{"id":136,"date":"2011-05-01T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:32:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T02:32:17","slug":"and-in-other-stupid-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/05\/01\/and-in-other-stupid-news\/","title":{"rendered":"And in other stupid news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it me?<\/p>\n<p>Obama released his birth certificate. Big deal! It would have been more useful for him to have done this what? 2 years ago? That simple action would have avoided the whole birther stupidity.<\/p>\n<p>Then we have the ongoing Trump fiasco. First he&#8217;s claiming victory for forcing Obama to release his Birth Certificate. Now he&#8217;s being accused of racism because he made comment about Obamas grades not being high enough to get into Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>So for me, the question is; Were Obamas grades good enough? If we pulled other entrance grades from Obamas sophomore class at Harvard what would we see? Would his grades be at the middle of a bell curve, at the top or at the bottom? <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">It&#8217;s a legitimate question.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s not a relevant question.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fact of the matter is that <strong>Obama IS THE PRESIDENT!<\/strong> He has been since 2008 and there are a lot of people that need to <strong>GET OVER IT!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying he&#8217;s a good president or a bad one. I&#8217;m personally not impressed. But history will judge if he was good for the country or not.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said all along that it is unrealistic for the American people to expect instant change in our government based solely on the installation of a new president. In his first term Obama cannot be expected to undo decades of bad political decisions.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d actually do well just to understand where those decisions were made, their ramifications, and what to do about them.<\/p>\n<p>It will take a very strong president (Not Obama in my opinion) a full two terms in office to even <strong>BEGIN<\/strong> to steer the country in any direction. And that is predicated on a President even wanting to change the country&#8217;s course.<\/p>\n<p>I am sick and tired of hearing the cry <strong>RACIST<\/strong> whenever someone asks a question that folks of color don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p>Asking a question don&#8217;t make you racist, it makes you curious.<\/p>\n<p>If I were black and asked the same question about Former President Bush would the Racist Label still fit? I think not.<\/p>\n<p>FYI folks. White people don&#8217;t have a lock on racism. The color of your skin doesn&#8217;t make you racist nor does it make you immune FROM being a racist.<\/p>\n<p>Prejudice, discrimination, and hatred directed against someone of a different race makes you a racist. And you know what? That sword cuts both ways&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So how about we stop all this stupidity, let the President finish out his term and in 2012, <strong>We The People<\/strong> will again decide who our leader will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it me? Obama released his birth certificate. Big deal! It would have been more useful for him to have done this what? 2 years ago? That simple action would have avoided the whole birther stupidity. Then we have the ongoing Trump fiasco. First he&#8217;s claiming victory for forcing Obama to release his Birth Certificate. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/05\/01\/and-in-other-stupid-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And in other stupid news&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10418,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/10418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}