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Tucson Helps Immigrants in Need, May Ask Obama to Curb Deportations

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam7/05/2014 9:15:13 pm PDT

re: #169 Feline Fearless Leader

I looked up the demographics of that city in Wikipedia. Color me unsurprised.

One thing I’m upset about is the fact that FOX and the GOP have essentially finished off the Presidency being granted any sort of basic courtesy or dignity. You get that sort of sliming in political circles, but it has definitely leaked into the public sphere over the past few decades. And gone completely over the top since 2008. And by now it’s gotten engrained into the culture that there is nothing wrong with being totally disrespectful towards the leader of our country.

I have an older FB friend (really, a friend of a friend) who posted in his annual July 4 message this week that the we have president who is “out of touch with the majority” of the population. I had to fight the urge to call him out on that particular point, as I try to avoid political discussions on Facebook and as it would do no good — it would just make the bear angry, as it were.

But I can’t fathom how anyone could accept the idea that Obama is “out of touch” when he was elected by a majority of the popular vote. I think it’s code words for “he does stuff I don’t like.”