Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The President's priorities and the far-right's propaganda war.

I heard the dumbest thing following the President's address to the nation regarding Syria.  A news reporter asked different people what they thought about action over Syria, and this person responded by suggesting that Congress and the President focus on more important issues.

Guess what that issue was.  Go ahead, take a wild guess.  I'll wait.

You might think it would be the debt ceiling.  Maybe job growth.  Maybe even the IRS, even though that story is pretty much disproven and dead.  None of that.

Nope, none of those things were on the mind of this interviewed person.  The issue that this person wanted Obama to place over gassed Syrians, was the defunding of Obamacare.

Now, I normally give people the benefit of the doubt that, absent information, they're just being manipulated.  But if you actually believe that the President would contemplate defunding Obamacare after all of the political capital he spent building it, the problem here is you.  Asking the President to choose between Syria and defunding Obamacare is an explicit oxymoron.

But then again, humanity was never the human race's highest priority.

Just profit margins.

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