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Netanyahu’s Alternative to Averting Nuclear War with Iran…A Conventional War with Iran

OMG!May I tell you all a story?

In a long-ago and distant era, I was once in grad school. Computers were in a much less developed state then than they are now, but they were available to most people in university settings and they were becoming the Next Big Thing and the favorite toy of the day. There was nothing they couldn’t do and they were going to completely transform the way history was written.

A fad developed — consisting of running historical documents (and even novels) through computers to get exact counts of how often given words appeared. I was young and lacked the confidence at the time to say that I saw absolutely zero use for this information. I thought I was just too tech-ignorant to figure it out. I eventually left the program, feeling that I didn’t have what it took to be a historian in the modern era. I became a nurse.

The fad passed. As far as I know, no Pulitzer winning history was written using this technique.

After reading this about MSNBC, I realize that bad ideas never really die. They only briefly fade away.

Did you know that the word “whale” appears very often in the novel “Moby Dick”? 😀

» Posted By kesmarn On March 3, 2015 @ 12:18 pm

Netanyahu’s Top Ten Declarations

AdLib, I just finally had a chance to watch this Jon Stewart segment and it’s just brilliant.

His ability to be Jewish and still to see the humor in what’s going on is so awesome. He’ll be greatly missed. He’s such a totally unique voice. Thanks for posting this!

» Posted By kesmarn On March 5, 2015 @ 8:06 pm

😆 Great minds!

I JUST finished posting this very same quotation on Morning Blog a minute ago.

I thought Nancy summed things up very nicely.

» Posted By kesmarn On March 3, 2015 @ 11:50 am

Creepy is the word for it, AdLib. I just finished watching it (and then doing a little searching for general reaction to it).

He definitely succeeded in throwing red meat to his fan club in the US. It was undeniably the perfect speech for this audience — no big words, graphics like Elie Wiesel, lots of emotion (not emotionS — since there was only one — fear). Simplistic ideas. No recognition of the fact that urging people to show courage in standing up to their aggressive neighbors might hit a nerve in Gaza.

A thoroughly classless stunt. Now he and his co-conspirator, John Boehner, can go have several glass of wine together in the hopes that a month from now they’ll each still have their respective jobs.

» Posted By kesmarn On March 3, 2015 @ 9:56 am

Pipeline, Who Needs One?

Good points, Nirek!

Now I’ll cue the “Twilight Zone” music and speculate a little bit here. Would I be too much of a conspiracy theorist if I thought that the oil industry might be deliberately shipping oil on poorly maintained railway lines? Those spectacular explosions following derailments are video “candy” for TV news. Those stories always lead because they’re so dramatic.

Tonight I even saw one derailment and explosion story that ended up with the statistic that “experts predict” that there will be many more of these derailments over the next ten years, and they “question the safety of transporting oil by railway.”

This was on the local FOX affiliate. I couldn’t help but wonder if the subliminal message was: “Look how much safer a pipeline would be!”

Of course, most sane people recognize that the risk to the environment from a ruptured pipeline is as bad as (possibly worse than) a derailment. After all, the aquifer beneath the proposed Keystone XL supplies drinking water for nine states.

Maybe I’m too cynical. But when the Koch brothers are involved in any project, it’s all too easy to get that way.

» Posted By kesmarn On February 23, 2015 @ 8:20 pm

Why Some Fundamentalist Christians Are Aligned With ISIS

Sue, I really had never thought about the infamous Dubya “conversion experience” before in the way you described it. He “latched onto it to save himself from something else” (namely, his own alcoholism). And you’re right — in retirement, he’s no Jimmy Carter, that’s for sure.

But during his eight years he definitely made himself a very useful tool for Dominionists, without a doubt.

I’ve read hints of a new volunteer “Christian Militia” forming in the ME to battle ISIS. Maybe Dubya and Cheney would like to jet in with their threadbare “Mission Accomplished” banner and lead the troops.

It would be the first time for either of them.

» Posted By kesmarn On February 19, 2015 @ 2:30 pm

I have a relative who lives in TN, and she told me recently that there is a very active branch of the KKK only about 20 miles from her. They are far from being in the distant past.

» Posted By kesmarn On February 19, 2015 @ 8:58 am

Right you are, Homie. Any party that has a tent big enough to include Dubya and Sarah Palin clearly has problems with judging character!

Honestly, I doubt that there ever was a “right” time for American troops to leave the ME. (I remember talking about getting us out of there back in about 2004, and a friend of mine said: “No! The place will go up in flames the minute we leave!” And I replied: “The place is going to go up in flames whenever we leave — even if it’s ten years from now — so let’s get out now.”)

As you said — the mistake was in ever having gone in there in the first place. Dubya sowed the wind and now everyone is reaping the whirlwind.

If there were only a way to turn the clock back…

» Posted By kesmarn On February 19, 2015 @ 8:47 am

Back once more, AdLib, after having read the Atlantic article — which is really a very impressive piece of journalism, in that Wood was able to interview — at length — some major players in this situation. To our Planeteers: it’s a lengthy article but well worth the read.

The one quotation that Wood presented (from Orwell) really summed up his main point:

Fascism is psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life … Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people “I offer you a good time,” Hitler has said to them, “I offer you struggle, danger, and death,” and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet … We ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.

I worry, though, that Wood’s article (which is more nuanced than anything FOX “News” or Franklin Graham has ever presented) will nevertheless still be used by them and the rest of the right to vilify Islam as a whole and/or to justify putting more US combat troops on the ground in the ME. Although that is really not what Wood is saying here.

It seems to me that ISIS is definitely something to be taken seriously, but not necessarily cause for panic either. For all their boasting about plans for a vast Caliphate, there’s little reckoning of the difficulty of maintaining an empire that covers a great deal of territory with supply lines stretched beyond all practicality. And the unlikelihood that there are enough homicidal sociopaths in all of Islam to fill the ranks of the necessary occupying troops.

The history of jihadists in the ME seems to be rife with endless splitting into faction after faction — endless power struggles between purist leaders battling to claim the ultimate moral high ground. I don’t want to make light of the situation, but there seems to be an almost limitless potential for a totally self-destructive implosion.

And, as Wood implied, there doesn’t seem to be the danger to the American home front that there was from Al Qaeda and bin Laden (who were more focused on the “far enemy”).

As much as John McCain and company would love to get us pulled back into this situation, it seems that the people who have the most vested interest in putting the brakes on these guys are their immediate neighbors in the ME. And then Europe. I really hope they’ll see it that way, and not simply assume that we’ll do the heavy lifting here.

Wood is pretty critical of President Obama and his staff for not seeing the situation clearly enough and soon enough. But — and I could be wrong — I don’t recall any other voices in 2011 sounding the alarm about ISIS either. Maybe the President’s handling of the situation in the ME has been less than flawless, but overall I think it’s been pretty steady, well-informed and sensible.

What strikes me (and I suspect most of us) is how much Dubya, Cheney, Rice et al have had to do with creating this horrific mess. So many of these jihadis were radicalized by Bush’s wretchedly misguided war. He opened Pandora’s box and then just walked blithely away from the whole scene.

Given the assumption that Wood makes about ISIS representing less danger to the US mainland than Al Qaeda did, I guess the next question is: Is there a danger to us here that is festering just as silently and secretly as ISIS did in the ME? Something we might wish we’d paid more attention to when we look at it in hindsight 50 years from now? Given the similarity in the way rigid and scripturally literal fundamentalists think, maybe we should be having a good long look at the Oathkeepers movement, the Dominionists, militant Christians in the military, and extreme Christian Zionists.

We might be growing our own ISIS here, right under our noses.

» Posted By kesmarn On February 18, 2015 @ 8:43 pm

Thanks much for the clarification, AdLib. I think I see what you’re saying now. Which is — if I can try to paraphrase — that it’s important for religious leaders to make it clear that there are parts of their scriptural bases that are ambiguous (at best) and/or misguided and/or not to be taken literally. Which would be a huge admission — as you say — for fundies of every variety.

As you note — there are huge sections of the Old Testament that clearly accept (and occasionally encourage) slavery, violence, misogyny, the notion of a violent and vengeful God, etc. When I was being taught Catholic theology (back in the good old liberal, post-Vatican II days), the word was that these earlier OT books were a sort of inevitable way station on the evolutionary path to a more mature, enlightened and loving relationship with a more benign God. We were always taught that most of the Bible was not to be taken literally — but as a chronicle of a sort of groping toward spiritual enlightenment through poetry, allegory and (at times) plain and simple human trial and error. Evolution was — during my time in college — always a given. I never heard its validity questioned once.

Now, naturally, this is regarded as rank heresy by people like the conservative Southern Baptists and the Pentecostals. Hence, they’re able to produce stuff like the awful statements of late that “it was too bad about those Coptic Christians having been beheaded, but they were never real Christians to start with.”

So yes, I can see that what you’re saying about this being a struggle between religious extremists/throwbacks and enlightened religious believers makes total sense. What we need to hear more of would be religious leaders who say: “You can quote chapter and verse of the Qur’an or the Old Testament to justify what you’re doing, but you’re wrong. Not every word of that document is meant to be taken literally. You need to pay attention to the parts of our scripture and faith tradition that emphasize peace and tolerance and let go of the rest. Until you can do that, you’re not recognized as a Muslim [Christian, Jew.]”

Those are words that are going to be difficult, if not impossible, for a lot of these mullahs or fundie preachers to get out of their mouths. But it would sure be a large step in the right direction.

(Btw, I do think it’s totally fair to say that Westboro Baptists, violent Dominionists, KKK “Christians” and their ilk are not Christians, no matter what they call themselves. I think JC himself, if he were to re-appear might say the same thing.)

And in the meantime, let’s fix that income inequality thing!

» Posted By kesmarn On February 18, 2015 @ 5:32 pm

This is a tough one, AdLib. I think part of the difficulty lies in who is doing the “deciding” as far as whether or not a person or a group is “Islamic.” (Or “Christian,” or “American,” or “German”)

There’s no doubt that ISIS claims to be Islamic — and probably deeply believes that it is. But mainstream Muslim leaders insist otherwise. In effect saying: “Don’t claim us, because we certainly don’t claim you.”

The same goes with groups like Westboro Baptist. I don’t know of any mainstream Protestant denomination that would say “they’re one of us.” Even though the Westboro people proudly lay claim to the title “Christian.”

So I guess the first question — when any group claims to be “faith-based” — is: “Sez who?” Does identification as a member of any given group go to anyone who merely claims it? Or do the leadership and other members of that group also get a say?

What does turn people into beheaders and monsters who burn victims alive in cages? Or — for that matter — people who lynch others, burn crosses on lawns, or publicly “thank God for dead soldiers”?

What turns people into sadists?

As you’ve said, feeling helpless, hopeless, dispossessed, and scorned surely plays a major role. It’s hard to believe that the misinterpretation of some lines of scripture could truly send people into this moral death-spiral.

Many people — understandably to some extent — blame religion itself for the violent chaos that reigns in the ME and elsewhere. But I think the real roots go in another direction. Misinterpreted religion is just the way monsters cloak their sadism in what they think is an “acceptable” — even righteous — external ‘garment.’ When you torture for your “God,” you’re one of his mighty warriors (they tell themselves). You’re not just a deranged, furious loser.

More and more, I’m beginning to suspect that the unprecedented level of global income inequality is the prime mover behind much of this. People all over the world can feel themselves getting closer and closer to the cliff’s edge. And they’re not wrong. Estimates are that if the current level of growing inequality continues, by 2050 the richest 1% will own most of the world’s wealth.

When people face this terrifying reality as well as extremely rapid social change, they do strange things. When some crazy, ranting leader figure promises them that he’s going to bring them to the restoration of their former glory, they buy it.

Whether it’s some TeaParty 2d Amendment loon urging them to “take back their country.” Or some guy in Germany in 1932, with a funny-looking mustache saying that the humiliation of a WWI defeat was going to be erased. Or some would-be Caliph promising that the Caliphate would be restored and doctrinal purity would reign throughout the world. It all just sounds so simple and powerful.

All you need are your guns, guns, guns.

“And this will surely be the war to end all wars. Just believe that one more time. Honest.”

Sigh.

» Posted By kesmarn On February 18, 2015 @ 2:32 pm

Some Thoughts on Race and Crime…

Nirek, Ohio has a good record as an underground railroad state as well, and I’ve always been proud of that. There are some houses right here in my area — still standing — that were stopping-over points for people headed to Canada and freedom. That truly was dangerous business then — for both the escapee and anyone who helped him or her. At that time, as we know, they were both breaking the law.

It’s good to know that there were church people involved in the process too. Because there sure were plenty of people in the South claiming that the Bible justified their ownership of their fellow human beings. No question about who the real Christians were in this case!

» Posted By kesmarn On February 16, 2015 @ 9:39 am

“And being faithful to a society that has ignored them seems crazier than resorting to crime.”

Now that is a lot of truth in one brilliant sentence.

» Posted By kesmarn On February 16, 2015 @ 9:29 am

Michael, I know I’m not saying anything original when I say that this is such a huge, pervasive and long-standing issue that it’s hard to know where to begin to wrap our heads or hands around it.

As you and Beatlex have noted, the history of slavery here in the US makes race issues much more complicated than they might be elsewhere. I think we all know that the fact that the Civil War was fought more than 150 years ago hardly makes it old news or irrelevant. In so many areas, it might as well have been yesterday. Friday night I finally got a chance to see “12 Years A Slave,” and scenes from it looked almost identical to the photo that supplies the graphic for your article today. That photo appears to have been taken at a prison but for all the world it looks like an image of the slaves and the overseer from the bad old days. How can so little have changed over such a long period of time? It seems that for a certain immoral and greedy sub-set of the population, the goals never change — to accumulate wealth without labor and to dominate others — and if they’re blocked from doing it one way, they’ll find another. And they’ll cite scripture to do it.

A friend of mine has said that she has been told to “get over it” when it comes to being treated poorly as a woman of color. “A Black man was elected to the highest office in the land, so that proves this country has moved beyond racism,” is the claim. “Why do ‘you people’ insist on living in the past?” is thrown in her face. But haven’t we all heard of the abusive and/or unfaithful spouse ask that same question? “Why do you choose to live in the past?” That’s an old, old trick.

Of course, we all know that it is hardly “living in the past” to point out the obvious racism that still exists in the 21st century. Including racism that is directed toward that Black man in the White House.

I think that — besides our history of slavery — there’s another factor that makes race harmony harder to achieve in the US than in many other developed countries. And that is the enormous — and growing — level of income inequality here. I read an article recently that observed that people who are poor tend to be much more resentful and angry if there’s someone near to them who very obviously has much more than they do. Whereas, if there seems to be about the same level of wealth wherever they look, that emotion of outrage and fury is much less likely to happen.

Even if it’s only through the media, this awareness of inequality happens every day in America. The “average” house in TV shows and commercials seems to be about 5000 sq. feet and everyone seems to drive at least one Cadillac or Lexus. A Disneyland vacation seems to be an annual event for virtually every family. Golfing along the Trent Jones trail is just what people do. Liposuction and botox treatments are as common as getting teeth cleaned. For people who are battling to stay afloat with part time, $8/hour jobs this is infuriating. When you’re in a demographic group that is the last hired and first fired, it’s beyond infuriating.

Until we address income inequality in a serious way, this is only going to get worse. Allowing this to be dismissed as “class envy” should not be on.

And as you mentioned, education is absolutely critical. Schools need to be funded adequately, integrated, public, free and safe. Channeling taxpayer money into the pockets of unethical charter school companies is wrong. Granted — there are some functional charter schools out there — but as my state of Ohio unfortunately demonstrated recently there are others that misuse funds, inflate attendance figures and do little more than warehouse kids.

I don’t see any one of the potential GOP presidential candidates for 2016 who’s willing to make race issues a priority. And I sure don’t see any Republican governors stepping up to the plate.

We need to vote, vote, vote for candidates who are up to the job of tackling this deep-rooted and persistent illness. When we have more decent and honest city councilmen, judges, mayors and congresspeople, it’ll be a lot harder to pull off travesties like Ferguson again.

» Posted By kesmarn On February 15, 2015 @ 4:45 pm

AL Chief Justice Roy Moore: “Homophobia today, Homophobia tomorrow, Homophobia forever!”

AdLib, I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to get to reading this wonderful article. The comparison couldn’t be more apt. Moore is George Wallace 2.0

To me it seems that the attitude of both Wallace and Moore is that the federal government is supposed to be there when they need it — to assist during natural disasters, to provide funding for various programs, to supply an army for the defense of the whole country. But the feds are not supposed to have any power or authority.

Hmmmm. What do you call an entity that has no power, but exists only to serve without recompense?

I think that would be called a slave.

» Posted By kesmarn On February 23, 2015 @ 9:10 am

Chris Christie Courts Pro-Measles Voters

Awesome, AdLib! I was really impressed by those realistic-looking measles on Christie’s face in the graphic too! 😆 I always love the graphics you come up with.

The Dumb-U-Down 3000 is really going to get a workout over the next year or so. Joni Ernst alone could blow several dozen fuses and circuit breakers. Please don’t forget to have it towed in for it’s 100,000 mile checkup when it’s due.

As for Christie. I can’t wait for Jeb’s people to dig up those old videos of him hugging the President and being all bi-partisanishy after Super storm Sandy. It’s gonna be an interesting campaign.

» Posted By kesmarn On February 3, 2015 @ 8:43 am

Part Two Of The Life Of A Draftee

Thanks again, Nirek. That certainly confirms a suspicion I had long ago that those numbers must have been inflated. They were so high — week after week — that people back here had to begin wonder how many military-age males would have been left to fight for the North!

And I can see that it would have been hard to get timely or unbiased news in the situation in which you found yourself. If you don’t mind another question — was your mail censored at all?

Thanks again for your patience in answering all my questions.

» Posted By kesmarn On February 9, 2015 @ 3:47 pm

Nirek, I don’t even know the words to thank you for this second chapter of the Story of a Draftee. But thank you. For some reason, over the last year or two, I’ve become really focused on studying the wars of the twentieth century. I think that if we could come to fully understand how we got into those wars, how they were conducted and how they affected the people who fought them, we’d be able to apply that knowledge to the prevention of future misery for the country and the people who serve in the military.

I do have a few questions.

You mentioned you were there during the Tet offensive. Was it your impression that this was a complete surprise — both to the South Vietnamese army and the US military leaders? Also, did you have South Vietnamese soldiers attached in any way to your unit while you were there? If so (or if you had a chance to talk to them) did you have the feeling that they were on board with “the mission,” or were they more or less blindly following orders or confused as to what was going on?

Another somewhat “technical” question: When you were patrolling, did you have any sort of body armor or bullet-proof vest of any kind? In the film I’m seeing — in documentaries like “Vietnam in HD” — it doesn’t look as though there’s anything like that. The soldiers seem to be so vulnerable — basically wearing shirts and pants, it appears!

Also, when you were there, were you aware of any of the tremendous controversy that surrounded the war back here in the States? Was there news of demonstrations and protests? Were there discussions of the “what are we doing here?” variety among the troops there? Or was that topic off limits?

I recently was talking with some Korean war vets and they seemed to feel that the war experience was extremely intense and life-changing at the time. And then, when they entered their careers and were raising their families, the whole thing was more or less put on the back burner. But later, they found that once they retired, they returned in their memories to those days and began to sort through all those experiences and try to find the meaning in them. If it’s not too personal to ask — have you found this to be the case as well?

Again — thanks so much for sharing this deeply personal and intense experience with us. One that the vast majority of us will never fully comprehend, as we haven’t walked that proverbial mile in your combat boots. Reading this is the closest we’ll ever some to being there. I’m wishing no one ever had to be there at any time! But as you know, the more history we know, the less likely we are to have to repeat it.

» Posted By kesmarn On February 8, 2015 @ 7:13 pm

GOP House Speaker John Boehner Defends Deflated Balls

Excellent, AdLib!

Once the Patriots are finished with the pump used to inflate balls, maybe they’ll let Boehner borrow it to re-inflate his.

I hear those pumps work on various and sundry types of “potency-enhancing” implants too….

So — with a little help — he should be able to declare himself “re-Boehn(ed)” at the same time that he can say he’s mastered the risk of deflation.

Thanks, New England Pats. (I think.)

» Posted By kesmarn On January 23, 2015 @ 5:22 pm

Watching “Selma” In A Nearly Empty Theater. Why?

Welcome to the Planet, Lightning Joe! This past Tuesday I attended a public forum at our local mosque on the issue of terrorism and Islam. The main point was that the vast majority of Muslims totally condemn terrorism. But they’re having a hard time getting that message out because the media presents the public with such a different message.

Several people in the audience mentioned FOX “News” as a very significant part of the problem. Their relentless fear- and anger-mongering — and even outright falsehoods — tend to poison the well (to use their currently popular expression) and set people at odds with each other when we should be trying to work together.

Roger Ailes has an awful lot to answer for.

» Posted By kesmarn On January 25, 2015 @ 1:27 pm

So — instant and unquestioning obedience, all the time, to any alleged authority figure is the “successful” way to live life? I realize you’re not saying that, gyp46, but that seemed to be the take-away from the film for the other couple. Which is genuinely frightening.

I would call that a life not worth living.

People in authority can be wrong. And are wrong. It happens all the time. I can hardly imagine where we’d be if no one had ever questioned authority when it behaved unjustly. I just know it would be a pretty ugly place. Putting on a uniform or being elected or being ordained or getting a law degree doesn’t confer instant virtue — or even ordinary sound judgment. We have to view authority through the lens of a well-formed and adult conscience, and then decide whether we’re going to go along with what that authority says.

But then, I know that you already know that! 🙂

» Posted By kesmarn On January 25, 2015 @ 8:46 am

Yuck, yuck and McDouble Yuck, Kalima! I avoid their food as well. Especially since I read a piece called “Anatomy of a McNugget.” Disgusting doesn’t begin to describe it.

And the same word applies to the way they treat their employees.

» Posted By kesmarn On January 24, 2015 @ 6:32 pm

Totally agree, Homie. It was a war that never should have happened. And it deeply affected a whole generation — even down to the present day. (I think we saw that in the Kerry vs Bush campaign.)

And probably beyond.

» Posted By kesmarn On January 24, 2015 @ 6:28 pm

Kalima, for a company with a black CEO, this is pretty shocking. I would think that if Donald Thompson doesn’t launch an investigation into this situation and deal with any wrongdoing, it will be a real statement as to what his and the company’s priorities are.

» Posted By kesmarn On January 24, 2015 @ 5:49 pm

Nirek, I know I for one would be very interested in reading the next installment of “Life of a Draftee.” I really hope you’ll go through with your plan to write it.

After seeing this documentary, I feel I have a little more understanding of what you and the guys you served with went through. I hope it wouldn’t be too distressing for you to watch it, but at least you would have the ability to turn it off and/or walk away if you watched it at home. I can’t deny that it is very vivid and they use the men’s own words to describe things. But it seems to be honest in a way that a lot of fictional representations of that era can’t quite achieve.

» Posted By kesmarn On January 24, 2015 @ 5:13 pm

Isn’t it amazing, Homie? I could only watch one episode, because it’s very moving and emotionally draining. But somehow it feels therapeutic too — to get the real picture of what was happening there.

I do want to go back and watch the rest of the series, though. As soon as I get my courage up!

» Posted By kesmarn On January 24, 2015 @ 5:10 pm

Nirek, if you happen to have Netflix, there’s a remarkable documentary out now called “Vietnam in HD.” It contains some unbelievable footage of “home movies” shot there along with first hand accounts of the war. It’s definitely not easy to watch, but — although I’m no expert — it seems to be one of the most “real” things I’ve ever seen on Vietnam.

» Posted By kesmarn On January 24, 2015 @ 8:07 am

In 1967, A High School Junior, Me, Was Invited To A Speech By Dr. King

Murph, the excerpt from Dr. King’s speech in the link you supplied is really terrific. Dr. King has been known to so many young people (who were born after he was assassinated) only as the “I have a dream” leader.

He was all that — and more. And this segment of his speech in SC shows that. He appears as that most wonderful of contradictions: the angry pacifist. He’s outraged by the war in Vietnam. He states the obvious when he says that “the white man has amply demonstrated that he has no sense,” adding “so why should I act like that?”

But the theme that pervades all is “I choose love.” Remarkable clip of a remarkable man.

» Posted By kesmarn On January 20, 2015 @ 1:37 pm

If Obama had gone to Paris the Right Would Still Have Gone Ballistic!

That does sound even “FOXier,” Murph. I realize that’s also a dubious compliment…. 😉 But it is something they would say.

Sadly.

» Posted By kesmarn On January 14, 2015 @ 7:22 pm

Murph, if you’re not careful you’re going to have FOX recruiters beating down your front door trying to get you to write copy for them! 😆 I think you nailed it. That’s exactly the way they would have presented it.

Anything — literally anything — gets warped into an attack on the President. Recently when Sarah Palin was chided by PETA and others for posting photos of her 6 year old son with Down’s Syndrome standing on the family dog, her response was: “Hypocrites! Your President eats dog meat.” Puh-leeze. Does anyone seriously believe that the White House kitchen has a stock of canine chops in the freezer? They have truly taken leave of reality.

» Posted By kesmarn On January 14, 2015 @ 9:28 am