Let's pretend that President Bush had two members on his staff that we rarely heard from. One day, one of them calls the leader of Iran a "monster" and tries to get it taken off the record and another member of his staff says horrible, derogatory, racist things about blacks, people from the Middle East, and declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks. Both of them are on his payroll. Within a day, the public would demand their heads and I would be more than willing to lead the charge! The fact is, we would want Bush to fire these idiots for their actions.
Now why are we, the same group of pissed-off liberal-minded people, holding a double-standard for Obama and almost letting it slide?
For the "monster" comment. The remark was made "off the record" by a staffer, but the first rule when it comes to reporters is "There is no such thing as off the record". I did an interview a year ago when I ran for mayor for the Philadelphia Metro. Although we talked as friends for a while, the stuff that was "off the record" was printed. I didn't mind since everything I said was 100% professional and related positively to my campaign. That's the trick.
This staffer for Obama made a mistake, but instead of her stepping down, Obama, the man who wants to be our Commander in Chief, the man we want to LEAD us, should have FIRED HER! No if, ands, or buts about it, she should have been FIRED!
Now, we have his pastors videos coming out. For months, conservatives have pointed out that Obama's pastor was a racist, in my opinion up there with the bastards at Stormfront.org. But now we've all learned one major factor that didn't make this as moot as many thought; HE WAS ON OBAMA'S PAYROLL! He was a MEMBER OF OBAMA'S STAFF!!!!!
OK, Obama, shut up. Please, shut up! I don't want to hear this "He's a good friend, he inspired me" crap from you! Not you! Your the man who is preaching "hope" and "change", that you won't have "business as usual" once your elected. Yet, one of your own staff members is a violent extreme RACIST who has publicly gone out of his way to insult and defame non-blacks in a way that would make any civil rights leader cringe... No!
Obama, this man was on YOUR STAFF! He was on YOUR PAYROLL! If ANYONE deserved to be fired, it was HIM! Can anyone honestly say that if you've been to the church of a preacher for at least a year, it's safe to say that at least once he would have heard something similar to that! You can't lie and say that you never knew, you had to! The man has been saying this crap since 2001! Ignorance, Obama, is not bliss and the charisma you have will NOT protect you anymore!
When you are running for public office, your campaign is, in essence, the best possible reflection of what will happen once you arrive in office. It isn't a perfect reflection, but it is an indication, if nothing else, of what may very well be the results of you being in that office. Mr. Barak Hussein Obama, a man who I at least respected to this day (despite the fact I would not vote for him) has LOST even that. Senator, if you WILL NOT take the actions needed to when a staff member should be fired, and simply appear to "hope" that they will resign... Senator, that is a problem!
This shows he is not able to make tough decisions! It shows that, no, he can not do what will be needed when it needs to be done! He is not running for president, he is simply running on political theory for a campaign. These may be rookie mistakes to a degree, but the severity of the pastor, who is on his payroll, not being fired... how, how is that different than Bush not firing Karl Rove and waiting for him to resign? How is it any better? It really isn't. The severity of the two is different, admittedly, but it shows that neither man did what was needed in terms of disciplining his staff.
We don't need that again.
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