Obama's Inaugural Speech Was About Ordinary American Families-Not About Republican Politicians In DC
Obama's Inaugural Speech Was About Ordinary American Families, Not About Republican Politicians In DC
Far right congressmen like Steve King (R-IA) found President Obama off-putting
The GOP just doesn't get it. The President fired up the country with an inspiring Inaugural speech filled with hope and promise-- what South Dakota Republican lunkhead John Thune disapprovingly referred to as "30,000-foot stuff." Thune will never understand the kind of speech President Obama gave; that's why he's a Republican. This was a speech for the American people, not for grubby Republican politicians who immediately went into victim mode, whining that Obama didn't offer them any reconciliation. What clowns!
The President-- as guilty as any politician of almost always pandering to the middle class-- offered hope to the millions of American families living in poverty today, if not to multimillionaire right-wing Members of Congress like John McCain (R-AZ- $10.35 million), Michael McCaul (R-TX- $294.21 million), Darrell Issa (R-CA- $220.40 million), Vern Buchanan (R-FL- $44.21 million), Bob Corker (R-TN- $21.18 million) and Mike Kelly (R-PA- $11.90 million). And President Obama became the first president in history to use the Inaugural address to fold millions of gay and lesbian citizens into the Great American Family. I'm surprised none of them had heart attacks when the President said, "We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths-- that all of us are created equal-- is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall." Paying homage to a bunch of Feminazis and runaway slaves is bad enough if you're a Republican but to refer to a mob of transvestites in New York City beating up policemen who had been abusing and exploiting them and thereby getting the whole gay-liberation war rolling... how that must have inflamed cowardly obdurate closet queens like Lindsay Graham (R-SC), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Miss McConnell (R-KY), Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Aaron Schock (R-IL), Dave Camp (R-MI) and the rest. "Our journey," he continued, "is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law." To a fearful Republican like any of the above, these are scary partisan words, red flags and danger signals.
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