By Gary Holder-Winfield
The circus has come to town
...and the clowns have taken over.
I guess that would be fine except these are the clowns that haunt little children’s nightmares. Like them we think to laugh at their funny antics until they spin and reveal that they are not the funny big shoe clown but rather the crazy bug-eyed razor teethed nightmare clown.
Too many of us have acted as if the clowns we see in the media questioning the presidents citizenship, simultaneously calling him a fascist and a socialist (say what?!?), and just all around being disrespectful are harmless.
They are not.
Now we see that as the President is ready to deliver a speech later today on the importance of staying in school and working hard the big top is going full tilt. Bright colors and floppy shoes march in "It’s indoctrination, it’s indoctrination!" The speech transcript is out. There is no danger.
My question is why is there even an issue? When did we ever question president’s motives like this? Well, with "Bigtop Beck" and "Rush LimBozo" a real spectacle is underway. The ringmaster retort to our questions is that George Bush was opposed by the left.
Herein lays the difference. We were vocal vehemently expressing our opposition to President Bush’s policy prescriptions, surely we were. Our voices were raised because we wanted the President to be successful and saw that his choices were taking us off course they are vocal because they want "our" President to fail. To them he is not their President – he could never be.
Moreover, the danger lies in the unspoken lesson. Coupled with the repeated refrain that Barack Obama for some reason (which ever they find today) is not legitimately the President these actors in the circus have sent a message to their children about this President and what respect he is afforded. Unlike what one may imagine the message divorces Barack Obama the man from the presidency. It goes something like this you should respect the office but not Obama. Since when have we split the man from the office like that? The right has gone absolutely apoplectic at the suggestion in the past that there could be that type of split. While I won’t get into the discussions about race that surround this presidency you tell me what the difference is.
The circus has many rings and they can be distracting but we must focus. These clowns cannot be dealt with as if reason rules the day. Like the child’s nightmare if you don’t deal with these clowns early they will return again and again to haunt you. It is time to recognize this circus for what it really is.