This will be an unpopular take! All you folks looking for quotes that prove I’m a heartless villain with zero empathy, get ready to take some screen shots!
Whenever the President of the United States visits the site of a local disaster, I’m suspicious that he wouldn’t be there if he wasn’t the President. And if he wasn’t the President, nobody would notice that he was there. The President “surveying the damage” and “hearing the stories” is required by a certain percentage of the population who think it is a politician’s job to care about them.
To a point, these people are correct. Politicians are supposed to serve the needs of those who elected them. The President’s job is to protect our rights to life, liberty, and pursuing happiness by upholding the Constitution. The President proves he cares for us by keeping us safe from tyranny.
(Below is the part you’re going to want to clip out of context and use against me.)
I don’t want or need the President to encourage me during a personal tragedy. I don’t believe he truly cares about my situation. How could he? We aren’t friends. We’ve never even met each other. The reason I’m in the video frame with him is to placate my fellow Americans who believe the President is my Dad. He is using me to make himself look good. Be honest, do you remember the names of any disaster victim you’ve ever seen talking to a political leader?
After visiting with victims of the Christmas Parade Massacre in Wisconsin, Jill Biden explained her motivation. “I would want to know that my president and first lady cared about me,” she said.
Yikes!
On top of the tragedy itself is an equally tragic need to have your personal struggles acknowledged by the man in charge of running the entire country! While in the midst of loss you’re thinking, “What I really need is a hug from Jill Biden!” That is truly pitiful.
Notice that public officials don’t show up at EVERY tragic event. They only appear when the disaster makes national news. That’s because this is a big country with literally thousands of tragedies happening every hour. Tens of thousands of people are suffering every moment of every day. It is not possible for your favorite politician to hug everybody who is hurting.
I don’t need the President to care about me because my family and friends do that. If you’re a person who needs to know ‘the president and first lady care about you’ — GO GET SOME FRIENDS! Politicians don’t care about you unless there’s a film crew covering your tragedy.
“A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
(Proverbs 17:17)
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Dave Barry had an excellent line about governors and presidents flying in a helicopter over the path of a recent storm and frowning at the damage. Yes, it’s a photo-op, nothing more. But we’ve become so accustomed to it that something seems wrong if a disaster makes the national news and the president doesn’t make an appearance to frown. J.
Amen! Having Brandon or Jill show up would make my day worse not better.
Well said, John!
The Prez shows up when he’s told by his advisors it is for his political advantage or agenda to show up.
The anger I have felt has been intense when George W. showed up at the World Trade Center, with his arm around the firefighter, and was handed a bullhorn. George was pledging revenge (and catapulting us into war) when the rubble needed to be combed and the nation needed to grieve. What a tone-deaf, globalist (insert Tim Hawkins’ alternative *words here).
Thank you, John, for being a voice of truth, sanity and satire. I ask God’s blessings for you and yours!