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These are the words of a real president--maybe the last president of the United States as the United States was meant to be.
https://www.vox.com/world/2016/12/6/13860054/obama-final-speech-military
We are a nation that won world wars without grabbing the resources of those we defeated; we helped them rebuild. We didnt hold on to territory, other than the cemeteries where we buried our dead. Our greatest generation fought and bled and died to build an international order of laws and institutions that could preserve the peace, extend prosperity, and promote cooperation among nations. And for all of its imperfections, we depend on that international order to defend our freedom.
In other words, we are a nation that at our best has been defined by hope and not fear. A country that went through the crucible of a civil war to offer a new birth of freedom. That stormed the beaches of Normandy, climbed the beaches of Iwo Jima, that saw ordinary people mobilize to extend the meaning of civil rights. Thats who we are; thats what makes us stronger than any act of terror.
Remember that history. Remember what that flag stands for. For we depend on you the heirs to that legacy, our men and women in uniform and the citizens who support you. To carry forward what is best in us, that commitment to a common creed. The confidence that right makes might, not the other way around.
Thats how we can sustain this long struggle. Thats how well protect our country. Thats how well protect our constitution against all threats, foreign and domestic.
BigmanPigman
(51,674 posts)Protect our constitution against all threats, foreign and domestic.
We have a definite domestic threat in the W House and his enablers in Congress.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)bdamomma
(63,974 posts)this POS is destroying this country but not our will due to inside and outside forces who hate democracies.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Trump supporters. Oh, and add a few Russian hackers - Putin and Trump and Hitler would have been good buddies.
Never again. Not in my name.
I may be old, but I will fight.
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duforsure
(11,885 posts)And any republican staying in this party supporting this human tragedy , instead of switching parties to help the Democrats fight against this are cowards and need to all be voted out of office for this. Period. This can't be how America is defined, and it can't continue any longer. It needs to be stopped NOW.
renate
(13,776 posts)bdamomma
(63,974 posts)bullies never win.