I have read and heard several things lately that are in favor of our President and many more that are seemingly against him with full force. Unfortunately,in both cases the race card always gets thrown up. I just wanted to speak up and say that it is time that we stop playing this color game and realize that regardless of color, religion and even political beliefs, President Obama is just that, our President and deserves the respect due him for that point alone. I feel ashamed at the message all of these disrespectful asses are sending to citizens but mostly to kids and to the leaders and citizens of other countries. The reasons that our country is falling apart boil down to greed and disrespect, period. We the American public elected President Obama to lead our country, whether you or I voted for him doesn't matter at this point, HE WON! We evidently have a society of bad sports who refuse to play fair and let the winner do his job and lead our team to victory. Is it because he's black? Sure, but more importantly it's because he is black and nice, kind and intelligent. I do not agree with all of his views, nor do I ever agree completely with anyone's, but I was raised to believe that in OUR country The President of the United States is "The main man" you afford him utmost respect regardless of his party, and now that also means regardless of his color. I hate the fact that racism has to even be an issue but reality is that it is, but I am happy to say that in my family we still respect the President, and we do not see him as The Black President only as Our President. I see what is going on amongst all of our leaders and I think all of them need to get back to their roots and think about these basic life lessons that hopefully they were taught, the ones about respect and sharing, caring and doing unto others as you want done unto you. Somewhere along the way, many of our leaders have forgotten their purpose and as citizens we have forgotten that it is our job to remind them. If by some odd chance a leader reads this I hope that he or she will stop and think about these things and maybe start by offering an apology to our President for the blatantly disrespectful behavior that is going on and maybe pass it on so that someone else will do the same. How can we teach our youth respect for others when the most important leader in their world, other than God of course, is being being disrespected in front of them and in front of the world? Why should the leaders of other countries respect the good ol' US of A when we don't respect our own country? Come on people face reality, as a country we have never had 100% agreement on any issues, much less any President so just agree to disagree and face the reality of issues not skin color or political party. We are supposed to be the UNITED States of America, we need to get a grip on the unification and start appreciating, respecting and giving our kids the same or better future that our parents gave us. Respect your friends, respect your families and for God's sake please respect OUR President!
