CALLING OUT ALL HYPOCRITES
By Helen L. Burleson, Doctor of Public Administration

When it comes to hypocrites, it’s hard to decide who to name first. Let’s start with Dylan Radigan of MSNBC. In assessing the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Mr. Radigan, who appears to be lacking in objectivity, seems to conclude that the problem for addressing and resolving this crisis is lack of leadership.

Mr. Radigan may I remind you that all of the problems that our current president, President Barack Obama is faced with are the results of lack of leadership in our country for years, maybe for decades. Why was BP allowed to drill without following recognized standard safety procedures? Where was the Congressional oversight? How does Haliburton figure in this? There has been so much cronyism, nepotism, palm greasing, cooking books, looking the other way, and just plain corruption in our government that has led to the problems that we are facing today.
Recently, it has been revealed that one sensitive government department had workers spending their time watching undesirable videos. Another very important department MMS uncovered the fact that some of their workers were too cozy with those they were responsible for regulating.

It’s time for true confessions! It’s time to stop the lies and pretenses! Stop the game playing! It is time to bring our heads up out of the sand and look at reality! It’s time to behave like adults and Americans. It is time to work collectively, assertively and aggressively to address the very real needs of the people of this country who are suffering because of failed past practices.

Stop this ridiculous trumped up blaming of the current president for all the corruption, incompetency, inadequacy and inattention to due diligence of past administrations, especially the most recent past administration.

Like it or not President Barack Obama will go down in history as THE GREATEST PRESIDENT AMERICA HAS EVER KNOWN. This is the true problem with the malcontents. They know this is true and they are doing their darndest to tamper with history. History is on the side of President Obama. The hypocrites might just as well get over it! Republican Bob Corker, Tennessee, says the President has thin skin. It is Mr. Corker whose veneer is cracked and revealing. Republican Senator Pat Roberts, Kansas, says the President needs to take a pill before he comes in and talks to Republicans. Only a man of peace and wisdom would walk into the lions’ den which the Republican Party has become. Only a man of steely resolve would bother with a group who are determined to make his presidency his Waterloo.

I am so proud that we have a president who is mature and wise beyond his years and can withstand the slings and arrows that are being thrown at him from the detractors, the demons and the diabolical whose contempt for him is based on their own feelings of inadequacy and lack of accomplishment.

While we are singling out some of the hypocrites, we can’t leave out Republican Congressman Mike Pence, Indiana. We must recognize the number one hypocrite, Republican Senator John McCain, Arizona, who has vacillated and flip flopped on every issue he was once for, now that he lost his bid for the presidency. As a long-term senator from Arizona, why hasn’t he introduced legislation to resolve the border issues? Arizona’s problems of illegal immigration did not start with President Obama’s presidency. Because he has now become an “INSTANT EXPERT” on everything, is McCain suffering from amnesia? If 6.000 members of the National Guard were required to guard the borders, when the Republicans had the majority, why wasn’t this done?

For the thinking people of America; and, I sincerely hope we are in the majority, our vision is like infra red and we can see through the layers and layers of hypocrisy. Our country will never be successful as long as we have people who are intentionally exerting massive energy to divide us, to delude us and to dissuade us from evaluating everything objectively, free from biases. Wake up America and let’s call out all these hypocrites!