Finally, he speaks

TVWhen Obama was first elected president, I and many people I know quickly grew frustrated that he was too nice.

He seemed to be of the erroneous opinion that if he played the middle of the road and compromised, his opposition would meet him half way.

It didn’t happen, and it seemed the president was the only one not seeing that.

Then, regardless what he did, and regardless what the facts were, the so called liberal media crawled in bed with the likes of Fox news ignoring the facts and figures, but telling an interesting story not necessarily based on facts.

It seemed that when he could have corrected the misinformation about such things as the stimulus, employment figures, the deficit, and our leaving Iraq, President Obama had just let the media tell the public whatever they chose, true or not, and gave the GOP free reign to write its own story.

The Republicans and the media seemed to have taken a strong grasp of the discourse without being corrected with facts and history.

In spite of what they know to be true, Republican talking points such as the president has done nothing to reduce the national debt, has run it up higher than any other president, has taken more vacations than any previous president, and has overused the power of the executive order, no one seems to be bothered correcting those falsehoods

So, what was my surprise when a reporter asked a question based on what people just accepted as the way things were, and Republicans have pushed, but that a true journalist acknowledging facts would not have asked because it was based on a media urban legend. And it was obvious, minus the eye rolling and the obviously unspoken question, “What the hell are you thinking?” the president was tired of this and finally said it like it was, but, perhaps a little too late.

The reporter asked him if he regretted not leaving troops in Iraq.

This conveniently ignored that U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement that was signed by President Bush agreeing that all combat troops would leave Iraq in December of 2011, and that Maliki would not agree to President Obama’s wanting to keep residual troops in Iraq because Iraq was a sovereign country and the Iraqi government wanted the troops gone.

The president calmly explained:
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And the Iraqi government, based on its political considerations, in part because Iraqis were tired of a U.S. occupation, declined to provide us those assurances. And on that basis, we left. We had offered to leave additional troops. So when you hear people say, do you regret, Mr. President, not leaving more troops, that presupposes that I would have overridden this sovereign government that we had turned the keys back over to and said, you know what, you’re democratic, you’re sovereign, except if I decide that it’s good for you to keep 10,000 or 15,000 or 25,000 Marines in your country, you don’t have a choice — which would have kind of run contrary to the entire argument we were making about turning over the country back to Iraqis, an argument not just made by me, but made by the previous administration.
So let’s just be clear: The reason that we did not have a follow-on force in Iraq was because the Iraqis were — a majority of Iraqis did not want U.S. troops there, and politically they could not pass the kind of laws that would be required to protect our troops in Iraq”.

Finally he spoke up.

He continued:
“Having said all that, if in fact the Iraqi government behaved the way it did over the last five, six years, where it failed to pass legislation that would reincorporate Sunnis and give them a sense of ownership; if it had targeted certain Sunni leaders and jailed them; if it had alienated some of the Sunni tribes that we had brought back in during the so-called Awakening that helped us turn the tide in 2006 — if they had done all those things and we had had troops there, the country wouldn’t be holding together either. The only difference would be we’d have a bunch of troops on the ground that would be vulnerable. And however many troops we had, we would have to now be reinforcing, I’d have to be protecting them, and we’d have a much bigger job. And probably, we would end up having to go up again in terms of the number of grounds troops to make sure that those forces were not vulnerable.

So that entire analysis is bogus and is wrong. But it gets frequently peddled around here by folks who oftentimes are trying to defend previous policies that they themselves made”.

He anticipated potential concerns on Afghanistan, and explain the reality that the media and the Republicans will probably ignore in favor of the fantasies that rile the readers, the viewers, and the voters.

“Going forward with respect to Afghanistan, we are leaving the follow-on force there. I think the lesson for Afghanistan is not the fact that we’ve got a follow-on force that will be capable of training and supporting Afghan security efforts. I think the real lesson in Afghanistan is that if factions in a country after a long period of civil war do not find a way to come up with a political accommodation; if they take maximalist positions and their attitude is, I want 100 percent of what I want and the other side gets nothing, then the center doesn’t hold.

And the good news is, is that in part thanks to the excellent work of John Kerry and others, we now are seeing the two candidates in the recent presidential election start coming together and agreeing not only to move forward on the audit to be able to finally certify a winner in the election, but also the kinds of political accommodations that are going to be required to keep democracy moving.

So that’s a real lesson I think for Afghanistan coming out of Iraq is, if you want this thing to work, then whether it’s different ethnicities, different religions, different regions, they’ve got to accommodate each other, otherwise you start tipping back into old patterns of violence. And it doesn’t matter how many U.S. troops are there — if that happens, you end up having a mess”.

Of course, it would be nice if when the Republicans and media bury this, the administration will keep repeating it loudly and often, gaining control of the discourse.

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He likes to complain

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Poor John Boehner just can’t catch a break.

When President Obama proposed the Affordable Care act that incorporated what had been proposed by the Heritage Foundation in 1989 and the Republicans in 1993, he was told the GOP would not support it if it contained the Individual Mandate that the earlier conservative plan contained, so he took it out.

The Act passed, and John Boehner was in charge of the House that would vote at least 50 times to repeal what the GOP had wanted until they got it.

If they couldn’t get the whole thing repealed, maybe the GOP could delay part of it. So after demanding the section about the employer mandate, and because the president wouldn’t just do away with the ACA, the GOP shut down the government until it became an embarrassment to have done so.

President Obama eventually delayed the employer mandate, and John Boehner instituted a law suit against the president for having done what the GOP had demanded, except he did it without them.
Soon after this the children coming over the border from Central America had gotten out of control, and, in spite of the need for the House to do something nothing was done, and John Boehner said the president could handle it on his own without the involvement of congress.

Congress went on vacation, the president said he would have to do something about this immigration problem on his own by executive order, and Mr. Boehner is now all upset that the president will be doing it on his own.

With all the events going on in Iraq with ISIS and the need to do something to help those people isolated on a mountain and being massacred by them, politicians have demanded something needed to be done, and so the president ordered airstrikes and humanitarian air drops.

“The president’s authorization of airstrikes is appropriate,” Boehner said, “but like many Americans, I am dismayed by the ongoing absence of a strategy for countering the grave threat ISIS poses to the region. Vital national interests are at stake, yet the White House has remained disengaged despite warnings from Iraqi leaders, Congress, and even members of its own administration. Such parochial thinking only emboldens the enemy and squanders the sacrifices Americans have made. The president needs a long-term strategy – one that defines success as completing our mission, not keeping political promises – and he needs to build the public and congressional support to sustain it. If the president is willing to put forward such a strategy, I am ready to listen and work with him.”

The United States is war wary, and many people know that if Maliki had allowed residual troops to have remained with certain protections so they could do their job, and had had a coalition government instead of locking people out of participation, ISIS would not first have had a complaint, and second the freedom to act on that complaint.

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Obviously Maliki had an unrealistic image of his own reality.

So withdrawing in 2011 according to the timetable established by President Bush, and the missteps of Maliki were not the mistakes of Obama, but his honoring the strategy of a Republican president who must have had an exit strategy as we followed it as designed, and respecting a country’s sovereignty according to that plan.

Boehner meanwhile, while not offering a plan, demands that there be one.

But judging from past actions, no matter what plan is offered, the president would most likely get nothing more than opposition, obstruction, and blame for the result of that obstruction.

Even now, as the president has authorized airstrikes with no boots on the ground, and humanitarian air drops, the Speaker cannot say it is a beginning that needs to be assessed, he merely calls it a non-plan.

The only alternative plan that could be put into action is sending troops back.

I for one, and I did not agree with our being there in the first place, feel that we did what we set out to do, and just because Iraq enjoyed our troops doing their work with Maliki not doing what he should have done, we should not send troops back to die because of someone else’s foolish actions after our hard work.

Obviously Boehner seems to want boots on the ground so h can complain about that.

His insincerity is clear when it is remembered that the night before the airstrikes began there was a White House meeting for the leaders of the House and Senate, and, although invited, Boehner was a no-show.

 

Ann Colter confronts Father Damien

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Two doctors went to Africa to improve medical care for people there, and, being Christian missionaries to boot, spread the Good News while they were at it.

After having been exposed to it, Dr. Kent Brantly of Samaritan’s Purse and Nancy Writebol of Service in Mission contracted Ebola, and, being citizens of the United States, were brought home for treatment.

The born-again Christian queen Ann Colter was not too happy that American citizens came home from the “disease-ridden cesspool” that is Africa for medical treatment.

She wasn’t even all that happy that the two of them had chosen to do medical-missionary work there in the first place.

“If Dr. Brantly had practiced at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles and turned one single Hollywood power-broker to Christ, he would have done more good for the entire world than anything he could accomplish in a century spent in Liberia”.

Apparently the one soul of a Hollywood power-broker has more value than any number of Liberians.

Christians, whom she has preyed upon for years because they willingly bought the invective she threw out about people they didn’t like have objected to her now that she spoke against their own.

Remember how it was in the early days of the AIDS pandemic when they thought it only affected Gay men so it was pretty much okay to ignore it and those who got it.

Then it was discovered that the virus actually respected no sexual orientation.

Christians got it. Christians found compassion.

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But then they spread their hate to picketing funerals of military men, and then it suddenly became a bad thing.

Well, this is sort of like that.

Whatever Ann Colter said about certain people, no matter how untrue, was perfectly fine. But, now she went after two of their own, and she is bad now.

Susan M. Grant, the head nurse where the missionaries were taken to in Atlanta, asserted that Americans will benefit from what is learned by treating the patients.

“These Americans generously went to Africa on a humanitarian mission to help eradicate a disease that is especially deadly in countries without our health-care infrastructure. They deserve the same selflessness from us. To refuse to care for these professionals would raise enormous questions about the ethical foundation of our profession.”

I am sure the religious community will now go after Colter, as they will Donald Trump who tweeted:
“Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days – now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!”
“Stop the EBOLA patients from entering the U.S. Treat them, at the highest level, over there. THE UNITED STATES HAS ENOUGH PROBLEMS!”
“The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!”,
and Dr. Ben Carson, another favorite of the conservatives and the religious right, and who went after President Obama at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast, who said it was a mistake to bring the missionaries home when doctors could have flown to Liberia to treat them.

Once again situational ethics will trump religious conviction, and what was okay when applied to others will be condemned when applied to themselves.

Perhaps, as crude as she actually was with her heartless remarks, Ann Colter may be instrumental in exposing the hypocrisy of the religious people who need a good examination of conscience to see how their heartless remarks about others have been as hurtful.

This should sound familiar to many

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This sort of thinking might sound awfully familiar to people.

Ever vigilant to find something they can claim is God’s punishment against (name of a group), or God’s punishment for (name something you don’t like), religious radicals love a good disease.

Rick Wiles is the host of Trunews, which claims on its website to be “the world’s leading news source that reports, analyzes, and comments on global events and trends with a conservative, orthodox Christian worldview. Our vision is to build a global news network that provides a credible source for worldnews, events, and trends while giving respect and honor to Christians of all major denominations – Evangelical, Orthodox, Anglican, Catholic, and Protestant. We believe Christians need and deserve their own global news network to keep the worldwide Church informed, and to offer Christians a positive alternative to the anti-Christian bigotry of the mainstream news media”.

He is also a big fan of the “End Times”.

As part of his being a “global news network that provides a credible source for world news”, and his desire to “offer Christians a positive alternative to the anti-Christian bigotry of the mainstream news media”, he recently reported that a possible outbreak of Ebola in the United States “could solve America’s problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography and abortion.”

He also stated that, “If Ebola becomes a global plague, you better make sure the blood of Jesus is upon you, you better make sure you have been marked by the angels so that you are protected by God. If not, you may be a candidate to meet the Grim Reaper.”

So once again we have a religious guy claiming a plague is yet another punishment from God directed at certain people of which, of course, he is not one.

Sound familiar?
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Now we will just have to wait and see who else jumps onto this and promotes this idea.

One person we will not have to hear from is Jerry Falwell.

He’s dead, a victim of the Grim Reaper, which I guess means the blood of Jesus wasn’t upon him, he wasn’t marked by the angels, or he wasn’t protected by God.

Or did Mr. Wiles simply choose to ignore the reality that everyone faces the Grim Reaper eventually?

But, unlike the last time, though, when the AIDS pandemic was solely on the shoulders of Gay men, we get to share the blame for this outbreak with President Obama.

According to Wiles, Obama may intentionally require that all Americans get an ineffective vaccine to spread the disease so he will have the excuse to force citizens into those FEMA camps the far-right has been saying he has wanted to do for the last 6 years.

“Obama would claim executive powers to mandate that every human being in the United States be vaccinated. They could use the panic to stampede hundreds of millions of people in this country to be vaccinated, in fact billions worldwide, they could stampede the world to receive a vaccine against a deadly virus and nobody knows what is in the vaccine.”

So get the note pads out and take note of where this idea goes from here.

They are going crazy to justify themselves

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It should not have been all that much of a surprise that when facilities were needed to potentially house the thousands of kids coming across the border from Central America, military bases, especially those that were semi-closed, were a logical location.

They had housing for many and were in  confined, fenced in areas, and this was a national situation.

Here on Cape Cod there is the old Otis Air Force base now referred to as Joint Base Cape Cod owned by the feds with a residential area named Camp Edwards.

Obviously as the federal government was putting together a plan, the governors of those states with useful bases would be informed, even if, as time went on, those bases would not be needed.

But, as seems to be the way things go these days, before any facts were known and any assessment done, people and the politicians who use them, came up with their own “facts”,  and spoke and acted against them.

Even when the real facts were presented, they were ignored, and people clung to what they wanted the facts to be.
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The base on Cape Cod will not be used, and the sky did not fall. All the objections to housing the kids are now moot, and not using the base would have happened because of shifting conditions with or without objections and derogatory references.

People said and wrote some pretty nasty things about the kids, about the governor, about the president which in the end were a waste of time.

And, they were wrong.

Now begins the search for the justification for what they said, and the search for new and old things to go on about to distract from their most recent words and behavior.

Articles and blogs in the Cape Cod publication for which I do work, that dealt with how wrong people had been about what they assumed was going to happen and the things they just knew were the way things were, are now followed by those same people writing comments slightly acknowledging their mistakes, but vociferously declaring the “Yeah, Buts”.

The verbal gymnastics are very entertaining

The perfect test?

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Evangelicals are thrilled with the actions between Israel and Gaza, as any Middle East war could be the beginning of the end times, and they are convinced that when Jesus comes back, they will be in a good position.

That could help explain the most conservative wing of the GOP’s support of Israel and its interest in wars in the Middle East.

But, although their wars presage the “End Times” belief may not be the universal Christian belief, the belief that Jesus is coming back, is.

In Matthew 24: 36-44 it says, “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect”.

Now, while Jesus said his arrival would be quiet,  there are those who claim there will be trumpets, white horses, and fantastic cloud formations.

But if you have the words from the source, all other embellishments are just that, personal embellishments.

After all, what thief announces his arrival with a lot of “shock and awe”?
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Then there was this exchange in Matthew 25:40,

“When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’. “The King will answer and say to them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me. Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;…”

So here we have Jesus saying that when he comes back it will be at an unknown time under quiet circumstances, and that we should be kind to even the most unfortunate person because it could be Him.

So I wonder.

What if among the children coming from Central America facing some very unchristian reactions from the faithful, there is one very quiet and unassuming kid who is actually a little more than what He appears to be?

Wouldn’t that be something.

The perfect test.

Who does the Senate represent?

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So for the last several years the Senate has been able to get very little work done because by using the filibuster, even if the majority voted in favor of something, it would not pass without super majority of 60 votes.

Beginning in 2009 the Republican minority did everything to ensure that President Obama was a one term president by obstructing any program he promoted, even if it had been something the Republicans wanted until he had proposed it or expressed any support for it.

When he got reelected the original plan had to be abandoned, and guilt by association became the best way to retake the executive and legislative branches.

So obstruction continues as does the inactivity, and nothing is getting done for the people of the United States.

Although many sided with an inactive congress supporting their lack of doing what needed to be done for the American people and veterans by cutting unemployment insurance, food assistance and training programs for veterans and their families, cutting food programs in schools for poor kids, and such, they then yelled that these are the things we should be doing first for our own before we help the kids fleeing from Central America.

So it will be interesting now to see how these same people feel toward the Senate now that the last piece of business that the Senate got done Friday before going on recess had nothing to do with taking care of our own, but, instead, passing $225 million in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.

They couldn’t get things done, and they certainly could not get a unanimous vote on anything for us, but, the senate had no problem doing that when it came to Israel.

The Highway Trust Fund they voted for is temporary.

The GOP filibustered the alternative border crisis bill that would have provided $2.7 billion to provide additional border security and humanitarian relief to refugee children.

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Complaining that the Democrats in the senate opposed their use of the filibuster, they used a filibuster to prevent the appointment of the ambassador to Guatemala, one of the countries from which those unwanted children are fleeing

Everything else is on hold until after the recess.

Everything, that is, except Israel.

“This is a good example of us being able to put aside partisan considerations and work together to help our good friend, Israel,” said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

“I will stand by Israel for a lot of personal reasons but certainly for political reasons. And I have no hesitation in declaring to the world that’s how I feel,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry.

“As dysfunctional as the Congress has been, this is one of our finer moments. We’re about to leave here soon with a lot of work undone. But let it be said what we did have the foresight and the ability — and quite frankly the moral decency — to end on a positive note”, was how Lindsey Graham put it.

Overjoyed with themselves for their act of unity in helping another country without any reservations, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain all shook hands after the vote.

Imagine, helping a foreign country is the senate’s “finest moment” when such a moment should have been a vote for kids, the unemployed, and veterans.

So, Congress now goes on vacation without extending emergency unemployment benefits for millions of Americans, including 300,000 veterans, but they did pass $225 million in emergency funding for Israel’s military.

 

Something for the DREAMers

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Years ago I did cartoons for the Dorchester Community News. I did some cartoons dealing with the U.S. involvement in Central America back in 1982-83

This is one I did related to Alexander Haig claiming there were Nicaraguans involved in things although he had no concrete proof at that time.

A few years later when I taught in Los Angeles, there were students at Carnegie Junior High that had come from Central America through Mexico before getting to the United States.

Their journey wasn’t an easy one as some were victims of rape, and some were victimized by the unscrupulous the coyotes who had escorted them to this country after having led their parents to believe that for a price they could get their children here safely.

Knowing there was really no one they could turn to, or with whom they could communicate along the way, the coyotes made more money by pimping some of the girls along the way.

Although we were never told specifically who they were, we were informed to be sensitive to all students as some would be these.

The Republicans in the State House came up with the idea that all teachers must ascertain who in their classes were here illegally and report them under threat of loss of certification with a further threat being that if it was discovered that we had such kids in our classes and failed to turn them in, regardless whether we willfully withheld the information or could not prove we were ignorant of it if someone else discovered it, a teacher could be decertified. There was no room for innocence.

The state teachers’ union fought this as it was obviously very wrong, would create an adversarial atmosphere in the classroom, and could scare kids into avoiding school as they might be legal, but some relative might not be, and would be discovered through them.

Later in Oklahoma City I was certain that some of my students may not have been born in the U.S.A., but had been brought over the border so young, that as far as they knew, they were always citizens.

Some found out when applying for college as the end of their senior year approached that they actually weren’t.

But they had played with their classmates, worked hard their whole school careers so they could be the first to graduate from college, and had jobs to help support their families.

They were for all intents and purposes real Americans.

When the dream act was discussed, I knew it would affect kids I had had in class, and I was glad that conditions they were not responsible for would not turn around and bite them in the butts just when they became adults and thought they would have good lives in the only country thy ever knew and thought was theirs.

I was glad when President Obama made it possible that children who were brought here by their parents prior to 2007 could stay here. It made the lives of former students so much better.
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And I was glad that it was clarified that kids fleeing horrendous conditions and possible death in their home countries could find asylum her.

I knew kids who fell into this category.

Now we have our infighting, do nothing GOP congress finally getting together to, on one hand, vote to provide emergency funding to deal with the border crisis, but, on the other, to rescind President Obama’s authority to decide whether to deport certain undocumented immigrants.

Basically, even as it is obvious that the White House will not agree to this, The GOP can say, ”Hey, see? We took action on the crisis, so now it is okay for us to go on vacation”.

Just the other day when they failed to overcome themselves and come up with a way to address the problem at the border, John Boehner and other Republicans said Obama should handle things on his own.

So, “I’m going to have to act alone,” was Obama’s response.

Members voted 223 to 189 to approve $694 million in additional funding for federal agencies dealing with the influx of immigrants.
They also voted to adjust the 2008 anti-trafficking law and make it easier for the government to deport Central American minors who have entered the United States illegally, and to give money to the border states to pay for using the National Guard.

They also voted to remove the Obama administration program that provides protections to about 500,000 immigrants who were brought to the country as children.

So the DREAMers need to stop dreaming, and the children need to realize that they are just going to be sent right back into the jaws of what they were fleeing.

In a bit of irony senators failed to confirm the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala where much of the immigration crisis originates.

Maybe when they are on vacation the members of the House will think of ways to deal in a substantive way with what is going on in Central America, and, perhaps undo some of the mess this country is responsible for and which makes it necessary for the kids to flee.

 

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