JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: MICHELLE OBAMA SPEAKS OF HER “LOW-GRADE DEPRESSION” – TRIGGERED BY TRUMPS’S HYPOCRISY AND RACIAL STRIFE – THOSE ARE INDEED DEPRESSING MATTERS – BUT WITH GLOWING IMAGES OF HER WITH HER HUSBAND, AS IF TO PRESENT A CONTRAST WITH TRUMP, SHE OVERLOOKS OTHER VERY TROUBLING MATTERS – SHE IS A SYMPATHETIC AND WELL- INTENTIONED WOMAN BUT NOT A WELL-INFORMED ONE - SOME FACTS ABOUT HER HUSBAND BARACK OBAMA’S KILLING AND LYING – TRUTH IS THAT AMERICA’S POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT IS NO LONGER CAPABLE OF DOING ALMOST ANY GOOD IN THE WORLD – ITS DRIVES AND INTERESTS ARE ABOUT AS FAR REMOVED FROM DOING GOOD AS YOU CAN GO

John Chuckman


COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN YOURDESTINATIONNOW


“Michelle Obama reveals she is suffering from 'low-grade depression' that she says has been triggered by Trump's 'hypocrisy', 'racial strife' and the stress of the pandemic”

“The 56-year-old uploaded episode two of 'The Michelle Obama Podcast' on Spotify today, featuring a discussion with NPR's Michele Norris”.

http://www.yourdestinationnow.com/2020/08/michelle-obama-reveals-she-is-suffering.html


I regard Michelle as sympathetic and well-intentioned, but she is not well-informed on some matters of great importance. Perhaps she is just in denial of certain truths.

It depresses any thoughtful person to see photos of Trump’s scowling or grimacing face and to read some of his outrageous and primitive language.

The man has proven himself violent, uncooperative, greedy, prejudiced, and deceitful.

He serves as a living, daily reminder that evil is a very real thing in our world.

But then. sadly, that same thing is true of Michelle’s husband, Barack Obama, a man responsible for a whole series of wars and coups and bombings, having killed a huge number of people.

Unfortunately, over my lifetime of observation, it is invariably the case that Americans get worked up about anything affecting their domestic ease and comfort while being fully capable of ignoring the most horrendous crimes American armed forces and security services commit abroad. It actually doesn’t speak well for the society’s values or its empathy.

Michelle’s husband has the kind of smile that makes him appear benign in photos. He has a talent, too, for selecting words that make him seem soothing. He doesn’t call people and countries foul names or stab his finger towards someone while threatening them the way Trump does.

But the hell he unleashed in Syria and in Libya and in Yemen and in Ukraine and still other places belies the smile and the well-chosen words. So do the countless lies used to hide what was going on.

Obama bombed someone somewhere every single day of his eight years in office. He helped destroy several well-run societies. And he is responsible for creating America’s industrial-scale extrajudicial killing system which now has killed thousands of legally-innocent people with no charges or day in court. He even joked once about being “pretty good at this killing stuff.” Does that sound comforting or humane or even decent?

They are both hateful political figures, Trump and Obama, each in his own way. Trump is cruder and more obviously prejudiced and less intelligent, but neither of them represents much that is good in the world.

They happily represent a brutal power trying to lord it over the other 96% of the world’s people who are not Americans. Actually, that percentage should be something like 99.9% because most of the roughly 4% of the world’s population who are Americans are almost as unimportant to the country’s establishment as the “foreigners,” which is part of the reason for so much hatred and police brutality inside American society. The two leaders just do so with widely differing styles. Many might prefer Obama’s classier style, but the results of his work are still horrendous.

The plain truth is that America’s political establishment no longer is capable of doing much good in the world, no matter who holds the office of President. It is no longer capable even of doing much good for its own people. It is utterly corrupted by money and answers only to the needs of those who can supply the money.