President Obama has declared May 1st. as “Loyalty Day”. I say it is a good thing.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

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[font color=red]FYI this is Posted in the Barack Obama Group[/font color=red]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/04/30/presidential-proclamation-loyalty-day-2013

Many are painting it in a nasty way, but people need to think. Loyalty is something we are missing, that is loyalty to each other. We have become so me, me, me that we forgot that this is a country of WE. What is good for our neighbor is good for us. That is the backbone of Unions. It is the fabric of Communities. It is an idea that has been disappearing.

The loyalty to the idea that was forged in three very important documents has been disappearing through time. It was not an idea of loyalty to government or a monarch, but to each other. Over the roughly 237 years, the idea of this loyalty has been under attack by a small number that would like to be the ruling class. In the last 15 years, the idea has been put to the test and is been made black and blue in the fight.

This proclamation made by President Obama is a good thing. We have a Labor Day already, but a day to remember that without loyalty to each other, we have no Unions, we have no workers right, is something we need. We need to remember the idea of this country is one of a loyalty to one another and that loyalty can and will bring the Unions back, force the top 1% to pay their fair share, and get us back on top.

So, Thank You Mr. President for helping us to remember this and place a day to help us always to remember!

[freshwest]

1. Expressing the deepest ideals. It's why you are one of my favorite posters, LFR. Thanks.

[marsis]

3. Typical for this President,

all show and no go. Do something to show loyalty, your cheap words mean nothing to me.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

4. You do realise you are post in the Barack Obama Group?

This is a group that backs President Obama and supports his policy's.

[sheshe2]

5. May I remind you that you are posting in The Barack Obama Group

This is a group, not a forum. Groups often serve as safe havens for members who share similar interests and viewpoints. Individuals who post messages contrary to a particular group's stated purpose can be excluded from posting in that group. For detailed information about this group and its purpose

Take your comments to GD!

[Jamaal510]

12. I'm sorry,

but I find it disgusting how people like you just sit around and basically pretend that he can get anything done without Congress's help, as if we elected some king. Republicans have blocked him on virtually EVERYTHING, whether it's basic gun control legislation, the public option, the Jobs Bill, or higher tax revenue from top income earners. No president has ever experienced this type of obstruction from the opposing party, not even LBJ (who had Democratic majorities and liberal Republicans working with him). No president before him had the opposing party conspiring on the night of his inauguration to block whatever he wants.

Also it should be noted that despite all the criticism from so-called "progressives", he has accomplished a lot despite GOP obstruction and is a major improvement from his predecessor. Unemployment and the deficit have both lowered under his watch, he has drawn down both wars and kept us safe from any major attacks, he ended DADT and was the 1st-ever president to endorse marriage equality (which in itself has helped many gays out of the closet and spark the debate), he bailed out the auto industry, he signed the Fair Pay Act, he extended tax cuts for low-income Americans, and he delivered on his promise to hunt down and kill OBL. Meanwhile, our friends on the other side of the aisle have been busy not only blocking him, but making it more difficult for minorities and the poor to vote, intruding in the private lives of women and gays, denying people health care, cutting public education, and war-mongering once again with Syria.

To claim that Obama is not "doing something to show loyalty" and is just offering "cheap words" shows ignorance on your part about how government really works and what has happened in Washington since 2009.

[marsis]

14. Of course I'd reply

to that but I am sorry I didn't realize that there was even an Obama adoration page on DU.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[Number23]

15. The whole point of Jamal's excellent post just whizzed over your head, huh?

But don't worry. The "Obama adoration page" comeback was spectacular and covered your cluelessness very nicely.

[sheshe2]

6. This is The Barack Obama Group!

Not a forum!

Take it to GD.

[OKNancy]

7. It was just a "form letter" that people are making a big deal about

when it is really meaningless. The stupid thing has been with us since 1921. Typical of the hyperventilation that goes on here lately.
In my family it was always "Law Day" ( Dad was a lawyer)

[Cha]

8. In Hawai'i it's Lei Day.

Thanks for the explanation, OKNancy.

[Cha]

9. This can't be bad..

Let us mark this day by pressing on in the march toward lasting freedom and true equality, grateful for the precious rights and responsibilities entrusted to each of us by our forebears.

thanks Lady Freedom Returns

[LeftInTX]

10. People sure are tied up in knots over nothing.

I don't get it.
Every other president since 1958.....

[DevonRex]

13. I hope they celebrated it LOUDLY at Ft. Devens.

That's where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is in jail. Seems to me he became a citizen just so he'd have the rights of a citizen when he slaughtered Americans on their own soil. During services in a Mosque less than TWO months after Dzhokhar took the citizenship oath, he and Tamerlan interrupted the Imam when he said they should all celebrate Independence Day and Thanksgiving. Later on Tamerlan did the same thing about MLK.

Yeah. I really hope Dzhokhar got a huge reminder of Loyalty Day on May 1st. Flags everywhere! The National Anthem in all it's glory in stereo at dawn. Yes sir. Yankee Doodle Dandy piped in for fun.

I was at Ft. Devens for an MI class once. Nice place. Loved being able to go into Boston.