President Obama: Enemy of Humanity

[touchofwinter]

Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) in this video refers to our President as "an enemy of humanity". Funny, I don't remember seeing our President in any Monster Manuals. Maybe it was an obscure section of the Fiend Folio - I never got a good handle on that book

Comments

[halfway_back]

Let him call the President whatever he wants. It only seeks to marginalize him & the Republican party and drive moderates & independents away.

I'm sure he'll be getting a call from Senator McCain shortly about that.

[touchofwinter]

I'm sure Senator McCain is going to show up on his doorstep and get all "Goodfellas" on him.

My point is just that this goes beyond attacking the character of our President - it once again reduces him to something less than human. And as such, someone of a less than stable mindset might get it in their head that because he's less than human its morally acceptable to resort to violence to 'take our country back'. Throw in a religious mandate like this representative did, and it just makes things worse.

I don't mind opposition. But I don't recall anyone inplying that former President Bush wasn't human - or an enemy of all humanity. An idiot, yes. But he was still human. This kind of talk just concerns me.

[thegreyeminence]

What gets me is what prompted this: Obama reversed the Global Gag Rule, allowing foreign aid to AIDS treatment and other reproductive health programs, including abortions and abortion information. (That's right, Bush and Reagan wouldn't even allow information about abortions.) Anyway, that's sending “taxpayers' money overseas to pay for the killing of unborn children in other countries”.

He's also cut $14 million (13%) from abstinence-only education at home. I think it's a shame that it's still in the budget at all, since it not only doesn't work but actually makes the problem worse. “Family values” types, on the other hand, are terrified the federal government will soon force their daughters to have sex with black men cut the program altogether.

I also found a neat report card on Obama's reproductive rights track record. It'll have you rooting for enemies of humanity, too.

[touchofwinter]

Anyone who supports abstinence-only as a means of sex education is clearly unable to recall what it was like to be a teenager. Especially with modern media detailing exactly how sexual young people should be.

[thegreyeminence]

I think they remember enough to be terrified their kids will do it too. Come to think of it, most of our policies regarding sex, gender, reproduction, marriage, and death seem to be born of fear.

[eric_trayce]

What I really love is the spin thier poor handlers have to try to put on it.

"Well, what he meant to say, and should have clarified, is that he's the enemy of 'Unborn Humanity'. And that his opinions on abortion have no place in our government."

Right. I call bullshit. He said what he meant, and meant what he said.

[touchofwinter]

Agreed. If you can't articulate in a way that best represents your point you shouldn't be talking to the press. No, he said what he meant.

[grumpymonkey]

Feh. FEH, I say

[touchofwinter]

Yeah, no I get it. It's good of them to come right out and identify themselves as being crazy rather than just have us suspect they are. And yeah, there are going to be people who want to follow along with the ideas they spew forth because they deeply agree with them.

But I'm concerned at the level of demonizing. We're gone from being a socialist to a Nazi to being something you can only spot with Hunter Sight. Dehumanizing the man.