Hypocrisy On Sunday
or, How the Right Wing Extremists Interpret The News.

I usually avoid all Sunday morning political talk shows. It's not good for the digestive system. But I did happen to catch CBS this morning, and while I don't care one way or the other for Tavis Smiley...meaning sometimes I agree but other times I feel he's off course...I was impressed with what he had to say. The topic was poverty in our country, something the Repubs just gloss over, or blame on the poor themselves. Mr. Smiley did a straight forward, factual, emotional piece: NO MENTION of Repubs or Dems, left or right, white or black or hispanics, male or female, this president or that one. Just a solid piece.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57476855/tavis-smiley-poverty-is-the-new-slavery/?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.13


I was TOTALLY taken back by the comments on the article, as you can see for yourself:

"Slavery, really? You make me sick. Slavery is code for it's the white guy's fault. The problem with the economy is in the White House. Smiley, I put you in the same category as Wright, Sharpton, & Jackson. You, like them, are race baiters and serve only to enflame hate. You are as big a racist as the Klan."


What is WRONG with this country? Is the divide, hate, ignorance and refusal to adhere to facts  too deep? Has the Right Wing Extreme Machine done THAT great a job? Do we have ourselves to blame, libs? 


We can say that the Right lives in an alternate reality...but it's here on the same ground as the rest of us. I don't want to believe that regular people think that way. I'm ashamed for them and scared at the same time. What does the future hold if this sort of thinking and behavior wins out..........?

MUST HAVE OWN KIDS & NOT LEAVE THE HOUSE

The manufactured outrage of Stay At Home Moms versus Working Moms is really pointless, and is being used to gain points on the Right. All moms these days have a big job on their hands no matter what. It's a cruel world out there: drugs, guns, fast food, and reality shows. If you're an in-the-home-mom you run the risk of not being in tune with the adult world: politics, arts, music, goings-on in social and literary venues, environmental concerns, economics......simply because your focus is elsewhere. If you're a working mom, you may miss the special moments of your kids' growing up, the play dates with other moms and kids, being there for emergencies when they happen, cleaning up those messes that can't wait till "mom gets home," or being there just because someone needs a hug. Neither one is the perfect solution.

BUT to take a statement out of context, and become "appalled" by it's meaning is hypocrisy. Even President and Mrs. Obama added opinions, thereby giving the whole matter legitimacy, which was unnecessary, in my humble opinion. And of course the Right was up in arms at the drop of hat, er FOX.

Most working moms have no "choice" as Ann Romney and many others do. I applaud that she was able to do that, thanks to her financial position. The rest of us are putting food on the table and roofs over our heads, due to MANY unforeseen circumstances, NOT laziness or "waiting for the government check." And chances are we do not have private schools to send our kids to, nannies to help, lawn service, or even three homes. To insinuate there is NO difference is ludicrous.


UPDATE: Regardless of its level of dignity, for Ann Romney, her work raising her children would not have fulfilled her work requirement had she been on TANF benefits.....HuffPost


And to throw the "but they were her kids, not adopted" is another disingenuous red herring. Another way of getting "their point"' across to we slackers or sinners. The Catholic church has become the Republican party's conservative base's "best friend" of late.

I am ashamed of what this country's political discourse has become. I thought we were better than this. I like to believe at one time we WERE.