Which is better: The Pretty Lies
of the Obama Era or the Ugly Truth of the Trump Era?
This is a question I stumbled
upon one day when surfing facebook. Talk
about a loaded question. How would you
answer it?
I would have to start with Donald
Trump, who has lied so many times that there are actual organizations counting
his false statements. According to the
Washington Post, Trump has made 8,718 false or misleading claims in 759 days.[1]
Trump isn’t the first president to
lie or mislead the public, and he certainly won’t be the last. Except U.S. Presidents have historically stopped
communication on a particular subject once aware of the truth (or a new piece of
information), but not Trump. Even when faced with evidence on the contrary,
he’ll stand his ground and wage his innocence and blame any misfortune on
others.
When we investigate this
question of lies or truth further, “In his first 10 months in office, he
(Trump) has told 103 separate untruths, many of which repeatedly. Obama told 18 his entire eight-year
tenure. That’s an average of about two a
year for Obama and about 124 a year for Trump,” according to the New York
Times.[2]
Trump is also known as the most open
racist man to ever hold the office. Which
brings me to Obama – why is it that Trumper’s are constantly comparing Trump to
Obama? When I see questions like these arise on social media, I have to wonder
if they are racially motivated to begin with.
I mean, if I was to compare
Trump to any president, it would be G.W. Bush.
Bush’s ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction,’ has got to top the list of the
biggest falsehoods of all. We basically went to war over absolutely nothing. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and they
damn sure didn’t have any WMD’S.
Imagine all the lives lost over that lie; we’re talking about hundreds
of thousands of lives lost. In comparison,
when counting the lost of life, G.W. has Trump looking like a saint at this
point.
But no, you Trump supporters are
always calling out Obama, the black man.
And to further the racist agenda, you complain about the southern border
(brown man) with no regard what-so-ever to the northern (white man) border –
what, like you don’t think a terrorist is smart enough to fly to Canada to
cross into America? Or like Canadian’s
don’t do drugs?
And before you go pegging me as
a Liberal Democrat, I’ll have you know that I did not vote for Obama either
time. But my reservations with Obama had
nothing to do with the color of his skin or the origins of his last name. To me he was a weak person, and it showed. To me, he was the puppet president, and he
most certainly had his embarrassments as well.
Like NDAA.
It was Obama, who use to teach
Constitutional Law, and swore to defend the Constitution of the United States, who
signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. This law, which is resigned every year as
part of the military budget, authorizing the military to arrest and detain
anyone suspected of being a terrorist
indefinitely, without a trial, including American
citizens. It is a direct violation of
Amendment V and XIV of the U.S. Constitution (your right to a trial; a speedy
trial). Yet the courts cannot rule on NDAA,
if you’re being held indefinitely without a trial to begin with. No trial, no ruling. You become imprisoned for the rest of your
life without any defense.
So when asked if I prefer the
pretty lies of the Obama administration , or the ugly truth of the Trump era, I
would have to say they are one in the same, only one has more class than the
other.
[1]
The Washington Post, February 17, 2019. www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/
[2]
The New York Times, by David Leonhardt, Ian Prasad Philbrick and Stuart A.
Thompson, December 14, 2017, “Trump Lies vs. Obama’s.” Retrieved Feb 22, 2019. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/14/opinion/sunday/trump-lies-obama-who-is-worse.html
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