rentarainbow's blog

If you don't care about:

- Social Security

- Medicare

- affordable healthcare

- a woman's right to control how her body is used

- mortgage holders who are in default and becoming homeless

I wish to be VERY clear about this: I do NOT like Rush Limbaugh and never have since the first time I heard him. I do not listen to Rush and do not plan to.

But the man has a right to say what he wishes to as long as he does not incite riots or revolution or slander anyone, which is not legally the same as insulting or speaking disparagingly about someone.

I think it is unseemly for the president of the United States to set himself up as a co-equal combatant with a radio talk-show personality. And I think it is un-American to use the power of the presidency to try to silence an exponent of a certain point of view the president does not like.  http://tinyurl.com/cfgc7q

Yes, we have all witnessed the joy Obama's election has brought to African-Americans and black people all over the globe ... and, yes, it was a leap forward.

But I have to wonder WHY some people do not seem to realize what a GIANT leap forward it would have been for women and girls all over the world if we had elected our first female president.

Imagine the joy and uplift it would have given half the world's population -- the women and girls -- if we had demonstrated our respect for women by electing Hillary Clinton, who was and is more qualified by virtue of her experience, skill and integrity than the person who was elected.

Did I say we need to always look for the small print in everything Obama says and/or signs?

Obama is quite adept at sneaking in qualifiers and back-door exits, so that you might THINK he promised one thing when in fact, he has done quite the opposite.

It's more than wiggle room -- it's basic DISHONESTY.

Misleading with the INTENT to DECEIVE is LYING.

Remember all of Obama's sweet talk about NOT hiring LOBBYISTS in his administration?

Well, Obama's been in office for just a week and he's already hired a DOZEN LOBBYISTS.

When ... oh, when ... will the media wake up to the fact they've been duped?

When ... oh, when ... will the Obamatrons wake up to the fact they've been duped?

So. let me get this straight:

In a nation of 300 million people, Obama felt compelled to appoint a tax cheat, Tim Geithner, to be his Treasury Secretary. (Among 300 million people, there was not even ONE other person who could have filled that slot?) Then, tax-cheat Tim Geithner, having declared he would NOT hire any lobbyists,  proceeded to hire as his Deputy Treasury Secretary a Goldman-Sachs LOBBYIST, Mark Patterson   -- and all of this occurred within the FIRST week of the Obama administration. http://tinyurl.com/cywb84

Second outrage:

We do not honor Dr. Martin Luther King's dream if, to avoid being called "racists," we feel required to refrain from judging Barack Obama the same way we would judge any other president -- on his actions, policies and deeds.

Dr. King urged us NOT to judge a person by the color of his skin but by the content of his character.

That is what I do with regard to Barack Obama.

And that is why I have found him so disappointing in so many ways.

Back in 2004, there was the bright promise of a new star in the Democratic Party, but when Obama hit the tough campaign trail against a better-qualified person, Hillary Clinton, he resorted to the most sickening sort of politics.

In the years from President Harry Truman till today, the record shows that of all the presidents (from Truman to Bush), President Bill Clinton was the ONLY president to leave office with a HIGHER approval rating than he had when first inaugurated.

Most presidents saw their approval ratings decline between the day they were first inaugurated and the day they left office. (Pssst, Obama ... pay attention.)

The list of pledges Obama dishonestly campaigned on is growing.

Instead of moping, we are going to have to be the ones who stay alert, and stay strong, in order to BEAR WITNESS during the Obama years we are now confronted with.

I plan to do my best to bear witness in the years ahead.

I stayed alert and around long enough to bear witness to the Bush presidency -- starting back when pundits were telling us how "authentic" Bush was, how comfortable he was in his own skin, and that his manliness made at least a few of them wilt with love (When Bush wore that parachute outfit to land on the aircraft carrier and announce major conflict was over in Iraq, Chris Matthews could not take his eyes off Bush's crotch ... true, even if nauseating.).

One year ago, and just in time to affect Super Tuesday voting on Feb. 5, 2008, Barack Obama  said, during the well-televised Democratic debate on Jan. 15, 2008:

Here's how Obama is going to do it.

Incrementally.

First, Obama invites Rick Warren - the anti-gays, anti-abortion, anti-divorce (even if your husband beats you) preacher -- to give the main prayer at the Inauguration.

Only a few pro-choice people complain, and most say, "Well, it's just one appointment."

Then, Obama appoints Gov. Tim Kaine -- who is anti-gays, anti-abortion, and anti embryonic stem cell research -- to be chairman of the Democratic Party.

Now, a few more complain but not enough to rock Obama's coronation.

Then, some of us notice that Obama has put Tom Daschle in charge of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services -- and we discover Daschle has said multiple times that he is ANTI-abortion.

Any notion that Barack Obama cares a fig about what happens to older people who are retired (and, probably, no longer able to work) is a forlorn hope.

Obama didn't gave a fig about his white grandmother who loved and raised him; he humiliated her and called her "a typical white woman."

Obama's black grandmother still lives in her mud hut in Kenya.

So, if you are a senior (over 65 years old, that is) or have parents who are seniors, you had better get ready for the worst -- because Obama is promising (or threatening might be a better word for it) to join forces with the Republicans who have been yearning and trying for years to destroy Social Security and Medicare.