November 21, 2012--Benghazi
I have tried to ignore Benghazi, seeing it to be a trumped-up political issue being peddled by cranky, old John McCain and one of his amigos--Lindsey Graham. The other amigo, Joe Lieberman, who is about to retire from the Senate, has gone rogue on this one, not backing McCain who clearly thinks Benghazi is another Watergate and his one last best chance to get Barack Obama kicked out of the White House. Via impeachment. Yes, that way.
There is no limit to what these mean-spirited guys will do to take America back from the likes of Obama and, in the Benghazi case, UN ambassador, presumptive Secretary of State nominee, Susan Rice.
And "by the likes of" let me be perfectly clear (to quote the last president who was forced out of the White House)--I mean angry white men who want to expunge people of color from leadership positions. Very much including the very highest ones.
It is ironic, no, that just when ambitious Republicans who experienced a near-death experience Election Day (just two weeks ago) and fear that none from their generation of GOP pols will get to the White House except as invited guests, just as the likes of Bobby Jindal and Sean Hannity (whose Fox ratings are slipping badly) underwent overnight conversions and are now supporting comprehensive immigration reform, reaching out to minority voters, and raising taxes for the top two percent, along comes John McCain fulminating about African-American, Rhodes Scholar Susan Rice.
And chirping on tape in the background is another aging white guy, Mitt Romney, also fulminating about how Barack Obama won the election by giving "expensive gifts" to the young and minorities. Expensive gifts such as student loans and health care.
How tone deaf can they get? Now, rather than talking about the new, big-tent Republican Party they're ranting dismissively and contemptuously about the two most prominent and powerful African Americans in America.
Everyone knows that the Benghazi tragedy was a case of bungling and we should get all those facts out and hold whoever was responsible accountable, including the assassinated ambassador to Libya who should have known better than to put himself and his associates in such a dangerous situation. But to blame Ambassador Rice, who had absolutely nothing to do with any of this, is worse than mean-spirited or misguided.
We know what the issue really is--McCain and the shrinking constituency he represents can't stand the new America which is more and more made up of young people, people of color, and people leading untraditional lives. And, above all, people who are more and more in control of American life. As they should be since they are the majority.
There is no limit to what these mean-spirited guys will do to take America back from the likes of Obama and, in the Benghazi case, UN ambassador, presumptive Secretary of State nominee, Susan Rice.
And "by the likes of" let me be perfectly clear (to quote the last president who was forced out of the White House)--I mean angry white men who want to expunge people of color from leadership positions. Very much including the very highest ones.
It is ironic, no, that just when ambitious Republicans who experienced a near-death experience Election Day (just two weeks ago) and fear that none from their generation of GOP pols will get to the White House except as invited guests, just as the likes of Bobby Jindal and Sean Hannity (whose Fox ratings are slipping badly) underwent overnight conversions and are now supporting comprehensive immigration reform, reaching out to minority voters, and raising taxes for the top two percent, along comes John McCain fulminating about African-American, Rhodes Scholar Susan Rice.
And chirping on tape in the background is another aging white guy, Mitt Romney, also fulminating about how Barack Obama won the election by giving "expensive gifts" to the young and minorities. Expensive gifts such as student loans and health care.
How tone deaf can they get? Now, rather than talking about the new, big-tent Republican Party they're ranting dismissively and contemptuously about the two most prominent and powerful African Americans in America.
Everyone knows that the Benghazi tragedy was a case of bungling and we should get all those facts out and hold whoever was responsible accountable, including the assassinated ambassador to Libya who should have known better than to put himself and his associates in such a dangerous situation. But to blame Ambassador Rice, who had absolutely nothing to do with any of this, is worse than mean-spirited or misguided.
We know what the issue really is--McCain and the shrinking constituency he represents can't stand the new America which is more and more made up of young people, people of color, and people leading untraditional lives. And, above all, people who are more and more in control of American life. As they should be since they are the majority.
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