Just a short while ago I was watching the televised
questioning of Donald Trump’s appointee to the position of Secretary of State, Rex
Tillerson, by the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and was unfortunate
enough to hear Senator Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland and a scowling,
disagreeable looking man, list the many problems existing in our government and
in the world, and grilling Mr. Tillerson as to what he would do, if he is
approved as the new Secretary of State, to fix these serious and numerous
problems. One wonders why Senator Cardin wasn’t sufficiently concerned by these
problems to present them to Barack Obama, the current sitting president of the
United States, who either caused these several problems, or sat by idly while
they developed and got worse.
The good Senator mentioned the serious situation that
Israel is in and the dangers this sole democracy in the Middle East faces, and
of course dutifully asked Tillerson whether he shares a concern for Israel’s
welfare, but didn’t seem to remember that Barack Obama had made Israel’s
position in the world much more dangerous and threatening by not vetoing the
punitive measure introduced by the scoundrels in the United Nations a few weeks
ago. Because of this silence, while an ally of the United States was being
diplomatically attacked by the U.N., I doubt Senator Cardin’s sincerity in this
matter.
If Democrats had opposed the many mis-deeds and
mal-deeds of the Obama administration, deeds that they now present to the Trump
administration in an accusatory way, the world would be a safer and more
pleasant place. But of course, Democrat legislators remained silent during all
of Obama’s atrocious actions and inactions and just allowed these boiling pots
to fester to the point of explosion.
It’s all well and good that Democrat legislators would
expect the Trump administration, and Rex Tillerson, to address the problems
left behind by Obama, that’s why Americans elected Donald Trump to the Oval
Office, but why does Obama get a pass
for eight years of his horrendous presidency, from these Democrat, legislative
idiots and fools?
