Recently, President Obama told a TV interviewer that his job as President was more than just getting the national policy choices right. His overarching duty, he explained, is to tell the American people a story, to be inspirational, so that as a united country, going through difficult economic times, we will ban together, be optimistic and confident that indeed tomoorow will be better than today. And for once, the President and I are in complete agreement. Americans deeply want and need to see our President knowledgeable and concerned about important issues that affect our daily lives, in both specific objective ways - high gas prices - and in more symbolic ways - three plus years and no trial or even any accountabily for the Fort Hood jihadist murderer, and the President remains totally uninvolved in this open wound, bleeding away the spirit of patriotic Americans wondering why the Major continues to this day to be paid his full Army salary while flaunting daily his continuing violent, murderous hatred of us all.
Here is a President, so powerful, so concerned about injustice and unfairness, that with the simple stroke of a pen, he nullifies a one hundred year old federal statute, thereby granting amnesty to more than one million illegal aliens who are in-country and below the age of 30 years old. Such a sweeping and bold executive action reflects a real and strong commitment by this President to make the nation more just and compassionate.
Is it, therefore, too much to ask this same President to direct his Army subordinates to dishonorably discharge Major Hasan, and have his murder trial begin in his (and our) lifetime?
That not so bold or sweeping exective action would demonstrate the President's commitment to our military families, and the entire nation as he attacked us all in 2009, who suffer each and every day thinking about this disgraceful miscarriage of justice, with Major Hasan remaining on acitve duty status, while his injured victims in some cases have been declared unfit for duty in our armed forces and mustered out to fend for themselves at the local VA office.
I cannot count on one hand, even my left one, how many speeches the President and the First Lady have given before military family audiences, thanking these patriots for their service to our nation, and how in recognition of their many and great sacrifices for our safety and freedom, the President will never abandon or stop working for the causes of military family welfare. Well, guess what Mr. President, I suggest you stop these self aggrandising speeches for as long as it takes for you to sign an Executive Order giving Major Hasan the boot from his six figure annual taxpayer salary.
