Again, the blog for today writes itself:
This is a verbatim post from a former shipmate:
“I offer no apology for what I am posting for this is truly
how I feel. Please know this is my opinion and not open for debate. If you
don't agree that's your prerogative but I will not be responding to any or all
comments. I have lived through six United States Presidents prior to our
current President Trump. In my lifetime, I have never seen or heard of a
President being scrutinized over every word he speaks, demeaned by the public
to the point of disgrace, slandered, ridiculed, insulted, lied to, threatened
with death, threatened by some to rape our First Lady, and have his children
also insulted and humiliated.
I am truly ashamed of the people of MY country. I am ashamed
of the ruthless, insufferable, cruel, Trump haters who have no morals, ethics
or values and the irresponsibility of the reporters who feel they have the
right to deliver personal opinions just to sway their audiences in a negative
direction even if there is no truth in their message. After every other
President was elected and took the oath of office, they were allowed to try to
serve this country without constant negative scrutiny from our news sources.
ALWAYS BEING PRESSURED while news sources search only for negative results from
our President will not serve the people of our country. Nor will it create
informed Americans. ENOUGH is ENOUGH is ENOUGH.”
“If you disagree, ignore this message. If you agree, copy
and paste this to your timeline and put your name under the last name:” (my note:
As if that will somehow shift the great sidereal drift of the Universe!”)
(What followed was a list of persons who agreed with the
screed)
I was going to ignore this, but you all know me better than
that. What stood out to me was the apparent amnesia exhibited by apparently
forgetting the massive anti-Nixon anti-war fervor of the early 70s, the earlier
anti LBJ demonstrations which resulted in his 1968 decision not to run. Even
more perplexing is the assertion that Trump alone has been subjected to personal
slanders involving his children, all adult, save one who has never been slandered, since most of us simply feel sorry for him.
Barack Obama’s vicious
treatment by Republicans, primarily heaped upon him with zero provocation other
than his racial background, however, gives the lie to that allegation as well: He
was been accused of being a "secret Muslim" and born in Kenya, of
being complicit with the Muslim Brotherhood, of wearing a ring bearing a secret
verse from the Quran, of having once been a Black Panther, of refusing to
recite the Pledge of Allegiance, of taking the oath of office on the Quran, of
seeking to confiscate all guns, of lying about just about everything he has
ever said, ranging from Benghazi to the Affordable Care Act to immigration, of
faking Osama bin Laden's death and of funding his campaigns with drug money.
More recently, even though Obama was out of office, a supporter of Florida Governor
elect DeSantis, Steven M. Alembik, a Republican activist and donor who has
contributed more than $20,000 to DeSantis’ campaigns, recently referred to
former President Obama as a “FUCKING MUSLIM NIGGER” on Twitter!
There is a long list of Republicans and conservative figures
who get caught out for staggeringly crass racial comments around Obama. To name
a few:
The head of the college Republicans at University of Texas
who tweeted: "My president is black, he snorts a lot of crack.
Holla."
Or the blogger for the conservative John Locke Foundation
who posted a picture of Obama in drag with a bucket of fried chicken on the
group's website.
Or the Orange County Republican official who circulated an
email that featured Obama as the child of chimpanzees.
Or the Republican city mayor in California who circulated an
email with a picture of the White House lawn turned into a watermelon patch.
And since we’re in the holidays, Obama’s White House never
stopped referring to the “White House Christmas Tree” as just that. The zombie claims
about the White House “holiday tree” was first proved wrong in 2009 but has
circulated online annually during the holiday season.
This is just a sampling, really, of the bogus claims that
have been made up about Obama over eight years. He also didn’t create the “Obamaphone,” call for a “new world order,” criminalize free speech, create a
“private army,” or attempt to declare martial law.
But what about Melania Trump’s whining that she’s been “bullied?” The fact that she has knowingly stayed with a
man who schtupped a porn star and paid her to be quiet, speaks volumes in
itself, but much of what has been leveled at her, some admittedly unfairly, is a
result of things her husband has said and done, excepting the red White House Christmas
trees. Imagine if Michelle Obama had made that choice! Anyway, when it comes to personal slurs, it isn’t even
close. Here are but a few of verbatim slurs levelled at Michelle Obama as First Lady:
She’s “strikingly
ungracious.” (Jim Geraghty, writing for National Review)
She doesn’t look like
a first lady (and she did push-ups). (Virginia voter Bobbie Lussier)
“She weighs too much
to care about health: “The problem is — and dare I say this — it doesn’t look
like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritional, dietary advice. And then we
hear that she’s out eating ribs at 1,500 calories a serving with 141 grams of
fat per serving, yeah it does — what do you mean, what do I mean?” (Rush
Limbaugh) As an example of how incredibly f***ed up this one is, at 5’11” and top
weight of 169, Michelle Obama has always been well within the “normal” body
mass index range, while the 222 lb. 5’9” Limbaugh is “clinically obese.”
She “needs to drop a few” pounds before she can be taken
seriously on the issue of nutrition. (Keith Ablow, prominent member of the Fox
News “Medical A-Team”)
She eats too much, as demonstrated by a cartoon of a chubby
Michelle chowing down on a burger and fries, telling a skinny Barack to “shut
up and pass the bacon!” (Big Government)
She “didn’t support dessert enough”, and she “cannot trust
parents to make decisions for their own children.” (Sarah Palin, wow, just wow.)
She “forced children in day care to be weighed”. (Urban
legend, debunked by Snopes)
She has “no business being involved” in what people eat.
(New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who knows some shit about eating)
She’s a “feminist nightmare” for focusing on her family.
(Michelle Cottle, writing in Politico)
She is “actually a man, and she murdered Joan Rivers to cover
it up.” (Alex Jones)
She’s not classy enough and is an “atrocity” as first lady:
“She makes a fool of herself — every time she comes on TV, I have to turn it
off. Laura Bush was so classy, and that’s what we really need again.” (Laurie
Boilard, quoted by Bloomberg Politics at a party for a Republican candidate’s
wife)
She dared to talk about the enslaved people who built the
White House.
She is an “ape in heels.” (Pamela Ramsey Taylor, director of
Clay County Development Corp. who later swore she was “not racist.”)
She has a “gorilla face.” (Patrick Rushing, mayor of Airway
Heights, Wash.)
She is a “poor gorilla” who “needs to focus on getting a
total makeover (especially the hair), instead of planning vacations.”
“She put her left elbow on a table once.” (Salon)
She ‘voluntarily
surrendered’ her law license in 1993. after a Federal Judge gave her the choice
between surrendering her license or standing trial for Insurance fraud!” (fraudulent
chain email)
“She’s President Obama’s “baby mama.” (Fox News)
She wore shorts. (oh my Gawd!)
Wow, and this guy thinks Melania has it bad?
But, what of the Obama daughters, surely, they can’t have
been criticized, right? Well, no, not right. Here are some samples from various
sources, some of them call ins to Fox News:
"I wonder if she applied as a muDslime..or a foreign
student..or just a Ni@@er." (on Malia’s Harvard acceptance)
"Hopefully she gets cancer/aids or one of those colored
diseases."
"Another academically challenged affirmative-action
parasite steals a place from a qualified White or Asian student."
"I'm sure she's (Sasha) being fed a stem of celery with
two grain muffins for lunch as accorded by her man-thing mother,
Sasquatch."
"Probably staying out for a year so she can help her
parents carry out the furniture and dinnerware when they leave the White
House,"
A satirical op-ed that appeared in the Chicago Tribune,
"Malia Obama's suspicious gap year," poked fun at the conservatives
who are slamming the young woman for taking a year off between high school and
college and are saying she didn't earn her spot at the prestigious university: In
fact, if family data has any meaning, her father’s ACT score is higher than the published results
for George Bush, Bill Clinton and LBJ, so take your best guess.
"It's a well-established fact that Malia is the first
child of a president to ever get into Harvard, a clear-cut sign that the fix is
in." (NO, actually, it isn’t either established or a fact) Factually, (remember
facts?) 22 presidential children have attended Harvard, but c'mon, are you
going to trust facts or disaffected bloggers?)"
"Malia will have her Harvard transcripts buried, just
like Chewbacca and the WH Muslim. As for the gap year, my guess is she will get
some heavy tutoring to try to match up at Harvard. If she looks like she won't
cut it, Malia goes somewhere outside the US to hide her further. Gap year,
sure.
By the way, ever hear either daughter ever talk? Can they?" one user
wrote.
"Doesn't have the grades, can't do the work, needs
extensive tutoring to have a chance at ANY college, unless Affirmative Action
and sealing her transcripts can be arranged (very likely!) Phony Birth
Certificate, sealed transcripts from Harvard AND Columbia, 'gap year', see a
pattern?" questioned another.
This is not the first time the conservative media has
attacked Malia Obama. Three years ago, when she was just 14, Fox News host
Andrea Tantaros called into question her sex life after Obama
stated he supported providing Plan B to girls as young as 15. "Are they
gonna put her on birth control?" Tantaros questioned. "Because he's
very concerned with contraceptives and pharmaceuticals that are going in the
mouths of everybody else's 15-year-old daughter."
"I don't think you would have ever seen the Bush
daughters in dresses that short," one article wrote. (these are the same “Bush girls” who slipped their security detail and were nabbed drinking in DC with fake ID, but darn those short dresses!)
"Class is
completely absent from this White House."
Malia Obama has faced backlash from the media since her
father first took office.
At just 11 years old, she was called "a typical
street whore" and "ghetto street trash" after wearing a shirt
with a peace sign on it. Note this is worse than anything levelled at Mrs.
Trump, and this was an 11-year-old.
Malia and Sasha Obama have both been the subject of multiple
fake news stories, including that Malia was "among 10 arrested in racist
Antifa attack" and that she was expelled from Harvard, and that Sasha
drove an expensive car into a lake.
In all fairness the Obama family is not the first Democratic
family in the White House to face harsh words from the (RE)public(ans). Rush Limbaugh previously called Chelsea
Clinton "a dog" when she was just 12 years old and described Amy Carter as
"the most unattractive presidential daughter in the history of this
country". However, the Obamas have faced an unprecedented slew of racism
thrown their way in addition to simply a mean-spirited media.
Hopefully this will put to bed the bullshit about all the undeserved
criticism of Trump and his trophy family. Can you even imagine if Obama had put
any family member, no matter how competent or remote on the Payroll, never mind
two?
Mindful of space and time requirements as well as the demonstrably
limited attention span of the original poster, here is what I wrote in FB
“And, XXXX, I have lived through 12 Presidents and counting.
Barack Obama was slandered for simply being President. His wife was caricatured
as evilly as anyone ever, his birth questioned and yet...he never hit back,
never slandered others, just did his job. See any difference? The issue here is
that what Trump gets he deserves because he sets himself up for it. The mystery
is why those who seem to adore him will never call him on it. The recent lies
re: military pay increases are classic examples. His supporters will just
overlook the lies.
Had Obama said exactly the same things word for word, the
Right would have been all over him. Anyone who's not blind, deaf and dumb in
their heart of hearts knows that's true. I understand why some folks. primarily
those with too little knowledge of US history and geopolitics, might have voted
for Trump based on the things he cleverly used as campaign issues, such as
implicit support of white supremacists (Steve Bannon?), fear mongering about a
"Threat " from immigrants (unfounded in every real study ever done),
claiming to be a business genius (obviously untrue, based on his multiple
bankruptcies (His father had none!),
Denying a pro-choice stance but having urged his first trophy wife to
abort the child who was Tiffany, Shamelessly sucking up to Evangelicals while
rarely having been in a church other than his three marriages, the last of
which he "fouled" by cheating with a porn star while wife #3 was
pregnant, and the list goes on.
Any or all of these “transgressions” would have had the
Right in arms had Barack Obama done them, but instead he raised his kids, loved and
respected his wife and did his job. So, XXXX if you are capable of any degree
whatsoever of objectivity, ask yourself why you still support Trump. Your side
slandered Obama with absolutely zero factual support. Hell, people spent
millions doing it and failed. Trump on the other hand is being held accountable
for things he has actually done, is doing and lying about it, and will do.
What
would your side have done if Obama had sucked up to Putin or the Saudis? Don't
bother to answer, I don't want or need any more lies. Nixon was a flawed man,
so was Kennedy, but Trump has taken it to a new level - lying and daring his
base to hold him accountable. Any ex-military person should hang their head if
they support him, and to answer the first implication of your post, yeah, FDR
and his wife took every bit as much flack during the early days of the New
Deal, and all he was doing was trying to dig the US out of a crippling
depression. This is why we teach American History in high school.
Unfortunately,
as George Santayana famously said, "Those who do not remember the past are
condemned to repeat it." Finally,
Santayana also said something which is absolutely and precisely applicable to Trump worshippers: "Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you
have forgotten your aim." Think about it!
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