Why Not My President

 This is an extract from my other blog "Stronger Together after November 8, 2016". Republishing as its own post.

When George H. W. Bush won in 1988, we were sad our efforts to support Dukakis just dissolved. When George W. Bush won his "fake" election in 2000, we accepted it. Even though I didn't agree with him, he was our leader and representative to the world. When Obama became President, we were shocked to see the extreme right supporters denounce him at every turn. I remember Sarah Palin was bitching that Michelle Obama was telling everyone to eat healthy and government was too involved in everyone's lives. Ok sure.

During the debates, Trump spews out "your President" to Hillary. That was a jaw dropping moment. If Trump is an American, Obama is everyone’s president. The way that he’s disrespected Obama for the past 8 years should be liable for treason. The birther controversy makes Obama “an other” and throw in the implications he may be a Muslim and a radical Islamist terrorist supporter. Anyone remember how graciously John McCain stopped a woman from calling Obama an Arab terrorist during a townhall?Trump made this personal.

For 8 years I’ve been seeing the Fox News and comments on different online articles (I know, I know, don’t read the Comments.). Obama is blamed for everything and if he says the sky is blue, he’s just out there to be un-American. The type of stories out there were so one-sided it should’ve been illegal journalistically speaking. Obama said if he watched Fox News, he wouldn’t vote for himself either. So, the extreme right showed us this was an option to denounce the President as their own.

Mitch McConnell has already said that Hillary's administration would face obstructions as well. So, technically, the egos of these men would be much more stronger than the 240 year old history of this country and fundamental principles of checks and balances.
  

So I'm standing by "Not My President." It shocks me now that Trump is President Elect, the same people that abused Obama are calling for all of us to come together to support Trump. He needs to earn respect first. He needs to give respect first to others. In this country, we don’t give you respect automatically. He and Melania had more than a year to show themselves worthy of this role, and they didn't. They instead took the low road. I know "when they go low, we go high", but he's still not my president.