Tuesday, August 11, 2009

White House's sensitivity


In the Washington Metro, one can read a curly brown haired infant blurt: "President Obama's daughters get healthy school lunches. Why don't I?". The girl in the picture is little innocent eight year old Jasmine Messiah, who complains that her school in Florida does not offer vegetarian alternatives in the cafeteria.
Consequently, there is a tense struggle between the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the White Cream House, where Obama is chilling with his "unmentionable" kids. Yes. Unmentionable. Because a jokey, loudmouth, knobbly looking individual named Frank Luntz, a republican political consultant, aggressively responses stating that "The children of the president are always off-limits. Always. No exceptions. No ifs, ands or buts. And while it may draw short-term attention to the issue, the White House will hate the organization for it. And I assure you they will be punished. You don't mess with the president's children. It's an unwritten rule."
I do not have the power to induce this man into a coma and lock him in a reeking holdall while I watch cartoons, but I am given the same right as pretty Jasmine, which is to translate my inner intent into protesting words and pee into someone's face... figuratively, not literally, because that would smell bad. What I am trying to say is that people can say whatever the juicy Hell they want, and not let nonentity creatures such as Luntz interfere in our actions.
Let's fairly face it: the posters are not going to alter jack poop, and it is needless to mention Obama's children because they probably do not get lunch from the school cafeteria. The same laziness that causes human flesh to turn obese for the lack of vegetables, also makes parents forget to provide their kids with proper lunch boxes. Hence, the posts are slightly scurrilous and make me sad.
But... Luntz's response is tactless and unnecessary. Expressing the word "hate" in an official governmental declaration, concerning children, scars the image of this nation and can only be associated with that shit church that says that "God hates homosexuals". Same page. Lunzt, if the rules are not written, they are not rules. Period.