Well, now it's completely political.
For a lot of folks who are going to hate Donald Trump whether he cures cancer or creates more jobs than the Industrial Revolution, there's nothing he could ever do that will be viewed as a positive.
In this May 23, 2018, file photo, Hillary Clinton speaks during the New York state Democratic convention in Hempstead, N.Y. "Madam Secretary" won't lack secretaries of state this fall. CBS on Tuesday, July 24, announced former secretaries Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell will appear on the drama's fifth season premiere on Oct. 7. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)That's fine. That's your right.
The president is quite happy to engage anyone on social media. He made a lot of hay with his supporters and galvanized his base with his diatribes about NFL players kneeling in protest during the national anthem.
You may have heard about it. It made most of the papers and the news broadcasts.
Anyhoo, his nemesis, ol' Crooked Hillary, as he likes to call her, got neck deep in the protesting-our-patriotic-pastimes war of words on Wednesday.
Yep, Clinton took to the Twitterverse and congratulated an 11-year-old girl who lives outside of Baltimore.
What's the big deal, you ask. Well, Ms. Clinton's kudos are for 11-year-old Mariana Taylor, who took a knee during the "Pledge of Allegiance" before school started.
Clinton's tweet: "It takes courage to exercise your right to protest injustice, especially when you're 11! Keep up the good work Mariana."
Jay GreesonBuckets. This is how fractured we are, people. Here's betting that Clinton would be the first one up in arms if said school tried to have a prayer before class. So the logic there is clearly schools have no right to make kids stand for the "Pledge of Allegiance" but can't even mention the Lord.
Before you start banging the email keyboard about the Constitution, here's betting the folks who said "dang right!" after reading the previous paragraph about those constitutionally protected rights is the first group that wants to take a bucket of Wite-Out to ol' Amendment No. 2. You know, that crazy idea that folks can carry guns and all.
Friends, if you really review the 2016 presidential election, it was not so much Trump winning hearts and votes as it was Clinton losing them. A huge number of folks who voted for Trump cast that ballot for no other reason than the chance to vote against Hillary. Period.
And actions like her recent tweet are another example of how she lost so much of middle America.
This whole "keep up the good work" stuff is socially irresponsible. What if her parents wanted her to stand? What if she was facing possible suspension from school? Clinton trying to match Trump's quick-trigger tweet from the fingertips is not only not helping, it's borderline irresponsible.
It's one thing to encourage grown-ups to engage in peaceful civil protest. They are adults. They can deal with the fallout, good or bad.
But to encourage a preteen to engage in protests of our flag and our pledge and the requests of her school, well, who does that serve? Like so many other things it's a gesture from Hillary made in an attempt to serve Hillary.
That's not support. That's insubordination.
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