We even have to blame the likes of FoxNews for the making the most of a crisis atmosphere that has resulted from the tragedy in Tucson. I cannot tell you how many times I heard a Fox reporter or pundit say something like, ‘Do you think he [President Obama] will come out of this service looking better than he did before going in? Will he rise to the occasion?’
Rick will verify that I shouted more than once at the television this week, ‘This is not ‘an occasion’! It is a tragedy the aftermath of which should not involve political posturing, let alone speculation regarding the results of the posturing!’
The tragedy has brought out both the best and the worst of America – with ‘the best’ being the responses, both during and after the shootings, of average Americans, and ‘the worst’ being the posturing being done by much of our ‘leadership’ in Washington and most of those whose charge it is to (supposedly) inform us.
One of the most offensive results of this week is the letter, written by Michelle Obama, that now appears on the White House website, in which she advises American parents regarding how they should talk to their children about the tragedy in Tucson. That letter is offensive on so many levels, a few of which are:
(1) Americans do not need advice from their leaders, let alone their leaders’ wives, on how to counsel or advise their children. And anyone who believes we do is an elitist who considers herself better equipped to tell us how to live our lives than we are to live them by performing our own assessments and making our own choices.
(2) Ms. Obama’s letter constantly makes reference to the fact that ‘the world we live in’ [sic] has much, if not everything, to do with the cause of the tragedy. That attitude reflects the never let a good crisis go to waste philosophy. To the elitists in the White House, we must not blame the tragedy on one unbalanced person, but instead we must seize it as an opportunity to change society so that it conforms to our view of ‘utopia’ (and, in doing so, assert more governmental power over the lives of its citizens).
(3) Ms. Obama advises us to teach our children about the nobility of people who choose a life of ‘public service’. And then she proceeds to describe politicians only who fit in that category. Those putting their lives on the line everyday in Afghanistan and Iraq are simply afterthoughts to this president and his wife. And those who earn (extraordinarily loose interpretation of the term) many times more than the average American, who enjoy perks about which the rest of us can only dream, and who retire with generous pensions, paid for by the American taxpayer, after only a brief career in so-called ‘public service’ are no longer fit to be called ‘public servants’. They are dictators and nest-featherers.
I deeply resent a woman of Michele Obama’s ‘qualifications’ having the audacity to believe that (1) I need her advice about how to react to this tragedy and (2) what is contained in her letter is anything more than elitist drivel.
~ joanie
>>One of the most offensive results of this week is the letter, written by Michelle Obama, that now appears on the White House website, in which she advises American parents regarding how they should talk to their children about the tragedy in Tucson.<<
Was written for people of diminished intelligence.
Check your FReepmail
Sic’em Jf.
A pathetic example of liberal values, this was
a typical democrat “memorial”, complete with
T-shirts, the only thing missing was a ballon drop.
The constant references to the good “citizenship” of
the various victims was enough to make me sick.
Each and every one was an example of American individualism
even the 9 year old girl, who according to Obama would
have probably grown up to be a respectable
Komsomol member.
It was all government, all the time, which is
the basis of the democrat ideology.
Hope you are well.
Tet.
And we used to think nobody could possibly be worse than the Clintons...
Oh joanie, you just have to put people like this into perspective.
From my perspective, they are simply honking donkeys who love the sound of their own bray.
Which would be laughable, except that folks honking this particular bray propose that all alternative brays are to be forbidden.
Which makes them double-idiots.
Or so it seems to me. For what these strange folk propose is that Americans can be "trained out of" being American. And somehow, I think The Other Side has not well considered the sheer enormity of this problem, which faces them directly, of course. For it was they who proposed that America could be progressively improved by destroying the historical and cultural foundations on which she abides and rests.
Which is to say by destroying the historical faith and foundational principles of the American people, which have sustained our Nation through thick and thin for over 230 years now....
In the end, dear sister in Christ, what this all amounts to, in my mind, is: "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
Somehow, I just don't see Americans buying it.
As for Michelle, Ma Belle: Michelle just can't help but be herself: a child of privilege with a very high opinion of herself.
Thank you so much for writing, joanie! It's great to see you!