What Donald Trump fails to realize is that Hillary Clinton is tough, really tough. Perhaps what I most admire about her is that she just keeps coming even though the Republican Party has viciously tried to destroy her for 25 yrs through lies and overemphasizing some faults. To a great extent, the media has gone along - she doesn't smile enough, her big laugh sounds phony, she doesn't sound genuine, etc etc etc. Personally I think her smile and laugh are just fine. That is what you need in a glass ceiling breaker: Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead.
You don't hear Hillary getting much credit for her life-long effort in providing for the betterment of children. How can you say this is not genuine?. She has even been criticized for writing a book titled, "It takes a Village To Raise A Child." (https://www.amazon.com/Takes-Village-Tenth-Anniversary/dp/1416540644) Well, negatives are more news worthy and Clinton's message is basically optimistic and upbeat.
Trump was stalking Hillary at the debate on Sunday night (October 10th). Women found him "scary." She should have called 911.
"If a man did that to me on the street ... I'd call 911, political commentator and former Republican strategist Nicolle Wallace said."*
And then there were the interruptions, something he was criticized for in the first debate. In the second debate he managed to interrupt Clinton six times in one Clinton answer.** This may be some sort of a record. Not only that, but he interrupted the moderator.**
Among other things, Trump says he will lock her up if he wins the presidency. In fact the TV media has frequently shown the clip of Trump saying he will conduct an independent council to look at Hillary if he is elected. I think they are supposed to spend roughly equal time on each candidate but they aren't. All along, Trump has been getting free advertising worth millions of dollars.
Yet, Republicans seem to be reassured by Trump's belligerence. "Morning Joe" Scarborough seems to be ecstatic over Trump's brawl Sunday night. Early polls seem to show that Trump has recovered from the tape where he talks about his sexual exploits. It is at times like this that I doubt the wisdom of the American voter, but as Winston Churchill said, " Indeed it has been said "...that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…"***
To me, Trump sounds like he is giving the dying gasps of the bull in the bullring. Time will tell how much sympathy the voterrs have for the bull. Whatever the outcome, I think the long friendship that used to be between The Donald and the Clintons is over for good.
* http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-presidential-debates/presidential-debate-trump-accused-stalking-clinton-stage-n663516
** http://fusion.net/story/355799/times-trump-interrupt-hillary-debate/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-debate-trump-takes-on-moderators-almost-as-much-as-clinton/2016/10/09/b668c192-8e7f-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html
*** https://richardlangworth.com/worst-form-of-government
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Thursday, March 12, 2015
IS INEXPERIENCE A REQUIREMENT FOR THE PRESIDENCY?
As I hear criticism of Hillary and Jeb as being too "old school" or whatever the words, it seems that being president requires that the successful candidate be inexperienced. Consider George W. Bush (Bush-43) and Barack Obama who really had very little experience in the various aspects of the presidency, especially foreign policy, before becoming president. And Bush-43 managed to not only get us into the quagmire of Iraq but preside over the greatest economic collapse of the country since 1929.*
Now look at the Republican candidates for president. A number of them won't even have survived a whole term as Senator by 2016 (Marco Rudio-elected 2011, Rand Paul-2011, Ted Cruz-2013). None of these will have completed even one term as Senator by the time of the 2016 election.
And then there is Tom Cotton, though not a presidential candidate yet, who has been a Senator for barely more than 2 mo. who managed to stampede 46 of his colleagues into sending a letter to the Iranian Ayatollah and create an international incident. Even senile John McCain now has reservations about doing this.
Though I feel Bobby Jindal has no chance to obtaining the Republican nomination, he seems to want to be a candidate and is somewhat more experienced than those mentioned above having served two terms in Congress and now as governor of Louisiana.
I don't know how good a president either of Hillary or Jeb will be (You won't know until they do it if elected.), but at least they have experience relevant to running things.
* Many assume that everything in Iraq would be all right if only Obama had left 10 or 15 thousand troops there (presumably under Sharia law). We did leave 10-20 thousand troops in Afghanistan after running the Taliban into Pakistan, however, and they came back stronger than ever. So I have my doubts. We'll never know.
Now look at the Republican candidates for president. A number of them won't even have survived a whole term as Senator by 2016 (Marco Rudio-elected 2011, Rand Paul-2011, Ted Cruz-2013). None of these will have completed even one term as Senator by the time of the 2016 election.
And then there is Tom Cotton, though not a presidential candidate yet, who has been a Senator for barely more than 2 mo. who managed to stampede 46 of his colleagues into sending a letter to the Iranian Ayatollah and create an international incident. Even senile John McCain now has reservations about doing this.
Though I feel Bobby Jindal has no chance to obtaining the Republican nomination, he seems to want to be a candidate and is somewhat more experienced than those mentioned above having served two terms in Congress and now as governor of Louisiana.
I don't know how good a president either of Hillary or Jeb will be (You won't know until they do it if elected.), but at least they have experience relevant to running things.
* Many assume that everything in Iraq would be all right if only Obama had left 10 or 15 thousand troops there (presumably under Sharia law). We did leave 10-20 thousand troops in Afghanistan after running the Taliban into Pakistan, however, and they came back stronger than ever. So I have my doubts. We'll never know.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
WANT TO RELIVE THE 90S?
Do you want to relive the 1990s we are asked about Hillary and Jeb? Well, yes. Who wouldn't. They didn't start out all that well, but certainly gathered steam and had the greatest stock market ever with 5 yrs of 20% or more gains (Yes, a bubble, but it went on for years.). The Federal budget had positive cash flow for four straight years, once even without "borrowing" from Social Security. There was lots of job creation. We were even worried about paying off the Federal debt too fast! Remember that?
It had the only war won by air power alone without "boots on the ground" (Kosvo, remember that?).
The 90s had the only president (Bill Clinton) who didn't have a recession. In fact, the only president who didn't have a recession in his first term, but added the second term for good measure.
There was only a low-level war in Iraq called "drive by shootings" where our aircraft would take out radar installations. It began with president George H.W. Bush (Bush-41) kicking Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, but who was smart enough not to overthrow the Iraq government in the process. We only had a silly impeachment proceeding and the usual silly attacks on a president (e.g. the travel office, Whitewater, commodity futures), but, granted, these sorts of attacks have seemed to get worse with time.
It was the only period when I felt prosperous. My wife was yet to have a stroke, and we did a lot of travel. Even my being fired by the government in Al Gore's Reinventing America crusade ended up being more of a blessing in that I was no longer involved in being a Civil Servant "political football." Yes, I would take the 90s in a heartbeat.
It had the only war won by air power alone without "boots on the ground" (Kosvo, remember that?).
The 90s had the only president (Bill Clinton) who didn't have a recession. In fact, the only president who didn't have a recession in his first term, but added the second term for good measure.
There was only a low-level war in Iraq called "drive by shootings" where our aircraft would take out radar installations. It began with president George H.W. Bush (Bush-41) kicking Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, but who was smart enough not to overthrow the Iraq government in the process. We only had a silly impeachment proceeding and the usual silly attacks on a president (e.g. the travel office, Whitewater, commodity futures), but, granted, these sorts of attacks have seemed to get worse with time.
It was the only period when I felt prosperous. My wife was yet to have a stroke, and we did a lot of travel. Even my being fired by the government in Al Gore's Reinventing America crusade ended up being more of a blessing in that I was no longer involved in being a Civil Servant "political football." Yes, I would take the 90s in a heartbeat.
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