From the Other Side of the Edge….
The “Cry Baby”-in-Chief….
By Joe Facinoli 

So,….he finally lost one.     

But I guess that 158 to one, just ain’t quite good enough for our President, now is it?     

Of the people, by the people, and for the people,….eh??   Not so fast there  “Constitution Lips”, that’s only if it’s  HIS way, thank you very much.   

Yeah, the Prez lost a big one last week, and man, is he ever a poor loser!!   

You’d have thought that someone had gone and cut up all his favorite blue ties, bent all his Calloway golf clubs in half, and made him eat extra helpings of his non-cooking wife’s spinach and beets, because he hadn’t taken the trash out on the right day, for all the cryin’ and whinin’, and finger pointin’ and such, all goin’ on in the Rose Garden the other day !!  

Wow!   And I thought little kids complainin’, cuz they didn’t get what they wanted for their birthdays, were ungrateful and aggravating !!   Man!

And he had lots of help, too.   There was the trusted V.P., the point man on the failed Gun Control legislation in question (that was a bright choice).   

And all the major Democrat players from Congress, all pushin’ and shovin’ to be in the right place in the video footage of this cry fest, and fightin’ to be sure they had the biggest frown, and most mournful look of consternation.   

As well as the now sad and familiar lineup of recent shooting victims, and the parents of same.   That really pushes all limits of incredulity, every time, but here, it’s just obscene the way he uses them.  

So, how does a dose of reality feel, Mr. President??    THIS is what the majority of Americans feels like, every  single  day, Mr. President!   How’s this one going down??  

Not that we, he, nor anyone would actually know about this majority, given the extended White House press rooms over at CNN, ABC, CBS, etc, etc, et al.    Nor from any of the hundreds of polls taken every day (you ever been called for one of these?....me neither), and then used for whatever purpose of the moment, that comes a-callin’.   

The President used phrases like:  “90% of Americans” supported this “compromise legislation” on guns, and that “moderation” should be the best course of action on this divisive national topic.   

He also talked about the “common sense values” of this proposed law, and that this bill represented significant “progress” towards a “common sense” (he likes that one) solution to the terrible, terrible gun problem in this country. 

Not mentioning, of course, in all those serious words, that teeny little thing, ….called a lack of Constitutionality.  

He was pulling out all the stops, too, and pointing those fingers at whomever had dared to cross him on this one.   Even as his many bitter untruths, along with the venomous nature of those well-worn words and phrases, slowly began to wilt those lovely red roses and yellow daffodils, so prominent and plentiful, right there in the nation’s most famous garden.   

And threatening all manner of carnage, he was, on the re-election bids of those opposing him on this, and saying it all with the meanest, most disgusted face he could muster, putting to the test all of his best acting skills, which for him, are considerable.   

But the word that he used, that set me off the most, and was at once the most ridiculous, was when he looked out over his stunned and melancholy mass of supporters (and also the folks in that crowd who were not from the press, as well), and said:   “This was a pretty shameful day in Washington”.  

“Shameful” ???!!!!!??     

Talk about the Pot calling the Kettle…..well….something.   

(political correctness does not allow the finishing of that old saying anymore, and I sure don’t want anyone using that card on me.  Where’s Doc Ben Carson when you need him!??).   

Is it simply too much to ask, if he’s been paying any attentionfor the last four years, or so?   Yeah, probably.   So, let me help out a little here, with some perspective, and a bit of my own “common sense”.   

What YOU have done to Washington, and to this country, Mr. President, and to the rights and lives of ordinary citizens everywhere, throughout every corner of our once great Land, and within every group, ethnicity, and culture found here,………THAT…is what is “Shameful”,  Mr. President.  

And another phrase shot right to the nerve endings, too.    He lashed out at the “….Intense Minority of gun owners”.   

What are you accusing us of, Mr. President??   Just what, and who, do you think we are?  And what intentions do you think we harbor???   As a group, OR individually?? 

You have no idea, sir, just how many voting Americans make up that “intense minority”.   So don’t overplay your hand,….again.   We’ve seen what that gets you.   

We are not at odds with anyone.   We just want our government to honor and respect our Constitutional rights.   Those were not given, nor granted to us, by the way, by anyone, nor anything.   But have ALWAYS been there, since the beginning of time, and of man.   Even before the IRS did their first audit.    

What has happened to a several dozen, or maybe hundreds, of innocent victims, and to several thousand affected by these tragic events of recent days and years, should only motivate those in positions of power, to do a better job with the more than sufficient tools they have been given to slow down all of this nonsense, if not stop it entirely.    Use the current laws already on the books, only this time, try something new:  enforce them! 

These events should never be seen as opportunities to take away even more rights from the people, and to accuse them of being, or doing, something which is wholly legal, Constitutional,…..and right.     But that’s what’s happening.   

T.J. once said:   “Every difference of opinion, is not a difference in principle.” 

We ALL want our kids to be safe.   We ALL want to be able to move about, and to live our lives without worry nor concern for our personal safety.  

But being more restrictive, and limiting those same rights, which were designed to insure that safety, is not the answer.    And then centralizing power within the federal government, while allowing criminals and law breakers to virtually do as they please, with a weakened, exposed, and unarmed American public, goes in exactly the opposite direction of achieving the goals which we ALL seek. 

Sit Down, Mr. President.    Whining doesn’t become you.   

Understand that the true power of the people is stronger, and more real, than any false and self-serving ideology that you want so desperately to shove down our throats.  

Soak this in, Mr. President.   Get used to this feeling.   

It won’t be the last time you have the pleasure.   

Joe Facinoli

(Joe can be reached at:  joefacinoli@gmail.com )

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