on the one thing on which we should all agree....
even a misguided, bleeding heart, Obama/Hillary loving Libtard like me totally get, accept and even endorse people who oppose Hillary or, at the very least, don’t support Hillary…she has a certain set of values, ideas, plans and intentions and it’s natural that not everyone goes along….we’re Americans, we don’t ever all agree on ANYTHING….you can’t get three people at your workplace to agree on where to go to lunch….
and, of course, there’s that honesty and trustworthiness thing, although, all night long tonight, I’m going to challenge you to offer me one politician you can hold up as a poster child for honesty and trust…..
I accept, even endorse, people who might even passionately disagree with the proposals, plans and intentions of Hillary Clinton…and, again, there’s that honesty and trustworthiness thing….but, again, I’ll be challenging you….
What I DON’T accept and what I DON’T endorse is the hatred…the angry, vicious, nasty, frankly embarrassing behavior of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of so called God fearing, patriotic Americans…the kind of behavior that goes miles and miles past any reasonable definition of appropriate and legitimate disagreement…..AND here’s something else I don’t accept or endorse….that same kind of hatred, anger, viciousness that’s been tar and feathering Barack and Michelle Obama for the past seven and half years….you don’t think he’s done a good job, that’s your call…you think he’s done a poor job, a bad job, a REALLY bad job, that’s your call…but the petty and mean and vicious and nasty?...that’s not a fair and reasonable assessment of job performance….it’s just petty and mean and vicious and nasty and, frankly,
the meme that has Dog SHT coming out of Hillary’s mouth every time it opens….the profane, obscene, offensive variations on the name Barack Obama…the pictures of Michelle Obama making her look like an ugly, repulsive ape……THIS is your idea of free speech and expression and your contribution to America? WOW….you are some kind of patriot, you are……
and if all you’ve got to counter is something inane like “well, Obama has ruined this nation….he’s got us on the road to destruction….and Hillary, well, that bitch is just more of the same” and all that other uninformed and uneducated mouthing off that haters do, let me clue you into something…I love the history of this country and I read A LOT about the history of this country and …..if you read that history you’ll find that, historically, those who history has proven possessed, or possess, genuine insight and vision tend to invoke one of two reactions in the masses:
either Admiration and appreciation from those who feel confident enough in themselves to recognize the benefit of listening to and considering the viewpoint of others....
or hatred and character assassination from those whose own insecurities and lack of education or sophistication or even self-esteem trigger the need to attack..
the most passionately admired leaders in history were among the most passionately hated and vilified, as well...trust me when I tell you that’s no coincidence…
leaders come and go....nothing changes until humanity matures enough to disagree without demonizing or denigrating.......nothing.......
And here’s an odd, or interesting, observation….for all of the ragging that Donald Trump takes for his behavior, nobody really seems to HATE the guy…..ridicule him? mock him? even fear what he represents? but HATE? not so much….oh, the hate is out there and pops up here and there, but I haven’t seen a fraction of the memes or posts or comments and letters to the editor, etc talking HATRED about Donald that are flowing out there on Hillary and Barack…..
Occams Razor is a philosophical principle that, put simply, states that the simplest answer is usually the correct answer….and Sherlock Holmes said somewhere along the way that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth….
Well, I’ve been thinking a lot about all this hatred and applying those principles and here’s where I am right at this moment….I realize that out of all the people who might stir up powerful emotions in us who either are President, have BEEN president or want to BE president, that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have only ONE thing each in their resume that ALL of the others DON’T have….Hillary is a woman…and Barack is black……and given what Occam and Holmes have to say about it, I can’t find anything else to explain this level of HATRED or see it as being caused by anything other than….Sexism….and Racism…and keep in mind, I’m not talking about disagreement, opposition, unwillingness to support, endorse and/or vote for somebody…I’m talking about HATRED…stupid, ignorant, blind, embarrassing, dangerous HATRED….
on taking responsibility being like rubber and glue...sticks somewhere else as it bounces off you...
I've made no secret that one of the problems I have with Trump is that he is NEVER WRONG ABOUT or TO BLAME for ANYTHING….and that’s simply not a good quality in anybody, let alone somebody who wants to be the leader of a nation……..but this business of batting away the blame has become business as usual….
Scott Baio tweeted out an image of Hillary Clinton surrounded by the offensive word “cunt.” And then immediately after being tapped as a Trump speaker, he posted it again.
“This may be the best meme out there,” Scott Baio quipped while posting an image of Hillary Clinton giving a speech in which her head fully blocked out the letter “o” in the word “Count” on the banner behind her, leaving it to spell out the gender slur “cunt” behind her.
the very first post in the comment thread accompanying this FB post read as follows:
(Name Withheld As A Courtesy) While Scott is wrong in calling her this foul name, Hillary has brought this on herself with all the lies she has told, and you all know she lied. I don't believe in using foul language to describe anyone as it is just downright disrespectful. Maybe if Hillary stopped blaming others for her wrongdoings, she would not be referred to such an ugly name. Trump/Pence 2016!
so...if Hillary would just stop lying, it wouldn't be necessary for brave Americans like Scott Baio to refer to her as a cunt......hmmm....and, you know, if only that nice girl down the street hadn't worn that skirt so short, she probably wouldn't have gotten herself raped....
on the only irrefutably fair question to be asked in this entire crap pile of a campaign...
hatred, pettiness, hostilities, even (especially) partisan politics aside...from the NATO matter to encouraging Russia to hack into American information to talking about changing or doing away with the Geneva Convention to the myriad various and sundry obvious inappropriate moves and remarks, does it honestly not occur to those who continue to support Donald Trump that, everything else OFF the table, the man simply doesn't know what he's doing and is already dramatically in over his head?.....
on campaign fatigue...why we catch it...and what we need to do to cure it...
modern communications technology, social media and the onset of political campaigns as much as eighteen months out have made the traditional Presidential election process obsolete...with another three months yet to endure, it's a safe bet that almost everyone who has looked up from their phones long enough to give a s*** has already, even long ago, made up their minds and nothing said or done from here on out is going to change them....so, let's spare ourselves the grief and exhaustion of any more bluster, bitching, bantering and blathering and hold the election Tuesday.....
further "campaigning" is going to accomplish nothing more than further angering us, dividing us and making us look even more ridiculous in the global view than we already do......
let's just shelve being "stronger together" and "making America great again" and let's Put America Out Of Its Misery.......
crowning thy good / with brotherhood / from sea to shining sea is optional.....
on being all stocked up on that cheapest of human qualities...
Last week, right here on this show, our first show upon returning from an eight month hiatus, I said something, on the air, that a lot of people who have listened to me for a while were probably surprised to hear. I said that I believe, at least at this point in the process, that Donald Trump is going to be elected President of the United States. My reasons are numerous and there’s plenty of time between now and November for me to share them, so I won’t do all that now. And, with any kind of luck, I won’t have to because, hopefully, between now and November, I’ll feel confident enough that it’s not going to happen to change my mind.
I mention all of this by way of sharing that tonight with both the Republican and Democratic conventions completed and Trump and Clinton now officially the two major party nominees, I have a clear perspective or, at the very least, a troublesome gut feeling of what this election is really all about…more on that in a minute….
I started noticing presidential elections around 1960…I was just a little kid then, but there was something kind of exciting about the atmosphere of that election year. TV played a big part for the first time and both Kennedy and Nixon had a certain style that was interesting, even to an elementary school aged kid…do the quick math and that means that I’ve been around to witness, in one way or another, fourteen different presidential elections. Lots of up years, lots of down years, lots of national crisis years and lots of international crisis years No presidential election in this country is without its moments of rough and tumble, even knock down drag out between the candidates and, also, between all of us every day folks who talk and debate and argue at the dinner table or the water cooler and then line up to pull the lever on Election Day. But believe me, as Tim Kaine pointed out to us that
Donald likes to say alot, believe me when I tell you that I have never before, in any of the fourteen previous presidential campaigns I’ve witnessed, seen the kind of vicious, hateful, bigoted, prejudiced, angry, nasty, hostile, mean spirited
Wednesday night Barack Obama and Joe Biden talked of being optimistic about the future of this country…..
Hillary took the same approach Thursday night…our best days are ahead of us…America IS great…etcetera etcetera…
Underneath my pretty well known and documented satirical, sardonic, even sometimes sarcastic exterior, I really do love apple pie and the flag and Uncle Sam and I really do want to feel optimistic about this nation’s future…believe it or not, I’m hoping every day that what I think is in danger of happening in this country WONT, in the end, turn out to be what happens in this country.
But I’m not finding it easy to be optimistic. And that’s because, as I said earlier, after a lot of watching and listening and thinking and talking about the election so far and, after witnessing fourteen other presidential elections, I have a clear perspective or, at the very least, a troublesome gut feeling of what this election is really all about
It’s about the politics of fear.
Never, in my life time, have two opposing sides been so clearly obvious or clearly defined….and never has the outcome of an election mattered as much as does this one….
there are fifteen Sundays between tonight and the election….and for the next fifteen weeks, I’m going to be talking about the election…I look forward to you talking about it with me….we’re not going to talk about it all the time…even good and evil step outside and take a smoke break every now and then….AND for those of you who start to go cross eyed listening to talk radio that goes on and on and on and on and on about one subject, you’re in luck….my ADD will pretty much prevent THAT from happening…and, despite what CNN and FOX and MSNBC would have you believe, there actually ARE other things going on in the world, in our country and right here in Kent and Sussex Counties besides the battle for the future of mankind between Donald and Hillary…and we’ll talk about them….and because every middle and high school teacher I ever had will testify under oath that I could never resist being a wisenheimer in class, even, no, especially, at the most inappropriate moments, you’ll find that this show will have its share of goofy and funny and fun and, yes, wisenheimer….and I invite you to share your goofy and funny with all of us…laughter is the best medicine…and there’s not a prescription in the world big enough to completely cure all the aches and pains WE got goin on these days….
And because I believe the right thing to do for someone with a microphone is to be up front and respect the audience by not trying to be all things to all listeners, I’m being up front with you right now by telling you that I sincerely believe that electing Donald Trump President would be a mistake on a scale of mistakes that this nation has never, ever seen.
That said, here’s where we go from here…conversation, communication, debate, discussion, dissention, opposition, even argument….in the very best tradition of good people respecting each other enough to speak their minds but always, ALWAYS keeping in mind an old fisherman’s prayer:
O Lord, thy sea is so great…and my boat is so small…..
and always, ALWAYS keeping in mind one little revision I think essential…..
thy sea IS so great…but it’s not MY boat…it’s OUR boat…and we are ALL in it…..
so bring me your conversation, your discussion, your opposition, even your argument to maybe find some answers….and, to paraphrase the old joke, let’s use the Christopher Columbus method….and sail around until we find some…
but viciousness and hatred?
sell them somewhere else….I’m not buying.
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