I am not entirely sure how I manage this, but it seems that every time I write for this blog, it’s about a frustration, or outright infuriation, with the current state of American politics. It seems that every time we reach the end of a slanderous skirmish between the two major partisan parties that control our government, another one starts up almost immediately. Whereas in the past it may have taken a few days, we now see news sources putting out stories mere minutes after they occur, thanks to new technology. Now I know I seem a bit one sided in this blog, but if I do, it’s only because I’m more frustrated with one side of this civil war. Between voter suppression, the blatant lies which serve only to defame an otherwise average presidency, and the deplorable, dishonest practice of disagreeing with the president, only to then claim credit for his achievements or chiding him for being unable to accomplish anything while simultaneously sabotaging his efforts, it’s easy to see why I might be so frustrated with them. This directly leads to the topic of today’s post: Why do we keep seeing Republicans blame Obama for things that are (at least mostly) out of his control?
The somewhat recent incident in Benghazi, where the US consulate was attacked by a mob of protesters killing 4 Americans, including the ambassador to Libya, and a large number of Libyan citizens, was a tragedy. Not only was it a tragedy, it marked the start of an international crisis. With a very serious, sensitive situation on his hands, what President Obama needed least of all was an attack on his method of dealing with international politics. So of course the Republican Candidate Mitt Romney would launch his attack mere hours after the news of the attack was initially reported, before the American populace had even become aware of the situation. During a time of international crisis, the first thing a possible future President of the United States of America could think to do was to insult his opponent. He “fire[d] his gun without aiming”, to quote Mr. Obama.
Of course, in true Mitt Romney fashion, his statement had to be edited, and re-edited, in order to more accurately represent what actually happened, because as has been the case on numerous occasions, Governor Romney had used information that he could not confirm to be completely true in his attack, and had jumped the gun, eager to mar the President’s reputation as much as possible. He gave no thought to needing to appear like he’s organized, intelligent and trustworthy, to appear nuanced in the handling of foreign policy matters, and instead chose to childishly chide a man who held no responsibility for the incident, and I believe that at least some small part of the American population is getting sick of this crap. We want our leaders to be worried about the safety of Americans abroad, not about their political standing at home. We want them to be respectful, and represent us well abroad, not to paint a picture of juvenile absurdity in throwing blame, rather than working to maintain relations and alliances. We want to see less greed and more selflessness, that we might build a “more perfect union.”
I’m really hoping this drives home points I've made in other posts that we need to stop letting fear-mongers and liars dominate American politics, and concentrate on the important things. As is the Romney standard, his information and arguments against the president were full of logical delusions, and any fact checker worth their weight in coal could invalidate his statements. But that still isn't the problem: the problem is that we let this happen. We let people lie to try to maintain their power, or to become elected to positions of greater power than the ones they’re in now. These people lie to our faces, and actively work to bring down our Commander in Chief, just so that they can put themselves in power. I understand that mudslinging has been and always will be a political past-time, but enough is enough. Sabotaging our country for political gain is unethical, immoral and dishonest, and we cannot sit by and allow it to happen.
I know I am not the only person who is sick of watching the Republican party sow the seeds of discontent with our President among the American populace, and wait to reap the rewards of doing so. We've seen them shoot down numerous attempts to fix the recession the entire world as a whole has fallen into, and propose no real solution to fix it. We need to step up, and stop this madness before it consumes us as a country, and the world as a whole. America is a very large part of the global economy, and losing America could well bring about a global depression worse than that of 4 score years ago. As I keep saying: we must get up and do something to stop this, and to fix ourselves what those we have assigned to fix will not.
http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1005-trade/249367-romney-campaign-says-fed-action-reflects-obamas-failure
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/09/13/foreign-policy-dominates-campaign-for-second-day/comment-page-5/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/09/13/time-line-of-cairo-events-reveals-romneys-deeply-flawed-rush-to-judgment/2/
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