Don’t let the talking heads cast your vote for president

Don’t let the media do your thinking for you, that’s what the government has done for the past eight years.

Don’t let the talking heads cast your vote for president

While the juvenile FoxNews/Google debate was underway last night, this is what was going down in the enemy camp, where President Barack Obama made his final address to the House Democratic Caucus retreat as president.

“Democrats will win in November and we will have a Democratic president succeed me,” he said.

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“On a night where much of the media’s attention is focused on Donald Trump’s refusal to participate in the GOP debate in Iowa, Obama referenced the Republican front-runner when making his case for a multilateral foreign policy: “We’re not going to strengthen our leadership around the world by allowing politicians to insult Muslims or pit groups of Americans against each other,” he said.

That’s just, as it were, what the Fox/Google debate was saying in fielding the question of Muslim activist Nabela Noor to GOP hopefuls.

Here’s the word-by-word question posed by Chris Wallace:

“WALLACE: We have another question from one of Youtube’s top creators. Here it is. (New York Times—Full Debate Transcript, Jan. 29, 2016)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/us/politics/republican-presidential-debate-transcript.html

“QUESTION: I’m Nabela Noor. I’m a Muslim American born and raised in the U.S. who creates beauty and lifestyle videos on Youtube.

“In 2015, the number of hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S. has tripled, and on social media, where I spend a lot of time, I’ve seen many attacks directed towards fellow Muslims. This culture of hatred is only driving ISIS to radicalize, recruit and incite violence.

“As president, what would you do to address this toxic climate and promote increased tolerance in the United States?

“WALLACE: Governor Bush, how do you answer Nabela?

“BUSH: Well first of all, I think it’s important that when we’re running for the highest office in the land that we recognize that we’re living in dangerous times and we have to be serious about it, that our words have consequences.

“Donald Trump, for example — I’m glad — I mentioned his name again just if anybody was missing him… (LAUGHTER)

“BUSH: ... Mr. Trump believed that in reaction to people’s fears that we should ban all Muslims. Well, that creates an environment that’s toxic in our own country. Nobela (ph) is a rising entrepreneur. She wants to pursue the American dream. She’s an American citizen. She should not feel uncomfortable about her citizenship. She’s not the threat. The threat is Islamic terrorism.

“We need to focus our energies there, not these broad, blanket, kind of statements that will make it harder for us to deal with ISIS. We need to deal with ISIS in the caliphate. We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can’t do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they’re as threatened as we are.

“So, I think it’s important for us to be careful about the language we use, which is why “I’ve been critical of Donald Trump. Disparaging women, disparaging hispanics, that’s not a sign of strength. Making fun of disabled people…”

The 2016 presidential election race has gone from soap opera to circus.

Fox News and Google invited three YouTube ‘personalities’ to ask questions at the Jan. 28 GOP debate — including a Muslim advocate who describes Donald Trump as a bigot and who visually portrayed him as being in agreement with national socialist Adolf Hitler.

They did not invite any everyday war veterans, the loved ones of any of the innocent people killed by terrorist attacks like the most recent one at San Bernardino.

And today FoxNews is still whinging about the absence of Donald J. Trump from their pre-arranged cage match.

Meanwhile, the sound of the clock’s ticking has surpassed the sound of crickets in the 2016 presidential race.

If anybody’s still taking notes, Obama’s sending word out to his camp:  “I want to spend every moment from now till January 20th, 2017 working hard to protect your legacy.”

Obama’s hinting that despite the current contentious race on the Democratic side between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders he was “not worried about this party sticking together” and “I can’t say that for the other side.”

For the sake of the survival of the Republic, it’s time to tune out all sounds of talking heads, high time to skip the flickering images coming at you from ratings obsessed Fox News.

Survival of the West means getting the grifter Obamas out of the White House, and cutting the Democrats off at the pass by shutting the door on Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders or any other progressive Democrat from carrying on the Obama legacy by winning the presidency.

Bill O’Reilly’s 17 Trump-owed milkshakes, Megyn Kelly’s alleged set-up traps for Trump which didn’t get a chance to play out when Trump had his own live stream solo debate raising money for the vets,  are wasting everybody’s time.  Everybody, that is, who cares that America is still under the control of a president who hates it.

The 2016 presidential election race has gone from soap opera to circus.

Don’t let the media do your thinking for you, that’s what the government has done for the past eight years.

Judi McLeod