MR PRESIDENT- YOU WERE PRESENTED WITH AN OPPORTUNITY!
BY GARY KALTBAUM- AUGUST 14, 2017
We all get opportunities in life. Some are small. Some are big. SOME ARE GIGANTIC. All presidents get a gigantic opportunity. There have only been 44 men to experience the opportunity. (Grover Cleveland had non-consecutive presidencies.) Only 44 men that have had a chance to change the world for the better. It’s what you do with those opportunities that define you.
President Donald Trump, as president, was given one hell of an opportunity this weekend, one that emerged out of tragedy, a woman’s murder as well as many other injuries. Donald Trump squandered the opportunity.
If I was president, I would have taken the opportunity to do something not many get the opportunity to do…and that is to take the opportunity to tell a world that listens to every word I say that nazis, white supremacists, the KKK and whoever else kisses the ass of anything Hitler…that you are scumbags, that you are dirt, that to be a fan of a man that murdered over 10 million people, 6 million of them Jews, will not be applauded but will be treated as a scourge, the worst kind of scourge. You want to believe in all this crap? You are lucky. This country allows you to believe in stupidity. You want to believe it and act on it? You want to commit violence? You will be indicted. You will be convicted and you will be put in a 6 by 9 cell for as long as the law allows. Believe it in your homes. Believe it while you are sitting on the john. Just leave the rest of us alone.
I have been to Auschwitz-Birkenau. I have been to Terezin. I have spoken to concentration camp survivors. To not make a SPECIFIC AND EMPHATIC STATEMENT NAMING THEM BY THEIR SCUMMY NAME when the opportunity presents itself disrespects all that have been affected by the horror of Hitler and the Holocaust.
Mr. President. The media is bashing you. The left is bashing you. But we do not give them any credibility because according to them, you caused the Chicago fire, San Francisco earthquake and the bubonic plague. No matter what you say or do, you will never be right in their eyes. They think you are nothing more than a racist. I don’t believe it. No, I have never met you and do not know you. But somehow you went through 70 years of your life not being a racist.
But you blew it and now it is time to fix it. Get yourself front and center and immediately. No tweets. Television! No script. Just words from the heart. Just you looking directly into the camera telling the world that this will not stand. Nazis, white supremacists, KKK, David Duke and the rest of these clowns do not represent who we are and what we are. Great opportunities. Mr. President. You still have one! It’s time to take this opportunity and make good on it.
Gary-
Well written but I think you are incorrect about one point. I think deep down he is a racist and was raised by a racist father. This is not the first time Trump has ignored the fact that the Jewish people were the primary target of the Nazi death camps. Remember the controversy when the White House made the benign statement about Yom Hashoah?
The failure of the president to disavow the Alt-Right, Neo-Nazis, White supremacists et al is the same as the German people saying and doing nothing about the persecution of the Jews. They may have not killed any Jews themselves but the failure to acknowledge the atrocities were tantamount to approving of the Nazi Final Solution.
To say he approves because he neglected to acknowledge it is absolutely Crazy.. come on.. he is a busy guy with a load of things to juggle. This is your priority.. one perhaps among fifty he has himself to focus on.. I love Isreal and the whole idea that is miraculously there the last 100 years or so .. but everyone has there own agendas..
Murder is wrong and should be immediately condemned, including abortion, my friends.
Trump is not Obama, and he handled it with facts as they were known, it was not the white supremacist groups that started this violence, and God help this 20 year old kid about to be railroaded, especially the press.
How many of you would have done nothing as your car was being beaten with baseball bats and other constant threats and conduct while trapped in your car with no place to go, sure you will just sit there and cry or scream into your closed windows for help, really, I can’t stand racist bigots of any color, but this was not of that kind, go look at the video of that car, put yourself in the car, and then say what you would do, …acting like he came out of no where and just drove over people is not what happened, and the fake news is dead wrong, …by the way how many weapons did this crazed kid have, what body armor was he wearing? Answer, none
Those with the bats, and rocks and other weapons were not going to a protest, they were just like the hooligans at Berkley who nearly got me, luckily, I got away before the crowd could trap me…..wjat if this was you….think people, don’t be steeple, murder it was not, involuntary manslaughter maybe, justifiable homicide maybe, but racial criminal behavior nope
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