Everyone has his limit, and I reached mine about one year ago. Although hypocrisy in politics is as common as mosquitoes in summer, the buzzing had started to drive me crazy. I was tolerating, although barely, the biracial president who thought he was exclusively black. Then along came the disingenuous African American United States Attorney General, droning on about America’s racial cowardice. Twenty-ten had become 1984; two plus two equaled anything other than four. Rather than tear the hair from my knobby noggin, I resolved to use intellectualization to force the mosquitoes to buzz off. The result was my book: Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama, Identity, and Racial Hypocrisy in America: Double Standards, Double Speak, and Double Binds.
It took until today for me to decide that I also need to start a blog. That revelation came while I was driving along blissfully oblivious of Barack and his Obamafuscations. Then Mara Liasson, a political correspondent for National Public Radio, introduced her commentary by stating that for the first time in our nation's history, the Speaker of the House had denied the President's request to hold a joint session of Congress next Wednesday. More media double standards and double speak. What Ms. Liasson failed to add was that it also was the first time in our nation's history that a president deliberately chose to have his address to the nation on the very day and at the very time previously reserved for a much anticipated debate among the Republican presidential candidates.
Of course, Presidential Press Secretary Jay Carney covered for Barack Obama saying, “It is coincidental. There are a lot of factors that go into scheduling a Joint Session of Congress for a speech. You can never find a perfect time.”
Just a coincidence? I guess no one in the White House spends much time thinking about when and how the President will conduct his televised image and identity marketing.
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