{"id":165,"date":"2014-08-19T18:38:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T23:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howamich.wwwaz1-ss8.a2hosted.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2014-09-23T07:37:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T12:37:42","slug":"isnt-it-about-time-folks-like-boehner-found-someone-else-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Isn’t It About Time Folks Like Boehner Found Someone Else To Blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am so sick of all the Obama bashing, starting with the second term campaign through today.<\/p>\n

During the campaign, I actually lost a friend who would not agree to stop sending me his Obama bashing emails. I pleaded with him several times, simply requesting he stop sending me his propaganda, my word, about Obama. This was his reply: “I’m sorry you don’t have a desire for truth (other than the truth according to Donnie (sic)). If you choose to drown in ignorance, I will not cast you a line. (Actually, I would, because that’s the way I am\u2026” And, even though he declared this would be his last email on the subject he continued. Ultimately, I chose to disallow his email address (yes, that’s possible) from reaching me. I’ve never heard from him again. Not even after the election. I just have a difficult time believing a friend would choose to continue flooding (my word, again) me with his bullshit than accept my request to stop. The Universe always comes around in whatever way is best for the individual. I’m accepting in this case, the best for me was to allow the friendship to dissipate.<\/span><\/p>\n

I continue to see on Facebook and other social media venues folks I know and otherwise like, bashing the President over many of his decisions. Many times, those decisions have held up on closer scrutiny.<\/p>\n

For months and months folks in the media and elsewhere continued their speculations and to insist the Obama Administration was responsible for gross misconduct regarding Benghazi. On August 4, 2014 the House Intelligence\u00a0committee\u00a0cleared the Obama administration of any wrong doing. “Just so we’re clear, this is a Repuplican-led committee with GOP members outnumbering Democrats, 12 to 9.” See:\u00a0http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/yet-another-setback-benghazi-conspiracy-theorists-0<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, after the Benghazi situation, there was the Bergdahl affair. All the naysayers were up in arms over the President’s actions of freeing prisoners in return for Bergdahl’s release. One of the better pieces I read in that regard says:\u00a0“And Bergdahl has neither admitted his guilt nor proclaimed his innocence as yet. There\u2019s been no Article 32 hearing, no trial, no court-martial. The military and the intelligence agencies haven\u2019t even begun his debriefing. All we know for certain is that an American soldier was taken captive by the enemy, held for years, and returned as part of a prisoner exchange. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s what we know. We don\u2019t know what events led to his capture, not all of them, not yet. We don\u2019t know the details of his captivity. We don\u2019t know the particulars of his release beyond the broad details that have been published in the press.” \u00a0From the same article:\u00a0“Last time I checked, the punishment specified for violation of UCMJ Article 85 (or Article 86 depending on Bergdahl\u2019s intentions) isn\u2019t to throw him to our enemies!”\u00a0<\/span>See this article:\u00a0http:\/\/aattp.org\/negotiating-with-terrorists-bowe-bergdahl\/<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Need more proof of President Obama’s successes while in office? How about an increase in jobs since he took office? Gathered from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, you can see it here:\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jobs_created_during_U.S._presidential_terms<\/a><\/p>\n

How about changes in the stock market under our last several Presidents:<\/p>\n

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  1. President Ronald Regan: “Equities climbed 54 percent during his terms in office.”<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. President George Herbert Walker Bush: “\u2026equities still managed to climb nearly 30 percent during his term\u2026”<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. President Bill Clinton: “Equities climbed nearly 150 percent during the Clinton Administration.”<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. President George W. Bush: “Equities fell 46 percent during the Bush Administration, largely thanks to the financial crisis.”<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. President Barack Obama: “Through the beginning of August, equities have climbed about 78 percent.”<\/span><\/span>Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/wallstcheatsheet.com\/stocks\/presidential-stock-market-scorecards-reagan-to-obama.html\/?a=viewall#ixzz3AprTEQJN<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    \u00a9 Donny Hornstein<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Will someone then please explain to me, like I’m three-years-old, so I can understand, why this irrational behavior by the Republicans and Tea Party continues?<\/p>\n

    Here’s what I make up about this. Many of the folks who continue bashing Obama, whether it’s someone like John Boehner, Ted Cruz or just someone I know on Facebook, are really closet racists. Read that again. Pay attention to me saying it’s just my opinion. I often wonder if someone Jewish, like Joe Lieberman, or a woman such as Hillary Clinton were to get elected if the bashing would be just as widespread is it is with Mr. Obama. In all honesty, I don’t know; but it is sad to believe it would be.<\/p>\n

    Have we as a society grown no further than to believe if a minority person enters the White House he or she is open to any and all public ridicule? Have we actually lost all respect for the position of President?<\/p>\n

    I have to admit, it’s been a cultural shock, not insurmountable, but nonetheless a shock, to see the First Lady reading an award on the Academy Awards. Or see a cameo of the President in a commercial feature film. The times they are a changin’. However, even with that \u00a0my judgment is the folks who refuse to give Obama an even break should look in the mirror and ask why they feel so compelled to continue bashing the man. Please.<\/p>\n

    If you intend to comment on this post, and I encourage you to do so, please, please do your research to back your statements. Post links, not from opinionated blogs, but from real news sources to back your position. If you don’t it’s just more fodder to add to the pile.<\/p>\n

    How Am\u00a0I\u00a0Changing:\u00a0<\/strong>Sometimes I want\u00a0to give a voice to my reactions over things which continue to annoy me. This is one of those sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I am so sick of all the Obama bashing, starting with the second term campaign through today. During the campaign, I actually lost a friend who would not agree to stop sending me his Obama bashing emails. I pleaded with him several times, simply requesting he stop sending me his propaganda, my word, about Obama. … Continue reading “Isn’t It About Time Folks Like Boehner Found Someone Else To Blame?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,71,73,75,68,69,76,74,70],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-benghazi","tag-bergdahl","tag-boehner","tag-economy","tag-obama","tag-obama-bashing","tag-presidential-policy","tag-racists","tag-stock-market"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howamichanging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}