Render: President sure isn't a bronc rider

The University of Tennessee has told its staff and students to stop calling each other “he,” “she,” “him” and “her” — and to start referring to one another with terms like “xe,” “zir” and “xyr” instead.

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This should come as no surprise to anyone who follows news at any level whatsoever. After all, the government of the United States refers to the P5 +1 agreement as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran deal, the nuclear deal, the Iran nuclear deal or any other euphemism rather than what it actually is.

This nuclear agreement should have been presented to Congress as a treaty, no matter what it’s called. In an unusual outburst of honesty, Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the deal wasn’t a treaty simply “because you can’t pass a treaty anymore.”

To further thwart the U.S. Constitution, the president sought approval for the agreement from the United Nations Security Council, prior to getting Congressional approval and touted the fact that the motion passed the Security Council unanimously.

The Security Council is made up of 15 nations that include Russia, China, Angola, Chad and Venezuela, none of which could be construed as stalwart friends of the U.S. Additionally, the Constitution makes no mention of seeking approval from the United Nations Security Council prior to any U.S. agreements.

Obama said the vote “will send a clear message that the overwhelming number of countries who not only participated in the deal ... but who have observed what’s happened, recognize that this is by far our strongest approach to ensuring that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon.”

“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”

“I am neither a king nor an emperor. I cannot just change the immigration laws with an executive order.”

And now, from a speech at American University, “We have achieved a detailed arrangement that permanently prohibits Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”

“It cuts off all of Iran’s pathways to a bomb.”

Followed by an admission to the Jewish Federation of America that after 15 years, Iran might “feel comfortable enough, cocky enough, to say now’s the time ...” they could build a nuclear weapon.

When I was young, we used to say, “You can ride one bucking horse and that don’t make you no bronc rider; you tell one lie and you’re a liar for life.”

President Obama ain’t no bronc rider.

Rube Render is the Curry County Republican chairman. Contact him at:

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