This Week In Let’s Blame President Obama and Other Right Wing Nonsense

Former Vice President Dick Cheney wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal in which he stated “Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many". I like so many others naturally assumed he was speaking of former President George W. Bush…silly me, he meant President Obama. So in ole Dickie’s opinion, President Obama is worse than the entire cast of presidents who served while slavery was an established institution which allowed for an entire race of people to be systematically raped, tortured and murdered on a daily basis. Worse than those who reigned while countless Native American populations were slaughtered and their land was stolen. Worse than those who allowed Jim Crow legislation and institutional racism to thrive uncontested for years in the south. Really? In the Wall Street Journal article, Mr. Cheney was attempting to blame the President for the recent conflicts arising in Iraq. This from the man who along with President Bush lied to the American public about imaginary Weapons of Mass Destruction in order to wage against Iraq in the first place. In the guise of liberating the Iraqi people, billions of dollars were saved for oil service companies like Halliburton. You remember Halliburton the company where Cheney is the former CEO. This is the same man who along with President Dubya is responsible for the loss of more than 4,500 American lives and over 100,000 Iraqis. I gotta say that statement takes a pair of massively huge cojones Mr. Cheney. He along with many conservative critics believe President Obama should have held American troops in Iraq indefinitely and feel his weak decision to remove troops is the cause for the current unrest. However, these critics leave out the fact that the President of Iraq and the Iraqi Parliament voted to have American troops leave and that President Bush signed a binding agreement to do so before leaving office in 2008. Yep, signed off before President Obama even entered office. Of course Senator Grumpy Pants chimed in insisting that the solution to the current problem is to simply bomb Iraq.

The alleged mastermind said to be responsible for the Benghazi attack was captured this week and of course Republican politicians and pundits claimed it must be some type of diversion by the Obama administration like perhaps to draw attention to Hilary Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid…really? These idiots bombarded the media with ridiculous questions and assertions. Why was it a secret? Why was it a raid? Where was Obama? Where was Hilary? Where’s Waldo and where was he when Kennedy was shot? Is there anything here that can be used to repeal Obamacare or commence impeachment proceedings? Sheesh. The only way the President could get love form these people would be to invade the wrong country, turn record surpluses into deficits and use the banking industry to wreck the national economy…oh wait.

Apparently Rick Perry the governor of Texas feels alcoholics should not be allowed to marry.  Well actually he likened homosexuality to alcohol addiction and based on his views on marriage equality one would conclude…well you get the idea. Seems the ole Governor was defending Texas legislation which would allow Reparative Therapy for children. You know the so-called therapy where they attempt to change the sexual orientation of homosexuals with aversion techniques such as electric shock treatments to the genitals and nausea inducing drugs dispensed while showing the patient homoerotic stimuli. The same Reparative Therapy deemed harmful to individuals both physically and mentally and denounced by virtually every mainstream medical and scientific organization in the country. The Reparative Therapy based on age old assumptions that homosexuality is a mental disorder that can and should be cured. Assumptions that reinforce anti-gay bigotry based on the theory that being homosexual is somehow harmful or wrong and a person can and should change his/her sexual orientation. You know, nonsense. I’d like to see Governor Dumb Ass hooked up to electric shock treatment to see if he can change his sexual orientation. Or at the very least maybe it can be used to cure that drinking problem because being drunk is the only excuse for his ridiculous statements.

Same Ole Story

In the days since last I wrote a lot has happened but not much has changed. Conservative politicians are still walking around pretending that just because a Black man was elected president twice, racism no longer exists and apparently there are members of the Supreme Court who agree with them. These are the same clowns who continue to cut unemployment benefits, food stamps and training programs and then blame the poor for being poor. The same party of obstructionist who failed on their promise to make President Obama a one term president and continually blame him for the woes of the world. Last week President Obama negotiated the release of the only American prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Bowe Bergdahl. In the five years he has been held as a prisoner of war, conservative politicians have fiercely advocated for his release including Republican Senator John McCain who in February stated he would support a prisoner exchange for Bergdahl’s release. Of course the minute it was announced that President Obama had negotiated the release these same conservatives who had accused the President of dragging his heels on the matter flip flopped, including Senator Pinocchio Hypocrite McCain. Seriously, can someone please tell Senator Sour Grapes that he lost the 2008 presidential campaign, he seems not to have gotten the memo. The man needs help he’s suffering from a severe case of POTUS envy. Anyway, all of a sudden Bergdahl was transformed from prisoner of war to a deserting Taliban sympathizer and the President was accused of everything from behaving like an autonomous king (courtesy of Senator Mark Rubio) to abusing executive powers and threatened for the umpteenth time with impeachment (thank you Senator Ted Cruz). Of course there were some Hitler Nazi references a few Benghazi’s and threats to repeal Obamacare thrown in for good measure. Sheesh.

Meanwhile, Donald Sterling the Master of the Clippers Plantation went on an incoherent sociopathic racist rant in a conversation with his mistress. (I say mistress because I’m much too polite to call her a gold digging manipulating street whore…oops) There was something said about her screwing all the Black men she wants as long as she’s not seen in public with them or brings Black people to his Clippers games. Oh and he takes good care of his slaves employees because he gives them things. In an attempt to exonerate himself he agreed to an interview with Anderson Cooper where he continued his dementia fueled foot in mouth tirade attacking Earvin Magic Johnson stating, “I think he should be ashamed of himself. I think he should go into the background. And what does he do for black people? He hasn’t done anything.” He also implied that the original taped conversation was a set-up so that Magic could become the owner of the Clippers (actually not a bad plan) and questioned Magic’s status as a role model to the Black community saying, "Big, Magic Johnson, what has he done?, He's got AIDS."…wow.  So we should ignore the 20 plus years of Magic Johnson investing in and making charitable contributions to the African-American community. Instead because this nut ball was able to buy the silence of the L.A. chapter of the NAACP with his donation, we should just ignore Sterling’s well-documented decades long history of being a racist bigoted L.A. slumlord, illegally evicting Black and Latino tenants form his buildings.  We should ignore the lawsuit filed by former Clippers GM Elgin Baylor against this racist fossil for age and racial discrimination. I mean after all we have a Black president so racism must be dead...right?

Finally in completely unrelated news, Beyonce’s sister Solange comically kicked Jay Z’s ass in an elevator fueling countless expert explanations and comments for her rage. Among my favorites:

• He looked at her funny.
• That's the first hit she's had in years.
• He’s got 100 problems now.
• She was drunk and took something the wrong way. (Mean drunks are the worst.)
• She’s simply upset because her name is Solange. (Wouldn’t you be? Sounds like a former Soviet bloc eastern European country.)

Oh and Jean Kasem wife of the ailing Casey Kasem threw raw meat at his daughter in an apparent act of defiance after being court ordered to release him to her care. WTF??!!!