Thursday, November 07, 2013

About that visit Barack just completed

Yesterday, there was an event that put stress on a number of people.  I wasn't surprised to learn that one of them was a wife.  I was surprised to learn that she had objected and been dismissed.

Dallas, Texas is a city with as many kind and caring people as any other city in the country.

It's also where, 50 years ago, JFK was assassinated.

There were attempts to assassinate Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.  They effected the national psyche less because both men survived.

The wife objecting to an event?

First Lady Michelle Obama.

I don't blame her a bit.


Barack arrived safely at the White House at midnight.  He's back in DC.  If he wasn't, I probably wouldn't be writing this.

At a party last night, I mentioned to an administration official that I was really mad all day because of Barack's visit to Dallas which is when I heard Michelle hit the roof about it.

Again, I don't blame her for being mad.

I'm no fan of Barack's but even I spent yesterday in fear for him.

Again, this is not an attack on Dallas, Texas.

But we're all aware of copycat killers and it is the 50th anniversary of when JFK was shot dead in Dallas.  That's assassination was not about location, it was about a plot to murder.  I repeat that because this is not slam piece on a city.  It's not a 'Don't you ever visit Dallas! It's a dangerous place!'

But to go on the anniversary?

That's dangerous and stupid.

He was there for a fundraiser.  Texas can't offer Democrats the state in a national election (maybe someday but not now).  It's a Republican dominated state.  That's not an insult to Texas, that doesn't make it less important to the US or 'bad' in any way.  We're not one of those idiotic sites that writes garbage like 'the Republican Party needs to die!'  Texas is a great state and I always enjoy visiting it.  I hope that's clear.

In the month that is the 50th anniversary of the last assassination of a president and when the president was assassinated in Dallas, why would you visit Dallas?  When your First Lady is opposed to it, why would you do it?

Maybe it was bravery?

Maybe it was a rejection of fear?

A refusal to be cowed?

Or maybe it was to hold a nation hostage?

"This will help the poll numbers."

Was that really said in the Oval Office?

Was the real point to make many Americans, even just momentarily, fear for a moment that a repeat of 1963 might happen so that a rallying rush might register in the polls?

If so, that was stupid for polling because it's not going to prompt the desired result.  The only way that impacts polling is if the poll takes place while the President is enroute to Dallas and on the ground there.  Once he's back in DC, the fear factor is gone and there's an anger in it's place for some.  An anger that someone would f**k with the emotions of Americans.

If so, if this was why the visit took place, the White House doesn't look very strong, it looks incredibly desperate as it plans stunts to upset the nation in an attempt to pump up approval ratings.

I know what I was told and I know who told me.  I have no reason to disbelieve it because (a) the person's in the White House, (b) the person's in the know and (c) didn't change the topic when four people walked over having overheard part of our conversation.

But it may just be DC party circut chatter.

That could be.

What is obvious is that it was deeply stupid of the White House, during the 50th anniversary of the assassination of JFK in Dallas, Texas, to allow Barack to visit Dallas.  No amount of money was worth it, it did nothing to help anyone and it probably put a number of people under stress.  If Michelle Obama was stressed?  She has my sympathies.  If she did object, not only do I understand but that makes her the only one in the inner circle with a brain.

It was a stupid thing to do and, if it was done in an attempt to influence polling, it was a cruel things to do.

A part of me stares the iPad and thinks, "Should I publish?"  Yeah.  We're going to because it was cruel of the White House and it doesn't need to happen again -- with this administration or any other.  There needs to be awareness and sensitivity of the scar on the nation from the JFK assassination.



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