This is very good.
Conservatives, in their various iterations, have
accused the President of committing all manner of slights against the
American people and garnered support as well as legitimacy among their
racist supporters because they are inherently ignorant and suspicious of
people of color. They also depend on the preponderance of stupidity and
willful suspension of disbelief at bizarre assertions among a certain
segment of the population to perpetuate the mountain of lies about the
President. Without the overwhelming stupidity and fear of “the other”
rampant among conservatives, racists, and religious fundamentalists, any
one of the lies about the President would be dead before they left a
Republicans’ lying mouth.
For example, Republicans have spent over six years
claiming that Barack Obama is coming for Americans’ guns, and yet there
has been no gun safety legislation passed or absurd “gun confiscations”
during the President’s tenure in the White House. In fact the last gun
control legislation was a ban on assault weapons 20 years ago in spite
of a rash of mass shootings using assault weapons. Still, one sees
myriad polls on websites sponsored by conservative groups and the NRA
asking if Republicans should fight against Obama’s gun seizure crusade.
These claims have not been reserved to the NRA and gun fanatics; Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sent out a letter during his campaign
last year warning Kentucky voters that they need a strong Republican
Senate because Obama was coming for their guns. It has been a six year
accusation and it is time for Republicans, the NRA, and seditious
teabaggers to prove the assault on the 2nd Amendment or shut down the
lies.
Another common charge is that the President has
eviscerated the U.S. Constitution and yet, Republicans cannot produce
one shred of evidence backing up their claim. Oh it is true that nearly
everything Obama does brings the usual charge that he is violating the
Constitution, particularly in issuing executive orders every one of his
white Republican predecessors issued. As a matter of fact, right now
Republicans are threatening to endanger American lives and shut down the
Department of Homeland Security because John Boehner and Ted Cruz claim
the President’s executive action on immigration enforcement is
‘unconstitutional.’ However, according to the Roberts conservative
Supreme Court, the President’s actions are perfectly constitutional; and
that ruling is without citing the precedent set by every Republican
president since Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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