The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Following the recent Donald Trump rallies which have resulted in one cancellation and potential multiple criminal charges (against both Trump supporters and protesters), Florida Senator Marco Rubio, while laying some of the blame on the GOP frontrunner's rhetoric, as well as the protesters, also claimed that President Obama is partially to blame. He's not the first Republican politician to suggest this, for many have come forward and laid claim that Obama is the most divisive president in this country's history - some even blaming him for the rise of Donald Trump. I'm sorry, but the GOP calling President Obama divisive is so ironic Alanis Morissette is currently rewriting her hit song to reflect Rubio and many other GOPers' sentiments on the subject. Republican politicians can believe all they'd like that President Obama is divisive, but let's look back at Obama's tenure before casting him as such, shall we? - When he was elected in 2008, the GOP ...

It cracks me up to hear GOP frontrunner Donald Trump label President Obama as divisive. That declaration has to be a finalist for Most Ironic Statement of the Year, and we're only in March. Just today, I heard Trump speaking at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, where he said, "President Obama is so so divisive. I'm a unifier, a uniter, and he's a divider." I'm sorry, but what kind of drugs is this man taking? Whatever they are, remind me to never consume them. During his campaign, Donald Trump has insulted the following groups/individuals: Muslims, Mexicans, Jews, women, blacks, Asians, veterans, the disabled, protesters, the media, moderators, all of his Republican and Democratic opponents, fact-checkers, etc. Given his offensive, divisive rhetoric, it makes it seem as though Trump made a bet with 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Trump: "So, like, uh, you know you lost the election because you offended 47% of the voters with your taxpayers-moochers comment, ri...

I’ve been fascinated with politics for approximately 10 years now. Ever since the 2000 election when there was debate over who won the presidential election between Republican candidate George W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore, I’ve attempted to garner a greater understanding of the political world on a daily basis. The problem has been, unlike a science experiment or a mathematical equation, no longer is there a direct approach to journalism, where slant isn’t involved in one way or another. It’s typically rather simple to read a report, a column or hear someone speak on a news program and distinguish the facts from the fiction or even the exaggerated. Sometimes that’s not so easy and it’s become increasingly difficult to actually find reliable sources which simply report the news, without a hidden agenda. Anyone who says otherwise is just fooling themselves. The problem is that with this ubiquitous slant, American citizens tend to be drawn to the very sources which support t...