JFK Assassination fallout - Liars-in-Chief

What if...?

          May 29, 2016 marked the 99th birthday of John F. Kennedy. He probably wouldn't have lived that long but the history of the past 53 years would be vastly different if he had not been murdered. Thanks to his assassination we have been cursed with a parade of Liars-in-Chief holding the highest office in the land.

          When the American people allowed whoever it was that killed JFK to get away with his murder, the killers and those who supported them realized they could lie to us and we wouldn’t do anything about it.  

          I prefer to say things up front. John F. Kennedy WAS killed by a conspiracy, and the people who carried it out are still being protected by elements within our government…the FBI, the CIA, and the military. Lee Oswald didn’t kill anyone on November 22, 1963…not Tippit and not Kennedy. However, he has been vilified since then as the lone nut assassin. He was silenced by Jack Ruby so that the blame could be pinned on him without any recourse or anyone challenging it. He was exactly what he shouted in the halls of the Dallas Police Department, “I’m just a patsy”.  

The liars saw it and said that it was good.

          Are you satisfied with the course our country has taken since November 22, 1963? Kennedy’s death led to one liar after another holding the office of presidency. If any of these men had been Pinocchio, there wouldn’t have been enough wood available to keep extending their nose. Look at just a few examples of each:

None of these men would have become president if JFK had not been assassinated

          Lyndon Johnson will forever be remembered as the liar who pushed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which was used to justify the American military buildup in South Vietnam and a war that killed over 58,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, nurses...and over a million Vietnamese.

          Richard Nixon lied about a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam to get elected, then illegally invaded Laos and Cambodia while lying to cover it up…and lied about virtually everything else until he resigned.

          Gerald Ford lied about what was in the Warren Commission testimonials. He knew the truth because he was ON the commission but still lied to protect the predetermined solution to the murder...that Oswald was the sole assassin.

          Jimmy Carter lied about being a “nuclear physicist and a peanut farmer.” He was neither: he held only a bachelor’s degree, and he owned a peanut warehouse.

          Ronald Reagan's lies started before he even got into office. Remember his famous “There you go again” line to Carter at the debate on October 28, 1980? Carter had just accused Reagan of being against Medicare and Social Security. Carter was right and Reagan was wrong, Reagan had recorded a record album in the 1960s opposing Medicare and Social Security because he claimed it was leading us down a socialist path. But Reagan got away with it because he got a laugh from the line. He also lied about the illegal war in Nicaragua that he initiated, the Iran-Contra deal, his environmental policies…the list goes on.

          George H.W. Bush – remember “read my lips, no new taxes”? He then passed the biggest tax increase in our nation’s history to that date. Also, unlike 99% of Americans alive then, Bush says he can't recall where he was the day Kennedy was shot, (even though there’s a picture of him standing outside the Texas School Book Depository that afternoon). I guess CIA agents don’t need to have reliable memories.

George H.W. Bush chats with other CIA and FBI agents while police sweep the TSBD.

          Bill Clinton lied about his numerous extra-marital affairs; even going so far as to try to redefine what “is” is during the run up to possible impeachment proceedings. Of course, when smoking pot, he didn't inhale, either.

          George W. Bush – lied about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and dragged the U.S. into two wars.

          During a Joint session of congress in 2009 discussing health care reform, Barak Obama said: "There are also those who claim that our reform effort will insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false – the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally." In a breach of decorum South Carolina congressman Joe Wilson pointed at Obama and shouted, "You lie!" twice. But Wilson was right. Numerous cases have turned up where illegal immigrants had no problem getting on the Affordable Care Act. Obama even got MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber to identify the American voters as stupid people for passing the act. Not a lie per se, but a serious misjudgment.
          This is what our chief executives regularly pull off because it has become "part of the job"..  

          In November 2013 CNN even did a story about how and why presidents lie: http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/24/politics/presidents-lie/

          As if that makes it okay.

If the president's lips are moving, he's lying.

          Lying now defines American politics and presidents. They consistently lie because the U.S. government, to this day, continues to lie about the Kennedy assassination. Lying did not start there; it just became accepted and expected from that point on. It set a precedent that the liars in our government continue to build on.

          As long as we let the assassination lies and the liars who maintain it continue to rot American history and politics, our image around the world will sink lower and lower. We used to be considered “a shining beacon on a hill”. Now, thanks to lies that justify numerous wars we initiated or expanded since the JFK assassination, allow or encourage rampant CIA intrusions into foreign affairs, kill countless people the government gets to define as “bad”, and show callous disregard for the rights of other people or nations, we are the bully on the block...the rich, drunken, quarrelsome doofus that no one trusts.

      Are you pleased with what the U.S.A. has become?

          Then do something about it, because we are about to hold an election where we’ll have to choose from two more proven liars for the presidency.

They move in the same circles when they're not running against each other.

Donald Trump's appeal

Since it is apparent Donald Trump is going to be the Republican candidate for president, it’s time to consider what is his appeal. On who have the, as one pundit called them, “disgruntled conservative voters” pinned all their hopes. .

It is claimed Trump has hit a nerve among GOP grass-roots members with a message of we are fed up, especially with the GOP establishment.

Is that nerve the one that also desires to insult veterans, like Trump did with John McCain last July? If these grass-roots members are also military veterans, doesn’t it bother them that their candidate has so little regard for former prisoners-of-war? Or that when Trump had a chance to serve his country in the 1960s he claimed he got deferments for a bone spur in his foot. Yet when politely asked ‘which foot”, he fumbled a few moments and then said “It’s in the records. You’ll look it up in the records.” I can still remember which hand I broke (left) playing football when I was just a kid. But Trump can’t remember which foot had enough pain caused by a spur to keep him out of the military?

Why don’t those grass-roots members get fed up with Donald’s dishonesty, like claiming it wasn’t him posing as his publicist John Miller on a recorded phone call from the early 1990s that he later even admitted was a joke that spiraled out of control? Or his promise to release his tax records, as every presidential candidate has done since 1972, then reneging on it, saying not until after they are all audited (which won’t be until after November 2016) and besides, they would reveal nothing new. That doesn’t hit a nerve when he blatantly lies when confronted?

In Donald's defense, Genesis 19:30-36 says it's okay.

If any of those grass-roots members are female, how can they overlook Trump’s numerous instances of belittling women as dogs, pigs, fat-slobs, flat-chested malcontents, ugly-faced losers, and bimbos? Or when he calls women “basically aesthetically-pleasing objects”, that sexual assault in the military is to be expected, that women should rely on sex appeal, that pregnant women are monsters, or that breast-feeding in public makes a woman a horrible person? How do any of those comments miss a woman’s nerve?

This modest, humble and thought-provoking man tells anyone who’ll listen “The beauty of me is that I’m very rich”, “You can never be too greedy”, I’ll bring back a hell of a lot worse that waterboarding”, and that it doesn’t matter “what the media writes as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful piece of ass.” And yet his base of conservative voters aren’t fed up with such sexist, self-centered and shallow thinking.

Most astounding is the evangelicals who still support Trump. Here is a man who claims he doesn’t need forgiveness from a god because he hasn’t done anything to be forgiven for and referred to Second Corinthians as “Two Corinthians” when asked his favorite bible verse. He also cited the “Eye for an Eye” rule from Exodus 21 as being one that has guided him throughout his life, when that Mosaic Law was repudiated by Jesus in Matthew 5. Evangelicals, this is the man who will represent you to the world...and he claims his version of Christianity will have power when he’s in the White House. Not your interpretation of the bible...his interpretation. And you evangelicals are not going to like it. Because what he means is the Crusades power, Inquisition power, and unrestrained bigotry and oppression power. Is this how you want to be seen?

So much for Donald thinking the Clintons are horrible, dishonest people.

The GOP establishment that the disgruntled grass-roots members are fed up with is being encouraged to swallow its pride and do whatever it takes to keep Hillary Clinton from gaining the Oval Office because she’s a liar and proven deceiver. The patriotic thing to do is to instead put a lying, self-centered, thrice-married, flip-flopping semi-successful, crass, unapologetic sexist in the office. Yep…then the world will finally respect us!

As of May 19^th, Donald Trump has launched a media offensive to reset his campaign. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee is hoping to rehabilitate his image among voters who have been put off by his extreme rhetoric, and address the wrongs he has committed on the campaign trail. His main problem is still his take-no-prisoners style that has spurned Independents and moderate voters. His willingness to goad protesters, encourage violence, and hit below the belt in upending a culture he argues is spoiled by political correctness has also alienated most women, non-whites and moderate conservatives. Unless they all stay home November 8th, there aren't enough people left to get him elected.