrant can be a “law abiding person,” hence the prefix “illegal.” There can be no doubt – President Obama hates America. Can you imagine any other president criticizing the United States and American citizens like Obama does on a regular basis?

…….besides Jimmy Carter.

California students sent home for being patriotic

From FOX News:

Administrators at a California high school sent five students home on Wednesday after they refused to remove their American flag T-shirts and bandannas — garments the school officials deemed “incendiary” on Cinco de Mayo.

The five teens were sitting at a table outside Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., on Wednesday morning when Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez asked two of them to remove their American flag bandannas, the Morgan Hill Times reported. The boys told the newspaper they complied, but were asked to accompany Rodriguez to the principal’s office.

The five students [...] were then told they must turn their T-shirts inside-out or be sent home, though it would not be considered a suspension. Rodriguez told the students he did not want any fights to break out between Mexican-American students celebrating their heritage and those wearing American flags.

The article also said that the kids were told they could wear their American flag t-shirts and bandannas any other day of the year, just not on a day that Mexicans are wanting to celebrate their heritage. The fact that the principal is of Hispanic descent makes this story a little more amusing as it’s generally white liberals who insist on injecting political correctness into any known crevice of the universe. However, how can you set a different standards for what’s allowed one day than you do for 364 other days?

If someone wants to go to school on the Fourth of July wearing a Saudi Flag wrapped around them, that’s absolutely fine (though I probably wouldn’t let them near the AV room or the Chemistry lab.) If someone wants to celebrate the Fourth of July by singing Rule Brittania and waving a Union Jack around, that’s completely their choice as all. The premise of this decision made by the school is that there is something about Mexican values and American values that are mutually exclusive. If that premise existed, there would be 100+ Mexicans at that school learning about American history and American values on a day-to-day basis.

Being patriotic is not offensive, so get stuffed Miguel.