Hypocrisy is so convenient

29th June 2011   ·   0 Comments

By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq.
TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist

Do you really listen to the news—especially to President Barack Obama’s potential opponents for 2012? Do you hear the hypocrisy? Listen to the crowd that wants less government. Listen to the same crowd that doesn’t want government in their lives period. They’ve taken us down that road since President Obama was elected in 2008. Now, when you listen to them, they blame government under President Obama for everything they want, but didn’t get from the government these last three years. Well, give me a break! They either want government to resolve their problems or they don’t. They should make up their minds.

Government, under President Obama and his party, wants to preserve Medicare for people who really need it. The president’s opponents want to get rid of Medicare, while giving tax breaks to their wealthy friends who really don’t need government to give them a hand with their medical needs. They can afford to pay whatever the cost is. They want to privatize Social Security and turn it over to their wealthy friends who can gamble with the funds instead of allowing the government under President Obama to keep the funds safely for many years to come.

They profess to want jobs for the people who need them, but they are opposed to every measure the president presents to create jobs or to save jobs. Even though saving Chrysler and General Motors saved thousands of jobs for citizens, the president’s opponents think he should have just let the car companies go under.

Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty profess to know better than President Obama how to create jobs, but both left their own states when they were governor in serious need of jobs.

Mitt Romney thought state health care was a good thing when he was in the governor’s mansion in Massachusetts. Now that he’s out, and running for President, he doesn’t feel that the rest of the American people need a healthcare system similar to the one he thought was good for the people of Massachusetts. He will never be able to live down “Romneycare.”

Michelle Bachman, in her mind, is the real American, but doesn’t seem to know the basic documents or the very basic history of the country. She’s always getting it tangled up—sort of like Sarah does much of the time.

Newt Gingrich is the family values man in the race, but he can’t even seem to get the very basic marriage thing right.

Herman Cain, bless his heart, is so proud to be one of the darlings of the Tea Party, along with Bachman, but mark my word. Pretty soon, the Tea Party will show him where he gets off the train.

Ron Paul. What can I say?

Poor John Huntsman has been in China for awhile, so we can forgive him for believing he could get the nomination from his party because in the end, his party will just roll over him for ever having done anything in support of this Administration—like when he served as Ambassador to China by way of appointment from President Obama.

Hypocrisy is the right label for this crop of the President’s opponents. They seem to do it with such ease.

The “in” thing this election season is to just be against President Obama. It doesn’t matter if you have to flip-flop or if you don’t have anything to offer by way of solutions. Just be against President Obama and step up to try to block everything he tries to do to resolve problems their party created. Hypocrisy is so convenient!

Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. is National Chair of the National Congress of Black Women. She’s also Chair of the Board of the Black Leadership Forum in Washington, DC. To reach her, call (202) 678-6788; e-mail dr.efayew@gmail.com or see website at www.nationalcongress­bw.org.)

This article originally published in the June 27, 2011 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.