INNUENDO ATTACKS ON OBAMA

My cool talking friend #Joe Scarborough did it again this morning on MSNBC; he uses the back door to attack his enemy’s strengths; thus, he follows the Karl Rove dogma. He provoked a sense of patriotism by saying the “United States” needs “real” leadership to counter #Putin’s moves in the #Ukraine. With a straight face, he followed up this remark by saying “we” need to align our European allies’ behinds us, “we” need to institute strong economic sanctions, and “we” should negotiate from a position of strength. His use of the editorial “we” means that we (all conservatives) would stand united against Putin as Americans if we had proper leadership. To make his point he said #G. H. W. Bush would have sent a tough diplomat like #James Baker to Europe to negotiate; thus, intentionally insulted #Secretary of State Kerry. Of course he was attacking #Obama and not just #Kerry who have not only done all of these things and more and have done them in exemplary fashion. For example, Obama is holding his finger on an economic trigger that he can pull to launch additional and escalating sanctions.

Joe’s performance reminded me of #Redd Foxx, the comedian, when his wife found him in bed with another woman; “Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?”  The sad thing is that there seems to be a number of people who don’t believe their own eyes because of people like Joe Scarborough. Joe presents himself as a well-mannered, well-spoken, neatly dressed reasonable economic conservative who sincerely believes in small government. When he attacks President Obama as he did this morning, people let there guard down and believe his innuendos with out challenge.

It isn’t just the President he is attacking in this way. For those of us who watch "this southern gentleman" with some regularity, we know he lives in a glorified “South. He takes pride in recognizing Southern values without every defining on what issues those values apply. He recognizes and vigorously defends states-rights, without ever saying where he thinks those rights should be exercised or how those rights equate with equality; he would never say he agrees with voter suppression, on the other hand, he supports use of voter ID in the South as being in keeping with nation wide American values; thus the height of patriotism. To display the Flag of the Confederacy is to recall history and not used symbols of something evil and “gone with the wind” following the war of “northern aggression”, most of us know as the Civil War.

Joe is Joe; It is a free country and he has every right to say what he believes but we have every right not to believe him because there is much he implies that should not be believed. He is clever and not a nut case like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or Bob Livingston who target those already hopelessly lost in a mass of lies. His “tricky” approach may sway reasonable people, which makes him an asset to conservatives but that makes him dangerous to people with liberals values, especially those who know Obama is the greatest president we have ever had  judging from his handling of Putin without dropping bombs. I should have mentioned that Joe mentioned under his breath the he also does not like dropping bombs.

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