Disrespecting the office of the President and the office holder:

I have been listening to a number of these high profile pundits who are always in the news on the front page or my TV screen blabbing about something. I will give them it’s their right to have free speech but it’s also their responsibilities to get it correctly and speak the truth. All too often what they are saying is totally wrong.

Most of this “coded hate speech” maybe directed to their caucus or right wing hate base.  I would like to think that most people on the right are not “hate mongers” and just have a different of opinions. This has been the most incidents directed against President Barack Obama that I recall during my life time. To my knowledge no other President has been disrespected by so many fruits and nuts during their tenure. This President at every turn no matter what he says or does to help get the country back on track. Most of these fruits and nuts don’t have any ideas about the subjects they are talking about.

Some of you think I am crazy or overly sensitive about being a person of color. I say to those of you who have not been denied or have the doors of opportunity slam in your faces don’t have a clue on what I am talking about. Everything I have done has been a major struggle, nothing has come easy. I keep hoping that some time I will get a great break without getting the shaft first, so far no such luck.

 Here are just a few examples of people and organization that disrespected the President: first out of the barrel is Governor (R) Jan Brewer of Arizona pointing her finger at the leader of the free world. She said one thing on camera when she left the Whitehouse after her meeting with the President. She wrote something else in her book, I guess that was to play to her right wing caucus. She also stated to FOX right wing TV and several other media outlet that she was intimidated by the President presence. People who were close enough to hear the conversation stated that the President was not intimidating nor did he say or do anything disrespectful to GOV Brewer. Most people who have been observing Gov Brewer believe that her display of finger pointing was designed to generate sales for her book(S).

Speaker (R) Newt Gingrich: The Speaker never calls the President he always call him “Obama” in my mind that speakers volumes about the Former Speaker. He is doing this to play to his base however; he is distance himself for his base. He call the President the “Food Stamp” President then he went on to state that President Obama has put more people on food stamp than any other President in our history and her is why he is wrong; None. Well, actually 7.7 million FEWER people needed food stamps when Gingrich and Republicans took over house in 1994 and the time he left in 1998. When Bill Clinton entered office 20 million people were on food stamps. By 1994, that number had risen to 27.5 million. By 1998, after 4 years of Republican control of house only 19.8 million needed food stamps–a decrease of 7.7 million people.

Before the 2008 financial crisis, 26 million people needed food stamps. Today, 44.7 million people are on food stamps. That is an increase of 18.4 million people.

So has Obama made it better? When Obama entered office in 2008, 28.2 million people were on food stamps. So the number of people on Food stamps has increased by 16.5 million. To be fair, we have to give his economic policies a chance to work, so let’s just look at the number on food stamps since 2010. In 2010, 40 million people were on food stamps. By end of 2011, 44.7 million–another 4.7 million just between these years. But if the economy was getting better FEWER people should need food stamps.

Mr. Gingrich can not only say that Obama is the Food Stamp President, but that when Republicans gained control of the house food stamp use was still increasing. But after 4 years of Republican control in the house, 7.7 million fewer people needed food stamps. Republicans kick them off the rolls for food stamps.

There were 312,240,000 people in the United States, mid May. 45,753,078 of them were on food stamps. That's 14.7% of all Americans on food stamps get the average monthly amount of $133.80. This is the new economic metric, how many people are so poor, so broke, they qualify and use food stamps. The data is hard to find, not explained and located on the USDA site. That's 2.5% increase from just last month and a 12.1% increase from May of last year!

Even more telling the amount of people on food stamps has increased 69.4% since October 2007. Since the so-called end of the Great Recession, people on food stamps has increased 28.5%. Alabama food stamp usage increased 102.9% in one month or by 893,668 people. That's right, after tornadoes swept through the region and the press leaves the area, devastation rolls on. Without Alabama the food stamp monthly increase would have been 0.5% from last month.

Regardless of the emergency assistance for Alabama pushing up the numbers, the statistics are still bleak and damning across the board. Below is the yearly percentage increase in food stamps for each State. 22 States had > 10% increases in food stamps usage and only North Dakota showed a decline of -0.1%. Every other State's food stamp participation increased from a year ago.

Speaker Gingrich says people of color don’t want to work because they have never been trained how to work; nothing future from the truth is true. Most people with income under $25K must work because at least fifty percent of these people can’t afford days off or afford to get sick. Most don’t have health care for their children or them self nor do they have a retirement plan so they must work all of their lives. Lots of these people have a house full of kids that adds to their problems. Another idea the Speaker suggested in one of his campaign speeches that janitors in schools should be fired so students could replace them saving the school districts lots of money and teaching the students about work and earning a pay check. According to the Speaker Gingrich people in the low income neighborhood don’t have jobs and can’t teach their offspring’s about working. I really hate when these multimillionaires have it made because someone has given them a helping hand. Most of these people need a helping hand. Having said that’s there is an element who is up to no good just as there are in every neighborhood, the bad guys  like to hide in good neighborhoods hoping they will not be spotted by the police. They are hoping the code of silence will protect them so they can continue to do their bad deeds in the open without being concerned about the policeman.  

Speaker Gingrich has also stated President Obama want to see the nation failed however, the only people who is not pulling their full weight are the 1%. They aren’t paying their fair share of the taxes to support the nation. The Republicans politicians at the state and federal level have all signed the “no new tax pledge”. Any ideas that was previously supported by Republicans are now bad ideas if President Obama support them. We have even heard ideas that Speaker Gingrich supported such as health care with the personal mandate now because President Obama got healthcare passed now it’s a bad ideas, “poppy cock” Mr Speaker.

Speaker Gingrich is constantly referring to Saul D Alinsky most American don’t have any ideas about who Mr Alinsky is well I am going to give you a brief synopsis of who this man was what he stood for and who he supported. Who is Saul Alinsky, and why is Newt Gingrich so obsessed with him? Newt Gingrich keeps likening President Obama to radical community organizer Saul Alinsky. But Gingrich seems to have adopted Alinsky's tactics himself, as has the tea party. Mainstream Republicans aren't happy.

He was born in 1909 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents and graduated from the University of Chicago. He dropped out of graduate school there to organize poor people in the city's slums. He organized against inhumane working conditions in the Back of the Yards area in Chicago, made infamous by Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”. He later spread his organizing efforts to other cities around the country.

Rudy Giuliani recently turned the tables on Gingrich's Alinsky rhetoric. "What the hell are you doing, Newt?" said the former New York City mayor recently on Fox News. "I expect this from Saul Alinsky! This is what Saul Alinsky taught Barack Obama, and what you're saying is part of the reason we're in so much trouble right now."

As an historian, Gingrich should know better than to confuse compromise with consensus. There was little all-encompassing agreement among the Founding Fathers. Does Gingrich mean to stake his campaign on Alexander Hamilton's proposal of a life term for the president? James Madison's idea that the federal legislature should be able to veto state laws? Would he have preferred Benjamin Harrison's proposal that slaves should be counted as half a person for purposes of representation, or is he satisfied with the three-fifths compromise?  

As to Saul Alinsky, the Chicago organizer who died when Barack Obama was a 10-year old boy in Hawaii, it is hard to figure out why Gingrich is so fixated on a man whose most notable achievement was organizing Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood in the 1930s to combat inhumane working conditions. You would think from Gingrich's allusions that Alinsky must have been a Marxist, maybe even a Communist. His biographer Sanford Horwitt is clear: Alinsky was neither. Or you can just read Alinsky himself -- has Gingrich? -- who wrote in his 1971 Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals,"

Donald Trump multibillionaires: Mr Trump has been on the birther band wagon for quite some time. He used it when he was trying to run for President or should I say what he was really doing was selling his TV show and his books. I guess like all people that have been blessed with more than they could every want or need that’s not enough. This to me clearly indicate to me greedy people wants it all, in that effort Mr Trump knew that the birther issues had been put to rest after President Obama’s staff released his long form birth  certificate. To my knowledge, this President, is the only President in our history who has been confronted with this non sense. President Obama web site has mug for sale for with his birth certificate printed on it for those of you who still don’t get it. Mr Trump isn’t the only one who is still drunk on this issue. To my absolute astonishment there are crazies all over the country wasting the courts time with this nonsense. Senator (R) Santorum was greets by one of the attendees in his meeting with this birther mess and he chose to do nothing to correct the speaker. Shame on you Senator Santorum… In my mind none of the Republicans Presidential Candidates have the courage to set the records straight.