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I remember when sending condolences when one of your political opponents died was viewed as graceful and even expected. Now it’s a weakness? Or is it that the black woman needs to be criticized for everything she does?
I remember when HL Mencken wrote an obituary for William Jennings Bryan that was so scathing in its honesty that it's still talked about a hundred years later. Interestingly enough that was during a time when politics was doing the kind of great revolutionary things that American government was actually supposed to be doing, which it currently is not.
Telling the truth about matters of public importance even when it hurts somebody's feelings used to be a core value in this country. I get that she's friendly with the family. If she wanted to just say some brief words of condolence it's fine. But taking extra time to shine him up and pretend his time entrusted with the power generated by the people was spent on anything other than killing motherfuckers and stealing money is a massive disservice to this country.
When you're entrusted with that public sword, you're supposed to do something good with it. Pretty much everyone who voted for Kamala knows Cheney was one of the chief villains of the modern era, and doesn't mind saying so, and is going to think it's bizarre and crooked that she's out here lying about his record to try to pretend he was a decent person.
It's the latter. People needed another reason to hate her and blame her for everything.
Yes, obviously the reason that I disapprove of her sending condolences about the man behind torturing Iraqis and Afghans is because I'm just a huge racist. You might think that standing up for the rights of those people would be a sign of anti-racism, but that's just ridiculous. Obviously, everyone knows those people are subhuman and beneath consideration, so the only reason anyone would pretend to care about them is because they're desperate to find something to attack a black woman politician with. It's the same way nobody would actually consider the lives of Palestinians to be worth anything, it was just an opportunistic way to criticize her. /s
I guess that all makes sense from your extremely racist, twisted perspective that regards Iraqis, Afghans, and Palestinians as subhuman. Some of us though have this wild and crazy idea that black lives still matter even when they're from another country.