A Child's Garden of People to Ignore at Times of International Peril

Once upon a time, a bad thing happened. Then, it came here. And people got all scared and everything. They wanted the president to do something so they wouldn't be so scared anymore but all he wanted to do was be president and try to find a solution to the bad thing that happened. That scared them even worse. So they said stuff like this:

We don't need another so-called 'czar'; we need presidential leadership. This is a public health crisis, and the answer isn't another White House political operative. The answer is a commander in chief who stands up and leads, banning flights from Ebola-afflicted nations and acting decisively to secure our southern border. The Ebola outbreak shouldn't be treated as yet another partisan battle by the White House; rather, we should come together in bipartisan unity to take these common-sense steps to protect the American people. And if the President will not act, if he will not lead, then Congress should immediately reconvene for an emergency session to enact a flight ban and take any other necessary measures to protect the health and safety of Americans.

And this:

"The president has to very seriously consider the fact that we don't want people from infected areas to be flying into the country. This is difficult enough to deal with, the problem we currently have."

And they tweeted stuff like this:

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If this doctor, who so recklessly flew into New York from West Africa,has Ebola,then Obama should apologize to the American people & resign! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2014

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Ebola has been confirmed in N.Y.C., with officials frantically trying to find all of the people and things he had contact with.Obama's fault — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2014

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I have been saying for weeks for President Obama to stop the flights from West Africa. So simple, but he refused. A TOTAL incompetent! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2014

And then the president helped make the bad thing go away, and America got all better, and these three guys went on to be the last three people standing for the Republican presidential nomination.

The End.

Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

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