president obama was quizzed about his smoking habits, and how a government run health insurance bureau would not impede on current for profit health insurance companies.
as is his form, the president spoke in rhetoric which seemed to have come not only from his head but from his heart.
his heartfelt rhetoric continued:
when the president was asked about what he personally felt regarding the human rights of the iranians, and how the government in iran was not listening to its population, and injecting its own non democratic fascist bent, mister obama said he was disturbed when civil rights, human rights and the will of the people are ignored.
but then it is always good press to talk about the lack of human and civil rights in another country. it is actually what bought mister bush (four extra years as he spoke about democracy in iraq and afghanistan), while he whittled away the civil rights of most americans.
non heartfelt rhetoric:
then it happened to the president, came down with the two sided political rhetoric non heartfelt speech, also, the kind of speech where you say one thing on one side of your mouth and on the other side you kind of, sort of, maybe, kind of forget you said it and go ahead and ignore the message you just stated because the will of the majority, the voting majority is MUCH more important than the needs of the minority.
how much longer does the lbgt community have to hear, "we will get to the issues of the homosexual community," "one step at a time, after all the U.S. has so many pressing issues to deal with, the gays are rather selfish in pushing so hard," and civil rights are important for the world, but we need more time to write laws in this country to keep us from ever stopping separate from equal!"
how many times does the president talk about human and civil rights for other countries but only passively acknowledge the rights of people in this country.
and the kicker is that many republicans are telling the president he is soft on the civil rights of the iranians, expressing their disappointment and angst about civil liberties, while if not most of the republicans, have nothing to say about the most human and civil rights of their american constituents. (you know the lbgt crowd). once again, the grass should be greener elsewhere but not at home.
i like president obama, voted for him, but damn, when will he be the president representing all of america. not just the bible totting, fear mongering, hate filled, lemmings who get their news from fox, or the 700 club, or preachers who stand in front of the cross, never realizing who actually died on the cross and what he died for, or orthodox jews who seem to read every word of the 5 books of moses, but quite never understand what the words mean, or the radio spin jocks who love a sarcastic sound byte and recite their own definition of what a real man or a real woman are like, never HAVING, for the most part anything real in their life.
when does something as simple as civil rights for for all become so darn less difficult?
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