He was the 44th president of The United States, a role that he occupied with wisdom and dignity.
When you compare President Obama with the 45th/47th president, the contrast is quite remarkable. The current president usually emphasises Mr Obama's middle name whenever he mentions him. Thus it is rarely simply "Barack Obama", it's "Barack Hussein Obama" as though to imply that second name is loaded with evidence of foreignness or otherness. It is an incredibly rude thing to do - the sort of thing you expect adolescent bully boys to say.
The name "Hussein" was given to baby Barack by his father who had converted to Islam some years before the birth. By the way, there are around 4.5 million Muslims in the USA and their numbers once included the great Muhammad Ali. Although Barack Obama is not and never has been a Muslim, shouldn't the President of the USA be respectful of other people's faiths and differences anyway? I think so.
As day by day the world reads or listens to the ignorant, often cruel and fallacious words of the current president, it's nice to be reminded that presidents don't have to be like that or talk like that. Here's a character reference for Barack Obama in four quotations...
from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/CitBNja
