Our Dishonest President

The Los Angeles Times printed a cautiously hopeful editorial at the time of dt's inauguration.

Today's editorial says "Still, nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck."

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-ed-our-dishonest-president/#nt=oft02a-2la1

Thank you to this fine newspaper for being the first in the nation to take a strong, 4-part editorial stance on the unprecedented dangers of this presidency.

Here's one quote and the listed topics of the following three editorials:

It is impossible to know where his presidency will lead or how much damage he will do to our nation.

In the days ahead, The Times editorial board will look more closely at the new president, with a special attention to three troubling traits:

1Trump’s shocking lack of respect for those fundamental rules and institutions on which our government is based. 

2

His utter lack of regard for truth. 

3His scary willingness to repeat alt-right conspiracy theories, racist memes and crackpot, out-of-the-mainstream ideas. Again, it is not clear whether he believes them or merely uses them. But to cling to disproven “alternative” facts; to retweet racists; to make unverifiable or false statements about rigged elections and fraudulent voters; to buy into discredited conspiracy theories first floated on fringe websites and in supermarket tabloids — these are all of a piece with the Barack Obama birther claptrap that Trump was peddling years ago and which brought him to political prominence.

Truth at the Prayer Breakfast

Our cultural memory is so short.

We forget many events and people within 10-20 years... If it's one or two hundred years ago, we have even more trouble remembering it happened.

Then there are the events and people we want to forget.  We deliberately keep them out of mind.

President Obama mentioned violence and torture justified by Christians during the Crusades and during the Jim Crow era in the US at yesterday's prayer breakfast in Washington D.C.  He was pointing out that Muslim extremists aren't the only ones who have committed atrocities in the name of God.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-speech-at-prayer-breakfast-called-offensive-to-christians/2015/02/05/6a15a240-ad50-11e4-ad71-7b9eba0f87d6_story.html

Immediately there were critics saying he shouldn't talk about those things. 

Yes, mentioning historical facts we'd rather forget gets you in trouble every time. 

Lynchings?  Burning people at the stake?  Enforcing slavery with guns and whips?  

Thugs in Christian cultures did these things while claiming to act in the name of God.

That's not even including the horrendous things our government has done in supposed defense of our freedom or for national security.

Thank you, President Obama, for being a truth teller.

May no prisoner detained by the US ever be tortured again.  

May napalm never be dropped on soldiers and civilians again.  

May the leader of another country never again be assassinated by agents paid by the US.