Manns Medium

If you have not read this article by Charles Johnson titled Last Straw for an African American GOP Supporter which can be found on www.littlegreenfootballs.com or in Newsvine, you really should search it out.   This article confirms everything that I have been saying about the direction of the Tea Party and many in the Republican Party.    In it he provides a letter from “a long-time Republican from Sacramento, Ken Barnes” who has just given up trying to belong to a party that really do not want him and only see him as useful when it comes to attempting to show that they are an inclusive party. The main idea of this article and what many minorities need to heed is the question Mr. Barnes asks at the end of his letter.   “If this can be done to a black man who is the leader of the free world, how long will it be before fellow Republicans insert my face on a chimpanzee?”   One is lead to believe that a difference of opinion can be better handled in a civil ...

I normally would not respond to articles such as this but could not help but to stand in defense of the president that I not only voted for but advocate for today.   I do not agree with all of the decisions that he has made thus far but before I engage mouth I always try to get the whole story.   While I know that one of the things that makes us the beacon on the hill is the freedom to speak our minds, I just wish that every once in a while we would take a few minutes to think before we speak.   The article of which I speak is the article seeded by Driftwood1 on the Newsvine site titled Angst and anger: Obama’s Libyan intervention send Huff Posters over the edge .   In it she reports that “i t’s getting ugly for President Obama over at the Huffington Post. The lefties are torn between their irrational love for the god who walks among men and their complete disgust with his Libyan hypocrisy.   We, of course, gravitate toward the ones who finally see the light.” ...