America
has always had enemies and most likely always will. Some say they hate us for our freedom and
others for our arrogance but one thing most of our enemies have in common is
their secret desire to visit and even live here.
Of course I am not speaking of mindless evil minded
terrorists who care only about killing but rather those with defined
differences in ideologies. Some are
jealous of our success and frustrated with their own government.
For example the leadership of Iran
is an enemy who funds terrorists and insurgents around the world in an effort to
harm America
and our allies. If you were to analyze
their motives you might come away shaking your head at the stupidity of it all. But the citizens of that repressed society
actually admire America!
In Pakistan
the leaders have banned Valentine’s Day saying it promotes vulgarity among the
masses. Yet they don’t seem to have any
problem with suicide bombings.
Creating tension for the sake of creating tension is a form
of insanity. Fox news and their puppets on
the right have long been proponents of doing just that.
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| President Barack Obama |
And when a nation or group hates America they generally point to our
leader or leaders as the focal point of their anger.
In that respect President Obama is no different from his
predecessors and he definitely has his share of haters around the world. But he holds the dubious distinction of having
more enemies to deal with than any American President before him. And that’s because so many of these haters
ARE Americans.
I am not just talking about a simple political partisanship
hate used to stoke a voter turnout fire but rather a deep seated intense
possibly racially motivated and totally irrational violent hate that is so unfounded and unreasonable
as to border on insanity. And that
border is as thin as it is porous.
Take the Republican Party in Congress and the first words
out of the mouth of Senator Mitch McConnell after Mr. Obama became President
Obama. “Our number one job is to make
Obama a one term President.” The stance
morphed a bit in 2012 to, “Our number one job is to get Obama out of office.”
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Self Admitted Obstructionist
Undeserving of the title of
Senator Mitch McConnell |
One certainly could have hoped that the Republican Party
would have made fixing the economy and helping Americans their top priority but
then one would have been terribly wrong!
And every step of the way since making that nearly
terrorist-like statement aimed at dismissing what the majority of voters indicated
they wanted McConnell’s party has acted irrationally. They voted against their own bills when and
if the President came on board. They
back tracked on every piece of legislation they had originally proposed once
the President agreed with them.
In a sort of comic ‘Bizarro World’ fashion Mr. Obama would
have had to say he was against something in order to get it enacted! And when he moved closer to their stance in
negotiations they slithered further away to the right until they couldn't get
much farther lest they fall off the face of the Earth. And still they would not compromise. In fact many in their camp consider compromise
to be a curse word avoided at all costs.
And with the silent filibuster many of these cowardly lions
of the Republican Party hid behind a loophole in the Senate regulations to stop
his every attempt at moving America
forward. Mr. Obama has had the least
amount of appointees approved by Congress since time began and had to suffer
through a record number of filibusters aimed at creating a stagnation nation.
The Party of NO has even had the nerve to stop him from
appointing his own cabinet members! What’s
next, telling him who he may have dinner with?
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Never Elected to anything
Grover Norquist |
Right wing lunatic Grover Norquist, who has never been
elected by any human to any office, has had a hold on the Republican Party for
years. He actually stated that his party
of choice should allow the President a tiny increase on our ‘debt ceiling’
every 3 months and let him continue raising it ONLY IF HE BEHAVES! Who the hell is this little weasel to demand
the duly elected leader of the country behave?
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| Useless despicable turd |
And speaking of hate mongering weasels, how about a many times failed billionaire with horrendous hair constantly seeking publicity who demands to see proof that Mr. Obama is who he says he is?
But he and his ilk are not alone and the message they
promote is repeated across the under educated world of Fox News network viewers
and readers.
Many Americans who tend to live in this ‘bubble’ are unaware
of the terrible tactics these so called leaders of their party were and are pulling. They became disillusioned with the President
and turned against him. And as any
self-fulfilling prophesy will do this fueled the feverish fires of the Republican
Party further. They saw their evil
tactics being rewarded so they doubled down their efforts to ruin the economy
and keep Americans unemployed or underemployed at best.
But the President was reelected. And for the second time he garnered a majority
of the popular vote. And Congress remains mired in a record low approval rating.
So one would guess they would change
their tactics. And once again one would
be wrong.
Some of the Republican Party have taken to calling for less
stupidity in their ranks realizing the public perception is finally taking a
turn toward reality. It may be too
little too late.
Growing up I was told that when you hate someone it only
hurts you. That may be true but when the ‘you’ that’s doing the hating happens
to be an entire political party there is bound to be a great deal of collateral
damage!
Our two political parties will always have ideological
differences and neither side will ever be 100% right. That’s why we need at least parties with
clearly defined messages and beliefs.
But we also need and deserve representatives who know the meaning of the
words compromise and especially governance!
And all sides must understand that elections have meanings
and consequences!
It’s time for the hating of this American born non-Muslim
President to end and for constructive governing to begin!
