Donald Trump: ‘am I morally obligated to defend the president?’

 Before I begin this post I must say that I feel “morally obligated” to once again state that I am not a supporter of Donald Trump and I have made my concerns about him painfully clear on more than one occasion to those who read this blog on a regular basis.

  With that out of the way let us begin: Donald Trump has come under fire in the last couple of days because he did not correct a person who called Barack Obama a Muslim at a recent event in New Hampshire. The mainstream media has been hammering him on this issue and while I have been very critical of him this seems nothing more than a trumped up (pun fully intended) controversy designed to take him down because the mainstream media suddenly realizes that he could be a serious threat to the eventual Democratic nominee.

  Donald Trump defended himself by asking on Twitter, ‘am I morally obligated to defend the president every time somebody says something bad or controversial about him? I don’t think so!” He followed this up on Twitter with comments such as “this is the first time in my life that I have caused controversy by NOT saying something” and “if someone made a nasty or controversial statement about me to the president, do you really think he would come to my rescue? No chance!” and finally, “if I would have challenged the man, the media would have accused me of interfering with that man’s right of free speech. A no win situation!” And I have to admit he is 100% right!

  While at one time Donald Trump might have been the most prominent voice in the birther movement the fact is that he did not found the movement, that distinction belongs to none other than Hillary Clinton, her supporters, and some in the Democratic party.

  Here is more:

The root of the Birther/Obama-Is-A-Muslim movement can be found in Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign.

That’s a fact.

That’s science.

Hillary Clinton is the grandmother of  the Birther movement.

It wasn’t Trump who sent the photo above to everyone.

All he did was blow off a loon.

The campaign that sent out the photo above (which is not a fake — it was taken during a visit to Africa) was the Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign.

At the time, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said,

“[This is] the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we’ve seen from either party in this election”. Obama has had to spend much of the campaign stressing he is a Christian not a Muslim and did not study at a madrassa.

See, I’m not asking you to believe me. Team Obama said so.

The Clinton’s smear campaign went even further.

In a rare moment of intellectual honesty, the left-wing Politico told the truth: [emphasis mine]

Where did this idea come from? Who started it? And is there a grain of truth there?

The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama. …

The original smear against Obama was that he was a crypto-Muslim, floated in 2004 by perennial Illinois political candidate and serial litigant Andy Martin. Other related versions of this theory alleged that Obama was educated in an Indonesian “madrassa” or steeped in Islamist ideology from a young age, and the theories began to spread virally after Obama appeared on the national stage – to the casual observer, from nowhere – with his early 2007 presidential campaign. …

Then, as Obama marched toward the presidency, a new suggestion emerged: That he was not eligible to serve.

That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.

“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.

When asked by a reporter if Obama was a Muslim in 2008, she replied, “There’s nothing to base that on … as far as I know.”

    Before I continue here is the picture in question:

  As you can see the original question about Barack Obama’s true faith, and even his eligibility to run for President, came from his Democratic opponent in 2004 and was moved forward with this picture by Hillary Clinton and her supporters in 2008, which leads us to an obvious question which should be uncomfortable to the left: if the right wing is full of Islamophobic people while the left wing is tolerant why would this have even been an issue in 2004 and 2008 in Democratic circles? 

  So the whole issue was started by Democrats in 2004 and was really brought to light in 2008 and yet Donald Trump is being attacked for not rebuking a movement which was brought to mainstream America by none other than Hillary Clinton? 

  If you are one of my leftist friends you need to start doing a little soul searching; you need to ask yourself how you can condemn Donald Trump for not defending Barack Obama against an attack on his faith when most likely you will be supporting the woman who first questioned the President’s faith. It seems a little hypocritical to me, I would expect this from the mainstream media because it has an agenda, are you willing to ignore this to promote your agenda?

  Be honest with yourself, it will not be easy and believe me I know, but it will do you good…

Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietum servitium