The President Has a Lot of Chutzpah

The term shonda is a highly evocative one in Yiddish. Basically, it means that something is a shame, but it confers a lot more than that. It means that someone's actions disgrace not only himself but his family and all those that associate with him.

The President's speech to the American Legion last week was a shonda, a true shame that disgraces not only himself but also his administration and, really, all of us as well. The President is now telling us that we are taking care of our veterans better than ever before, and that more young American blood must be spilled because we have to keep Iran in check.

I'll let that digest a bit.

The enormity of the shonda, the near criminal shame that comes with those statements, should be considered slowly and deliberately.

This President, who in no way mobilized this nation for war, either in preparing its military for the attack, nor to care for its wounded members has the chutzpah, the sheer audacity to say that his administration cares for veterans. This President who sent and still sends our youth off to die and be blown to pieces in a war for his place in history dares to cozy up to our veterans, to attach himself to the American Legion to bolster his own disgraceful legacy.

Moreover, this President has the nerve to then, once again, repackage his disgraceful motivations for war as a deterrent to Iran. Of course Iran wants to go into Iraq. Our President created a power vacuum. To try to pass off needing to keep a major force in Iraq as being due to anything other than his own disgraceful, shameful mistake is truly a shonda that will disgrace and hurt us all for years to come.