The Ol' Fat Guy Blathers On

Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address The White House ​July 16, 2016 [Today, let's start with the "I" count.... like those 46 times I used the word 'I' during my Dallas Memorial blather... So wait until the afternoon to read this and take a drink each time there's an 'I' in the text!!  Great fun!!] Hi, everybody.  It’s been a challenging couple weeks.  The shootings in Minnesota and Baton Rouge; the protests; the targeting and murder of police officers in Dallas – it’s left all of us struggling to make sense of things at times.  Now, I know that for many, it can feel like the deepest fault lines of our democracy have suddenly been exposed, and even widened.   But the America I know – the America I saw this week – is just not as divided as some folks try to insist.  I saw it on Monday, when I met with law enforcement to talk about the challenges they face, and how too often, we ask our police to do too much – to be social workers, and t...

Lots Of 'Players' Have Awaited The Upheaval     Thus far we've had the Dallas shootings with possible copycat shootings in Ballwin, Mo., in Bristol, Tn., and in Valdosta, Ga.  The Dallas attack was against the very officers assigned to protect a permitted 'blacklivesmatter' protest event. The Dallas shooter told negotiators that he wanted to shoot white people.  This quote from Dallas Police Chief, David Brown : “He said he was upset about the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people the suspect said he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers.” These horrendous acts seem to be mostly perpetrated by individuals/groups closely aligned with or sympathic toward the blacklivesmatter movement, as well as the movement itself.     While these horrible shootings~ related or not ~indicate a continuing shift toward radical leftist violence, the mindset that really got it's start some 50+years ago with Lyndon Johnson...