Romney campaign co-chair and former New Hampshire Governor, John Sununu apologized Tuesday for an explosive statement where he said, “ I wish this president would learn how to be an American’. This following Sununu’s earlier interview with Fox News where he touches on Obama’s past marijuana experiences:
“He has no idea how the American system functions, and we shouldn’t be surprised about that, because he spent his early years in Hawaii smoking something, spent the next set of years in Indonesia, and when he came to the U.S. worked as a community organizer — which is a socialized structure — and then got into politics in Chicago. There has been no experience in his life in which he’s earned a private-sector paycheck that meant anything.”
According to his apology, he was only referring to Obama’s economic ideas:
“What I thought I said, but I guess I didn’t say, is the President has to learn the American formula for creating business,” said the Cuban-born Sununu.
Nevertheless, his statement set off a squall of debates about what it means to be AMERICAN and made me ponder…
-Does it mean using every loophole imaginable to hide and then stash your cash in offshore accounts OR being forthcoming and paying your taxes?
-Does it mean imploding American companies for profit, laying off workers and shipping their jobs overseas OR working hard for the American dream of owning a home or business and getting a pension?
-Does it mean BUYING your political interest OR simply voting for it?
-Does it mean being suspicious of anyone who’s non-white OR embracing all the different ethnicities of America’s rich culture?
And finally…
-Does it mean discrediting anyone who’s experimented with marijuana regardless of his or her accomplishments OR sparking up a big fatty of wacky tobacky, preparing to get lifted and eating an ENTIRE apple pie?
Come on, Mr. Sununu! What’s more AMERICAN than that?
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