Nevertheless, our president is not popular among the masses in a racist nation. The answer is transparent. In a society that does not separate church and state, even though it professes that wisdom, there will always be religious racism in the name of "God."
World leaders in their slot of mass popularity during their times include the following men who proclaimed:
"By defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the world of the Lord. . . . To bring about [nothing but pure Anglo-Saxon heritage] means anything less than sinning against the will of the Eternal Creator."–Adolph Hitler, a baptized Christian, author of Mein Kampf.
"You ask who I am who speaks this to you . . . . If you had not sinned God would not have sent me hither to punish you."–Genghis Khan, absolutist, Shamatic warmonger who slew 30,000 Muslims to carry out the imagined, phantom words of his god. And it was Emperor Constantine who saw a sun beam in the sky and thought it was God leading him to victory.
Other fundamentalists after the devastating September 11, 2001 attack on America proclaimed "God was punishing gays and sinners." President George W. Bush fantasized God telling him to attack oil-rich Iraq, that had nothing to do with the catastrophe.
On the other hand, President James Madison wrote, "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the endless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries"–including the 100 year war among others.
Years ago the Ford Foundation produced the film, "Race, the Power of Illusion." Religion-concocted race has been used to justify American inequities and polices from the beginning of politics and how the idea of "whiteness" was documented into the US Constitution and laws that sanctify race and evangelism in America.
President Obama has done a tremendous amount of good, even setting a record of more attempts of negotiation between Hebrew officials and Iranian leaders more than any other president; has been up against a Pentagon and Congress champing for more soldiers to die with boots on their feet; has promoted a green environment; has improved the economy from what it was during the previous administration; and even was successful in ridding the world against the most corrupt leaders and bomb makers–without declaring a war. On his time gas prices have also dropped for a four-year period.
It's military power that carpet bombs Syria and Iraq, against his wishes. But since he is the first US American African president who doesn't want war and instead stresses allied co-operation in solving militant problems, his realistic foreign policy has brought mass opposition in a war economy land. The burden of aggression is impossible for anyone to succeed when it comes to international peace–until the government does not take the lead in toxic munition production and export weapons that boomerang to the producers, wherever they are. It's old-fashioned revenge, a warped record and CD that's played over and over again.
If only the leaders of the future will do even better in advocating liberty, life and happiness, the original dream of founding father Thomas Paine.
Mame,
helenesmith1,blog spot.com
