TO: Letter to the Editor, Concerned Citizens, President Obama Home Page, and Internet
I wish local Brigadier General Tolbert (USAF Retired) that consistently criticizes President Obama in the Valdosta Daily Times would have spoken out against any Executive Commander-In-Chief before retiring.
A commissioned officers should not wait until they retire to exercise their constitutional rights to condemn a president publicly. They must understand that when truth comes into the minds of those who seek truth all falsehood must vanish and that falsehood is forever a vanishing thing.
Much like slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, denying blacks their rights to vote etc., eat at public lunch counters, use public bathrooms, attend church without having a white person present, denied the right to own land, and called three fifths of a human being simply for being born Black.
While history proved that those on the wrong side of history have vanished and are only footnotes on the pages of history. Our good general seem to be pumping himself up for some public office in the future by consistently criticizing our 44th President as no other president in the history of our nation.
All American presidents (43) have been White Men and Blacks always voted for White men without the criticism. Even though many of them promoted, and benefited from slavery, segregation, discrimination, fathered black children, labeled them as three fifths of a human being, never supported or acknowledged the Black children they produced. But Blacks took care of these children without criticizing White Fathers in the press, and around the world.
There may be a lesson to be learned from this without citizens consistently condemning our 44th President. When he is accepted as a breath of fresh air around the world. Moreover, it seems that commissioned officers insignias no longer shine as bright as they once did, and it seems that America has a long, long ways to go before becoming what she proclaims in foreign countries. We can do better.
GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity
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Valdosta Daily Times Editorial: B.Gen Tolbert in Valdosta, GA, and President Barack Obama
Submitted by gbrhynes007-2 on Sun, 2009-05-31 23:34.I am responding to a Letter To the Editor in the Valdosta Daily Times on May 31, 2009 by B.General W.Troy Tolbert highlighting the negatives of our 44th President of the United States. The column was entitled “you gotta be kiddin" me!”
I will not rewrite his noted link of criticism since this has become a routine practice for many who have never criticized an Executive Commander-In Chief to the extent of our 44th President of the United States of America.
Recently I had the pleasure of speaking and listening to a local 92-year-old female citizen here in Valdosta, Georgia. As she explained that Barack Obama is being criticized more than any president she had ever seen in her life, and still he continues to smile as if he knows something that others cannot seem to understand or comprehend.
She said she voted for Obama but he did not win Georgia, and that Georgia has always been last. As a retired military veteran and small peon in comparison to Air Force Retired B.Gen, Tolbert of Valdosta, and Marine Corps Colonel Gene McDaniel who passed the negative link to General Tolbert.
However, my black words on white paper is no less important than the many negatives published on a daily basis in our country criticizing President Obama. Moreover I agree with the 92-year-old female that few if any high-ranking military officials have ever criticized an American President like they are criticizing President Barack Obama around the world. And he has not even been in office six months.
It is indeed, amazing for our top-level retired military personnel to speak out against our Executive-Commander-In-Chief of our United States Armed Forces in time of war so repeatedly. This seems below the call of duty.
So why are they speaking out now about wasting our tax dollars, but said little to nothing while wearing their highly respected uniforms while on active duty?
Apparently, God purposely allowed President Barack Obama to win the 2008 Presidential Election so the world could see how much progress we have made since the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties.
We are NOW showing the world that there is always something wrong with certain Americans. Either they are too hipped or not hipped enough. The wife is too ugly or too pretty, the man is too handsome or not handsome enough, too weak or too strong, too white or too Black, he has the wrong name or undeserving of his claim to fame, but there is always something wrong, too fat, or too skinny, hair too curly, or too straight, too rich or too poor, too tall or too short, not qualified for the job, or over qualified for the job, too experienced or not experienced enough, his plane is too small or too large, but there is always something wrong.
If President Obama came from the north, he should have came from the south. If he is a Christian, he should have been a Muslim, if he is a Jew, he should have been something else, but just ask Hannity, and he will tell you. That there is always something wrong with certain Americans.
You are either with us; or against us, and if the Messiah Jesus returned today! He would be either too early, or too late. But it’s always something wrong in America with our 44th President---but the American people have spoken concerning who they wish to represent them.
Therefore in spite of what FOX News, Headline News, and others who seem to be blaming God for not making Barack Obama perfect, let us who truly love our beloved nation give thanks to God for having a voice through Obama. For his courage and leadership in calling for all Gods children to come together as brothers and sisters. Whereby they can at least talk to each other and feel each other’s pain, hopefully without the shedding of blood, and the lost of human lives.
Moreover we should be thankful for President Barack Obama for having the greatest message, for the problems plaguing our beloved nation and world. So Mr. Obama keep smiling, keep the faith and always pray that God will make you perfect as he made Sean Hannity and those who have crowned themselves seemingly, as a god beside God--- in their own righteousness.
Hopefully, they won’t WHITEOUT this golden opportunity to try and resolve the many problems that have plagued our beloved nation and world----for too long now.
So Mr. President, keep your humanity, God bless America, and everybody else.
GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity
I will not rewrite his noted link of criticism since this has become a routine practice for many who have never criticized an Executive Commander-In Chief to the extent of our 44th President of the United States of America.
Recently I had the pleasure of speaking and listening to a local 92-year-old female citizen here in Valdosta, Georgia. As she explained that Barack Obama is being criticized more than any president she had ever seen in her life, and still he continues to smile as if he knows something that others cannot seem to understand or comprehend.
She said she voted for Obama but he did not win Georgia, and that Georgia has always been last. As a retired military veteran and small peon in comparison to Air Force Retired B.Gen, Tolbert of Valdosta, and Marine Corps Colonel Gene McDaniel who passed the negative link to General Tolbert.
However, my black words on white paper is no less important than the many negatives published on a daily basis in our country criticizing President Obama. Moreover I agree with the 92-year-old female that few if any high-ranking military officials have ever criticized an American President like they are criticizing President Barack Obama around the world. And he has not even been in office six months.
It is indeed, amazing for our top-level retired military personnel to speak out against our Executive-Commander-In-Chief of our United States Armed Forces in time of war so repeatedly. This seems below the call of duty.
So why are they speaking out now about wasting our tax dollars, but said little to nothing while wearing their highly respected uniforms while on active duty?
Apparently, God purposely allowed President Barack Obama to win the 2008 Presidential Election so the world could see how much progress we have made since the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties.
We are NOW showing the world that there is always something wrong with certain Americans. Either they are too hipped or not hipped enough. The wife is too ugly or too pretty, the man is too handsome or not handsome enough, too weak or too strong, too white or too Black, he has the wrong name or undeserving of his claim to fame, but there is always something wrong, too fat, or too skinny, hair too curly, or too straight, too rich or too poor, too tall or too short, not qualified for the job, or over qualified for the job, too experienced or not experienced enough, his plane is too small or too large, but there is always something wrong.
If President Obama came from the north, he should have came from the south. If he is a Christian, he should have been a Muslim, if he is a Jew, he should have been something else, but just ask Hannity, and he will tell you. That there is always something wrong with certain Americans.
You are either with us; or against us, and if the Messiah Jesus returned today! He would be either too early, or too late. But it’s always something wrong in America with our 44th President---but the American people have spoken concerning who they wish to represent them.
Therefore in spite of what FOX News, Headline News, and others who seem to be blaming God for not making Barack Obama perfect, let us who truly love our beloved nation give thanks to God for having a voice through Obama. For his courage and leadership in calling for all Gods children to come together as brothers and sisters. Whereby they can at least talk to each other and feel each other’s pain, hopefully without the shedding of blood, and the lost of human lives.
Moreover we should be thankful for President Barack Obama for having the greatest message, for the problems plaguing our beloved nation and world. So Mr. Obama keep smiling, keep the faith and always pray that God will make you perfect as he made Sean Hannity and those who have crowned themselves seemingly, as a god beside God--- in their own righteousness.
Hopefully, they won’t WHITEOUT this golden opportunity to try and resolve the many problems that have plagued our beloved nation and world----for too long now.
So Mr. President, keep your humanity, God bless America, and everybody else.
GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity
