The hits just keep on coming from POTUS. At a summit in the Philippines on Thursday, President Obama said that Syrian refugees aren’t more of a “threat” to the U.S. than average “tourists”:

“The idea that somehow they pose a more significant threat than all the tourists who pour into the United States every single day just doesn’t jive with reality. So my expectation is after the initial spasm of rhetoric, the people will settle down, take a look at the facts, and we’ll be able to proceed.”-Barack Obama

Obama also accused, (in typical BHO fashion and because he has to), that Republican presidential candidates were attempting to cause panic about the refugees and the closing of GITMO. He neglected to mention that more than one terror suspect in last weekend’s attack in Paris reportedly entered Europe by posing as a Syrian refugee with a fake Syrian Passport. He neglected to mention that 14 of the 9/11 hijackers came to us on tourist visas.

I admit that I am sympathetic to the plight of women, children and families who are persecuted and need a safe place. We are, after all The United States and we have a character to uphold. Not all of us cold and callous and oblivious to this plight. To close off to everyone does not seem right-but to open the floodgates without regard to our national security and our citizens and immigrants of all walks of life and religious backgrounds who are law-abiding does not seem like the best solution either. Panic is different than vigilance. To flippantly say that refugees (it does not matter from where) are “no less dangerous than tourists” seems a little, well…dumb when you consider the most recent attacks on Paris and the day of infamy that was 9/11. It is not about fearmongering, it’s about common sense, which has gone off the rails in some camps and defied all parameters of logic. It’s like this meme (which I have seen posted on walls of my ol’ college friends a bazillion times who don’t acknowledge the Christmas holiday because, Christianity is not the religion of hipsters in the Pacific Northwest):

While there is the “initial spasm” of rhetoric from the right…the “spasms” and politically-motivated rhetoric are also coming from the left tenfold. NOW, they acknowledge Christmas as a holiday worthy of being celebrated? (Are they for real? How convenient! Funny how that works, eh?) They are not blameless in creating this division, these “spasms” and they are not blameless in defying logic here. And as the added cherry on top, we have our leader of our country stating that any concerns about who may be mixed in with these well-meaning, persecuted Syrians and their families is just sheer paranoia and “rhetoric” coming from the right.

How’s about this, Mr. Obama? Let’s take the families, the women and children and put them up in our small towns, our cities, love on them and give them a start. You and Michelle can host a few young, 20-something year-old single males per week in a wing at The White House-you know-like exchange students (with no security, no armed guards because you obviously won’t need any) and take them along on your trips to Hawaii and Martha’s Vinyard, teach ’em golfing, take ’em to Disneyland and show the sights of D.C. You can even talk Islam to them and discuss your (romanticized) idealistic experiences of the “religion of peace” from Indonesia experiences. Perhaps you can host a concert in their honor featuring your BFFs, Beyonce and Jay-Z or have them help light up the White House (a-hem) CHRISTMAS Tree? National security? Nah! Let’s promote National Tourism! They’re just like “tourists”, after all!