Sunday, August 24, 2014

BloggeRhythms

Maureen Dowd wrote one of the best analyses of the incumbent’s current job performance to date than any seen in a very long time in her Op-ed column in The New York Times this morning. The sarcastic piece is titled, “The Golf Address.”
 
Ms Dowd lists several of the nation’s problems in a paragraph, as follows: “ISIL brutally killing hostages because we won’t pay ransoms, rumbles of coups with our puppets in Iraq and Afghanistan, the racial caldron in Ferguson, the Ebola outbreak, the Putin freakout — there’s enough awful stuff going on to give anyone the yips.”
 
Written from the incumbent’s perspective, it begins, “FORE! Score? And seven trillion rounds ago, our forecaddies brought forth on this continent a new playground, conceived by Robert Trent Jones, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal when it comes to spending as much time on the links as possible — even when it seems totally inappropriate, like moments after making a solemn statement condemning the grisly murder of a 40-year-old American journalist beheaded by ISIL.
 
I know reporters didn’t get a chance to ask questions, but I had to bounce. I had a 1 p.m. tee time at Vineyard Golf Club with Alonzo Mourning and a part-owner of the Boston Celtics. Hillary and I agreed when we partied with Vernon Jordan up here, hanging out with celebrities and rich folks is fun.”
 
The article’s brilliant and well-worth reading, so here’s a link: 'SO HELP ME GOLF'
 
Regarding the shooting in Ferguson, Mo., Andrew Johnson addressed the issue in The Corner in National Review Online by quoting Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke.
 
Sherriff Clarke believes that, “Attorney general Eric Holder and Missouri Democratic leaders need to apologize to the law-enforcement community for impugning officers’ motives in light of the unrest in Ferguson, Mo.” And also that, Holder, Governor Jay Nixon, and Senator Claire McCaskill made the situation in Ferguson worse with their “irresponsible, inflammatory” comments about the city’s police force and its supposed problem with race relations.”
 
The sheriff “argued on Fox News on Friday that the trio was “insinuating that our law-enforcement officers across the United States engage in some nefarious or systematic and cultural attempts to violate people’s civil rights. I thought that was a slap in the face to every law-enforcement officer in America who puts on the badge and the uniform everyday to go out and risk their lives in service to their community.”
 
Clarke, a black man himself, “specifically called on Holder to either further explain himself or apologize to law enforcement for “adding hot sauce to this volatile situation.”
 
So, here we have another case where the administration’s first reaction is to politicize a situation before learning the facts involved or the actual circumstances. But even worse, by bringing the weight of the Attorney General and the Justice Department, along with that of the White House to bear, the chances for the office involved to receive fair legal treatment is all but impossible now.
 
And although the purpose of presenting the status of the case isn’t an attempt to side with law enforcement, but rather to advance the premise that the determination should be made through proper channels of the legal system, due to the heavy-handedness of the administration the public will likely never know the real truth of the matter. Which in itself is criminal. 
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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