These leaders continue to hide behind myths that have nothing to do with resolving the major issues of our times or are just plain stupid, indicating that they are truly not of this reality that most of us live in. And by not being of our reality, their actions and words are useless as far as making a positive impact on our lives.
The second set of posts, of which we are in the middle of now, deal more with the quotes of politicians and how those quotes reinforce these myths and how they are designed to scare the daylights out of you because these are the supposed leaders of this country. Today we continue with their quotes and how they constantly prove the old axiom: "It is better to remain silent and thought ignorant than to speak to speak up and remove all doubt."
As you examine these quotes, ask yourself if these are the people you really want in charge of our government and in charge of managing our wealth, our health, and various aspects of our lives/
As you examine these quotes, ask yourself if these are the people you really want in charge of our government and in charge of managing our wealth, our health, and various aspects of our lives/
1) Quote: “I have to say, I do not remember my high school graduation speaker. I have no idea who it was. I’m sure I was thinking about the party after graduation. I don’t remember the party either. I’m just telling the truth.” President Obama, joking about his underage drinking during a graduation speech to high school students.
Comments: The President, his backers, and most of the mainstream media have been trying to forge the myth that President Obama is our first “cool” President. He was the first one with a smartphone, he talked about doing illegal substances in college, he was younger and more energetic, etc.
But he is not cool if he thinks that telling or implying to high school students that he was drunk at the time of his high school graduation, so out of if that he does not even remember the post graduation party. The following is why such “coolness” is not cool, according to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research:
- Annually, about 5,000 people under age 21 die from alcohol-related injuries involving underage drinking.
- Approximately 1,900 (38 percent) of the 5,000 deaths involve motor vehicle crashes, 1,600 (32 percent) result from homicides, and 300 (6 percent) result from suicides.
- Underage drinking plays a significant role in risky sexual behavior, including unwanted, unintended, and unprotected sexual activity, and sex with multiple partners. Such behavior increases the risk for unplanned pregnancy and for contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
- Underage drinking increases the risk of physical and sexual.
- Underage drinking is associated with academic failure.
- Underage drinking is associated with illicit drug use.
- Underage drinking is associated with tobacco use.
- Underage drinking can cause a range of physical consequences, from hangovers to death from alcohol poisoning.
- Underage drinking can cause alterations in the structure and function of the developing brain, which continues to mature into the mid- to late twenties, and may have consequences reaching far beyond adolescence.
So, not cool, myth destroyed. How inappropriate for a President of the United States to speak at a high school graduation and try reinforce what is obviously bad and dangerous behavior of our nation’s youth.
2) Quote: “The Taliban is part of the fabric of Afghanistan — they were part of the leadership of that country before we engaged there. To say that they are terrorists, at this point, is not necessarily accurate.” California Congresswoman Jackie Speier
Comments: What do you say to such ignorance as this? Of course, they were part of the leadership of the country before we dropped in, they were the entire leadership of the country. They terrorized and murdered their own people, with the death toll estimated to be between 20,000 and 35,000 people, many of whom were killed for minor, minor transgressions. They made sure that women were kept ignorant and subservient to men. They made sure that young girls never got an education.
On what basis does she think that all of a sudden the Taliban have become caring humanitarians, respectful of women rights and living in a compassionate and law abiding country? You cannot make this stuff up, so out of touch with reality.
3) Quote: “These 5 guys are not a threat to the United States.” Hilary Clinton
Comments: This is what Hillary said in reference to the five Taliban leaders Obama gave up in exchange for one likely Army deserter. Many, many people in the U.S. intelligence and military communities, experts on this kind of thing, were strongly against the trade and the release of these five terrorists.
So are we to believe a civilian who botched the whole Benghazi debacle by underestimating the potential reach and violence of the local terrorists in Libya, resulting in the unnecessary deaths of four Americans and the endangering of two dozen others, or the experts who may know a little more than her on what these five have been capable of in the past and are certainly capable of now?
Remember, Bin Laden masterminded the whole 9-11 disaster while sitting on the floor in a cave in Afghanistan. Most rational people would conclude that these five terrorists, hungry for revenge, are definitely a major danger to American lives.
4) Quote: “We haven’t had a signature doctrine since containment worked with the Soviet Union, uh, but we’ve had presidents who have made some tough calls, some ‘hard choices,’ some of which have worked, some of which have not.” Hillary Clinton
Comments: I am not trying to pick on poor Hillary but it is just so easy. This was her response to a question from a recent Diane Sawyer interview when asked the following question: “When people say ‘Where is the marquee achievement?’…’no sweeping agreements,’ ‘no signature doctrine’…?” Given Hillary’s answer, it is pretty obvious that she falls in the same category of most Americans, she and the rest of us are unable to name a signature State Department or international success story on the international stage under her watch.
While Secretary of State:
- She failed to anticipate the onset and the ramifications of the Arab Spring.
- She failed to anticipate the radical changes that have ripped apart Egypt since the Arab Spring.
- She failed to get the Iranian and North Korean nuclear weapons programs under control.
- She failed to keep Russia from antagonizing its neighbors.
- She failed to get the Israelis and Palestinians to play nice with each other.
- She failed to run a tight organization with many scandals erupting including but not limited the unaccounted loss of $6 billion in taxpayer wealth, security lapses, and other embarrassments.
- She failed to protect our people and our physical property at Benghazi despite repeated warnings that there were serious security lapses.
- She staffed key ambassadorships around the world with Demcoratic fund raisers and not experienced State Department employees.
5) Quote: “We’re Leaving Behind a Sovereign, Stable and Self-Reliant Iraq” Barack Obama
Subquote: “Iraq is “one of the greatest achievements of this administration.” Joe Biden
Comments: Not quite sure either of these boasts stand up to scrutiny today, given the disaster that is ripping Iraq apart. I know that some readers will blame bush for what is going on there now. Fine, I get that.
But if Obama and Biden are gong to gloat and boast about what a fine job they did there just three short years ago and take credit for the myth that they left behind a “stable and self-reliant Iraq,” they need to be taken to task for the disastrous reality that they truly left behind. This reality is unfolding today in a massive refugee problem, unspeakable violence and the most unlikely scenario where the U.S. would actually welcome Iranian help in this matter.
If you want the credit when it looks good, you have to take the blame when it goes sour. Thus, these quotes and the myth they support, that Obama and Biden fixed Iraq so well that they deserve credit, is now trashed in less than three years.
That will do it for today, One more set of myth busting via politicians' quotes tomorrow. Tomorrow is a special treat since we will be focusing on our favorite political quote machine of all time, Nancy Pelosi.
She has been busy spouting off all kinds of gibberish lately, gibberish that would be hilarious if she did not hold an important position within the Federal government. That fact makes these quotes, that are not of our reality, and her views and myths all the more dangerous and logic defying.
Tomorrow we will discuss some steps that need to be taken so that we finally get to a point where political myths stop and real work starts and we finally find a way to get rid of the current set of politicians in Washington and their inane comments and overall idiocy.
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