Just sayin' . . .

On April 29, 1962 President John F. Kennedy hosted a dinner for Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere. In his introductory talk he said, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.” He was referring to his guests and not himself.

     On April 4, 1968, upon hearing of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy then campaigning in Indianapolis said, “My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.”

     On June 26, 2015 President Barack Obama sang “Amazing Grace” during the eulogy at the memorial service for Congresswoman Clementa Pickney who was murdered in a Church in South Carolina by racist Dylan Storm Roof.    
     And every day I feel assaulted and demoralized by the lies of a President who suffers from a serious narcissistic personality disorder, lies that have led to the deaths of too many people in the United States. A President who I suppose has never read Aeschylus and perhaps cannot pronounce his name; one who certainly would never surround himself by Nobel Prize winners whose presence would expose the fact that his self-declared genius is hardly that; a President whose racism has worked to exacerbate an already troubled and fractured society; and whose language would keep him from the altar of most religious institutions. 

I’m just saying . . .