Disrespect for the presidential office has got to stop! What is happening to the executive branch is cause for alarm.
First: Speaker John Boehner has a photo op with all the pomp afforded the president to sign a bill into law.
Second: Speaker Boehner invited a Jewish Prime Minister to speak before the House of Congress.
Third: 47 senators sends out a letter to leaders in Iran threatening sanctions in a show of force to undermine delicate negotiations between our president and other nations on nuclear weapons.
Speaker Boehner pulled a stunt when he signed a bill into law as if he was President Obama. And the press was just as stupid for covering it. I was outraged at the lack of respect for protocol.
Not to outdo himself, his next stunt involved inviting Netanyahu to speak before Congress without so much as a whimper to the executive branch. He gets high press coverage and they treat the foreigner like he is their leader. I'm outraged by this stunt. Its almost treason in my opinion. Its never been done before and it tells ms that these haters will stop at nothing to make this president fail. They are fooling around with our security with these antics and they ought to be called out on it.
In reference to the 47 senators, I pulled this from an article, which speaks for itself, in The Daily Kos:
"Dr. Javad Zarif expressed astonishment that some members of US Congress find it appropriate to write to leaders of another country against their own President and administration. He pointed out that from reading the open letter, it seems that the authors not only do not understand international law, but are not fully cognizant of the nuances of their own Constitution when it comes to presidential powers in the conduct of foreign policy."
Just goes to show you the ignorance of these senators who probably wish they could take back what they did. But then again, maybe not.
After having endured all this breach of protocol I got to thinking, what is the deep-rooted grievance against this president? They are truly trying to delegitimize him.
Lets consider the real reason for all the disrespect.
I thought back to something that happened in my life while I was working for a temp agency. They brought in a young attractive women of mixed race. She looked to be black mixed with Caucasian ancestry. She was smart, articulate and intelligent. Yet they gave her hell while she was there. I couldn't figure out why they treated her so badly. She was eventually let go and the agency had to come and get her belongings because they would not let her back in the building. I could not fathom why they did this to her. To this day I wonder about it. It was unbelievable.
And now we have President Obama. He's smart, articulate, handsome and has a wonderful personality. He's also mixed race. We are trained to call anybody with a drop of black blood---Black! The president's mixed heritage is totally disregarded. The right wing extremist haters look at the president and they see him as something other than what he is. They are rabid about not acknowledging his whiteness because then they will have to really take a good look at themselves and their own heritage of mixed race shenanigans which produced all these variations in skin color. They will have to admit that they are not as pure as they would like us to believe. They will also have to admit that the president is truly and African Caucasian American in the truest sense. He has no history of slavery in his heritage like most of us black folks. He is really as legitimate as one can get when you compare him to Blacks in this country. That's why they attack his background and call him everything but a child of God. They don't want him to know how pure and real his heritage is. And that he should be proud of it.
Its the saddest thing I ever had to witness and I'm sick of it.
The Republican Party and their right wing base are relentless at trying to chip away at this president's self esteem. Mr. President, don't let them win. Keep on fighting everything they try to do to you. Democrats have a backbone and get behind your leader and defend him and our democratic principles like Barbara Boxer did.
Another reasoning for all the hatred towards President Obama had me going back and taking a second look at all the white folks with German heritage. Remember the Germans tried to exterminate the Jews and they still have a deep-seated hatred for them and anybody that's different from them. That hatred produced the KKK and all these hate groups that have sprung up at an alarming rate. Do we have any German's in the house & Senate pretending to like Jews while secretly hating them? And we know they always hated Blacks and never wanted mixing of the races period. Their goal in life is to see to it that their theory of being a superior race is proven at all costs. Everything negative that they do against the Black race is by design to always prove that they are superior. Superior neighborhoods, always clean with manicured lawns and nice homes; businesses, entertainment, governing the masses.
I wrote a book that tests that theory profoundly. I grew up in a neighborhood that was ghetto (dismal) by design because the government would not give housing loans to blacks and they had to settle for project housing instead of the nice single homes they wanted to build. I got the chance to travel to Florida to visit friends and I swear, I saw my neighborhood down there. It was shocking. The same projects, no grass, very depressed-looking. It was amazing. I had been sheltered too long. I still cannot get over that scene. It was a way to keep a race from progressing. This can explain why these folks are so relentless in their attempts to destroy and humiliate this president. They would rather destroy the country and compromise our security before they help this president succeed. It's quite scary. So this is how I have tried to rationalize these right-wing extremists' bizarre behavior.
At the 50 year celebration of the Selma march only George and Laura Bush showed up. Where was the Speaker of the House, The Majority Senate Leader and the Clintons for that matter. Their absence speak volumes. Is this another breakaway from protocol? It sure looks that way. Thank you President Bush for being there. No thanks to the rest of you for not showing up and forever cementing in my mind that you feel good about voting rights being taken away from American Citizens!!
Shame on all of you!!