What a week! We had the usual political wrangling in Washington over the usual issues: Health care (Health Insurance) reform, Cap and Trade (Cap and Tax), Illegal Immigrants, “You Lie”,et al.. and an old twist reared its ugly head — but, it’s lost its punch. The cry of RACISM.
As you know, I didn’t support our current president when he was running for the office. His vehement support for abortion was enough to run me off — on top of his questions about the “blind spots” in the Constitution and the founders of this land. I felt we needed someone who would bring us back to the conservative values most of us in this country want. Was John McCain the right guy? NO! But, he and Sarah Palin were a lot closer than Obama/Biden on their best days.
During the campaign, I got tons of calls on my shows with people calling me and anyone else who didn’t plan on voting for our current president racists. But, that subsided after the election. President Obama ran a masterful campaign the likes Elvis or Bruce Springsteen might have. He brought audiences joy and tears and in a hypnotic way drew them to the polling places in droves. He won fair and square and took office January 20th. I said then, it was a clean slate for me. I’d judge him on his actions on the issues important to my family and me. He quickly signed over taxpayer dollars to help pay for abortions in other countries, signed an almost 800 billion dollar “Stimulus” plan into law, and started expanding government and the deficit to record levels. I was critical on those policies and am on the new ones he backs and pushes as they come along — if I disagree with them.
For those of you who are convinced I simply disagree with everything the president says — umm, wrong. I agreed with the president when he: Capped CEO Pay at $500,000/yr for those companies who received any taxpayer dollars, gave the okay to shoot and kill the pirates off the coast of Africa who boarded an American vessel, made tougher rules for credit card companies when they want to raise interest and fees, and when he recently awarded the Medal of Honor to a fallen soldier. So, try to convince yourself as you will otherwise, but — as with every other politician — I have and will continue to judge this president on his actions on important issues. With that said, there are still some who will throw around the R word.
Although I didn’t like his stance on the issues, I felt there was one very positive result of this election. I felt that finally after hundreds of years of angst over skin color, ancestry and ethnicity, we’d be able to put away the race card. Think about it.. now that we’ve had a black secretary of state, a black-woman secretary of state, a Latino attorney general, now a Latina Supreme Court justice surely the whole idea of racism or ethnocentrism would go away, right? Not so much.
This week alone, a “leader” of the NAACP in South Carolina, fmr president, Bill Cosby, a representative from Georgia and others have demanded that rep. Joe Wilson yelled out, “You Lie” at the president’s speech in front of congress because he’s racist. In fact, a columnist I won’t name here said what Joe Wilson meant to say is, “You lie, boy.” It’s incredibly ironic that just when it looks like we’ve finally put color behind us, the screams of racism are the loudest.
Look, someone calling me a racist is now easy for me to blow off. I know my heart, mind and soul. Anyone who says that is easily ignored. Ask him or her one simple question, “What exactly did I say that was racist?” Case closed.. but, there’s a bigger problem with the liberal use of the word.
You see, true racism still does exist in 2009 America. Thankfully, it’s so much less than it once was… but, it’s not gone. There are racists of all backgrounds on people of all backgrounds; and now, they won’t be taken as seriously because of the cries of wolf from the aforementioned idiots. Come on, America — we’re better than this. We should be able to strongly criticize our government, our co-workers, our neighbors as long as we do it with facts and not emotion.. facts and not disconnected attacks.
BTW, sen. Harry Reid has repeatedly called fmr. president Bush a liar. Does Harry Reid hate white people? And, fmr. president Jimmy Carter (the worst president in my lifetime .. possibly ever) called then senator Barack Obama — while praising him — a “black boy” last year. Does Jimmy Carter hate black people? Come on people. Stick to the issues and enough diversions and distractions.
Healthcare reform is a precursor to government controlled healthcare. Cap and trade will raise the energy bills for a typical American home by over $1700 a year. Illegal immigrants WILL get health care under the plan the president backs. Our president just ended the building of a missile defense system in eastern Poland and gave in to the Russians on the 70thanniversary of the German/Soviet invasion of Poland. These issues are real.
but, what do I know?
j