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Thoughts from Melissa Emery at CNS News:
I recently received an email from
an old friend who lives in a very blue state exclaiming that Trump was “not his
president.”
. . .
I tried not to respond in anger,
but merely with regret to learn that Trump was not “his” president, since wages
were up, taxes were down, the stock market was up, and over 2 million new jobs
had been created. Black and Latino unemployment were at new all-time lows. Were
these not things that liberals cared about anymore? But, perhaps, I suggested a
bit snarkily, these bits of news had not appeared in the New York Times. I
doubt that I’ll ever hear from him again.
As the days went by, his comment
that Trump was not his president kept rolling around in my head. I wanted to
ask him, who IS your president? Are you operating now without a president? Is
your state no longer part of the Union? And how does not having the United
States’ president as your president work for you? Do you still get all your
Social Security payments and Medicare benefits? Can you still sit in your
lovely cabin by a lake and pontificate about how much smarter you are than
people who voted for Mr. Trump?
. . .
I
didn’t like Obama. I wanted him and his crew out of there as soon as possible.
But it never occurred to me to say he was not my president. He was president of
the United States, for better or for worse. We cannot continue to be united if
we decide which laws to obey and which presidents to acknowledge. If you don’t
like Trump, work to elect someone you do like next time. . . .
Mark Steyn posted a musical medley in honor of President’s
Day starting with this introduction:
Happy
Presidents Day to all our American readers - and yes, I know it's grotesque to
have to put Jimmy Carter and Franklin Pierce up there with Washington and
Lincoln, but don't blame me . . .
Presidents’ Day is an American
holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February. Originally established in
1885 in recognition of President George Washington, it is still officially
called “Washington’s Birthday” by the federal government. Traditionally
celebrated on February 22—Washington’s actual day of birth—the holiday became
popularly known as Presidents’ Day after it was moved as part of 1971’s Uniform
Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create more three-day weekends for the
nation’s workers. While several states still have individual holidays honoring
the birthdays of Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other figures, Presidents’ Day
is now popularly viewed as a day to celebrate all U.S. presidents past and
present.
Cleveland Tea Party salutes George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln, and Donald J. Trump.
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