Benghazi re-visited… over and over and over and…

I saw it again today on FaceBook…  although almost everyday one can find something like this:

“Like” if you agree that there needs to be congressional hearings to find out what Obama is covering up about Benghazi!!

Either there are things being covered up about the attack in Benghazi…

OR…

Some people are so desperate to find something to call a scandal and hang around President Obama’s neck, that they just refuse to believe or accept the results from other hearings that have already been held on Benghazi…  Because the information and results that came from other hearings on the subject did not produce the results they wanted to hear… so of course those results, those findings can’t be true…  Almost as if unless they hear what they want to hear, whether it is the truth or not, they will keep calling for congressional investigations…

So here is my question…

After President Obama’s 2nd term in office is over… and nothing more has been found about Benghazi, besides what is already known… or new things have been found out, but nothing that indicates wrongdoing on the part of President Obama (so… no scandal to attach to President Obama’s name; nothing that can be used to impeach him, as people also seem to be calling for)…

And a new President of the United States has been chosen and duly sworn into office  (no… the laws are not going to somehow be surreptitiously changed so that President Obama could possibly be elected to a 3rd term… there will be someone new in office come January 1, 2017)…

Will there still be calls for congressional hearings into Benghazi?

 

Laying blame … a good diversionary tactic …

I do wonder why everything that is thought of as “wrong” in the American government is thought to be President Obama’s fault… at least this seems to be the case in the minds of those who are his detractors…

It would seem to me that if one is going to lay all the blame for all that goes wrong at President Obama’s feet, then one must also lay all the praise for what is right at President Obama’s feet as well…

But this is not the case… this does not happen… President Obama only seems to get blame…

Why?

My personal opinion is that if the spotlight can be kept on President Obama and all the “wrong” he has supposedly done and caused, then it will not shine as brightly, if at all, on the problems faced by people who live in our country… especially those people who need the most help from their legislators… the poor… the unemployed… the disenfranchised… the ones with no one else to speak up for them, their needs or their rights…

And it will not shine as brightly, if at all, on those legislators who are doing nothing for their country or their constituents, other than trying to keep things in an uproar…

I didn’t quit after all…

As you will see, if you read this blog again, I did not quit, as I thought I would a few days ago…

While I believe that what I wrote in my blog post (titled, “I quit”) is true, I still, from time to time, have thoughts and questions on the issues that come up… and so I’ve decided to continue expressing my thoughts and raising the questions on issues around which our politicians (and others-radio talk show hosts, ordinary citizens, etc…) go crazy…

I will simply be another voice, adding to the chaos that has become our politics…

And I’d like to think (but then, I am a little biased) that my voice will add a little sanity to the chaos…

NRA “think” on guns, the Boston Marathon bombing and gun control…

The NRA and Wayne LaPierre are at it again…  This time they are tying in the Boston Marathon bombing incident with gun control debates…

“How many Bostonians wished they had a gun two weeks ago?” LaPierre asked at his organization’s annual convention in Houston, Texas.

This was an interesting question from the outgoing NRA chief, Wayne LaPierre.  What good would it have done for Bostonians who don’t now possess a gun to have had one a couple weeks back during the Boston Marathon bombing incident?  And how would their owning a gun have been of help to anyone?

Would their owning a gun have stopped the bombs from being placed, or from being detonated?

Would their owning a gun have kept anyone from being killed or injured by the bombs’ blast?

To both questions, I would answer, “I think not”…

Maybe LaPierre is playing on fears people may have felt at the time… suggesting that if they had had a gun, they would not have been afraid?   Or maybe something far worse?… subtly suggesting that had they had guns, they could have drawn them and been out on the streets protecting themselves and others by looking for (and killing?) those responsible for the bombing…  I wouldn’t want to imagine how many innocent people might have been injured or killed in the chaos that would have resulted from that possibility!

And he talks about President Obama exploiting other gun tragedies for political gain…

I guess it’s NOT ok for President Obama (or any other lawmaker for that matter) to call for reasonable ways to try and curb gun violence, citing the recent tragic occurrences of gun violence and their resulting deaths and injuries as a reason for our needing to find ways to curb gun violence…

But yet…

It IS ok for LaPierre to play on peoples’ fears and suggest that owning a gun would somehow have made a difference in Boston a few weeks ago?

Shame on Wayne LaPierre for exploiting the Boston Marathon bombing tragedy strictly for his and his organization’s gain!

I must agree with one thing he said, though…

“Good guys with guns stopped terrorists with guns”.

But I think he is forgetting that it was the GOVERNMENT good guys… the local and state police, the FBI, the ATF… with guns who stopped the terrorists with guns…  not civilians running around “helter-skelter” with their guns blazing to the rescue…

Ah Lord… save us from the NRA!!!!

They may THINK that gun control measures will not curb or stop gun violence…

But I KNOW that more guns on the street will not curb or stop gun violence either…

I’m still looking… and wondering about our country’s congressional leaders…

In case you are wondering, because you see one background for this blog on one day, and the next time you check it, there is a different one, I am still looking for the right background (or “theme”, as WordPress calls them) for this blog…  I just haven’t found the one I really want to use…

So I’ll keep experimenting…

Sooner or later, I’ll settle on one…

I wonder if our congressional leaders sometimes do the same…

You know… experiment with whether they want to follow the will of their constituents and do what is in the best interests of our country…  or…  do their own thing and follow their own agenda, or the agenda of the folks that contribute $$$$$$ to them…

You know, see what “theme” fits their decisions for a particular day…   or wobble back and forth…

Ah well…  maybe they’ll settle on one or the other soon…

Hopefully, it will be the choice to remember that they have been sent to represent the wishes of the people…