GOOD GRIEF

The bride at every wedding; the corpse at every funeral - who? Good grief, how can such a skinny ass President hog so much space in the public’s eye? Seneca wrote that “Light griefs are loquacious, but the great ones are dumb.” Obviously for President Obama (and VP Biden), the grief of losing 29 coal miners is light because the big O again will be loquacious and shallow in a speech at the miners’ memorial service. The grief of the public ( including myself), however, is so great and deep as to render us speechless ( present blog excepted). Let’s remember that the big O promised to bury and BANKRUPT coal mining and put the fossil fuel devils out of business just a short time ago. Oh yes! With the big O, no statement has a truth date; all facts have expiration dates. At the public’s expense ( why do both Pres. and Vice-Pres. need to attend? ), hypocrisy, not genuine grief will be on display at a genuinely sad occasion. No doubt Obama will blame a greedy corporate owner and negligent regulators and dress down profit taking and dependance on unclean, unnecessary and dangerous coal mining. The big O will again make a mockery of a memorial ceremony. I am struck dumb with grief that America has come to this on yet one more occasion of sinful hubris and narcissism. Barack the Shameless, why can you not be silent?