For a political junkie, this campaign season has got to be like Christmas morning. No, better. This has got to more akin to actually meeting the real Santa Clause on Christmas morning. Hillary Clinton certainly has brought 30+ years of her baggage to the campaign which should give columnists and pundits plenty to talk about but they are really not able to focus. Chuckles the clown on the other side of the aisle seems to dominate one news cycle after another and we are front row spectators to what might be the greatest public meltdown in history. There are reports coming out of the Trump campaign that staffers are “suicidal” and that campaign manager Paul Manafort is “phoning it in”. The GOP is furious at Trump for not endorsing Republican stalwart John McCain and top Republican Paul Ryan in their respective primary elections and the campaign is way off message assuming they even have one. There are discussions in an outside of the party what the procedure would be if Trump decides to be Trump and withdraw from the race. Trump continues to pick fights with true American heroes, federal judges, young mothers and just about anyone who dares to criticize him and against that backdrop, Trump tweets this morning that the campaign is more unified than ever. It would be laughable if it weren’t so sad. Kudos to Lawrence O’Donnell for the attempt last night on his show to lay out a case for Donald Trump’s personality disorder. For those of us who have been paying attention to “the Donald” for years, we don’t need convincing of the obvious and those supporting Trump probably don’t watch MSNBC. So nice try Lawrence but I’m afraid it was a gutter ball.
I keep hearing about “a bridge too far” and once Donald crosses it, he will endure the wrath of the Republican establishment as if that is some kind of a deterrent. Hello, wake up GOP establishment, you are the reason this clown is in the position he is in. Your endorsement or scorn is irrelevant among Trump supporters. The “bridge” to which you refer has been breached over and over again but you keep extending the line. Please don’t turn against “the Donald” because I fear if you do, he would experience a bounce in the polls that would further embolden this narcissistic, xenophobic, ego-maniacal clown you have as your standard bearer.
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Donald Trump said today that President Obama would go down as one of the worst Presidents in history. Really Donald? Political rhetoric aside, he can’t really think that. If he does, he is more unhinged than we realize or perhaps it’s just another one of his tweets or comments that he will eventually have to walk back like so many others. I will admit that rating the Presidents is an inexact science at best. You can choose a number of metrics to accomplish this task but the gaze of history may prove you to be an idiot. That being said, let us apply some sober realism to to the task. I don’t intend to try and “rate” our current President because number one, he is still in office and number two, I don’t believe any President can be fairly judged or rated without a historical context. Seriously though Donald, “the worst (P)resident in the history of the US”? Worse than James Buchanan whose inability to act led us to the brink of Civil War and threatened to destroy our union? Worse than Franklin Pierce who was so popular it took 49 ballots just to nominate him and who tried to sit the fence on the slavery issue and practiced patronage to the detriment of the country? Worse than Herbert Hoover who strongly supported a very unpopular prohibition and whose inability to act prolonged The Great Depression by who knows how long? Worse than Andrew Johnson who refused to protect the newly freed slaves, opposed the fourteenth amendment to the constitution and whose reconstruction policies were devastatingly bad for the country? Worse than Richard Nixon who used government agencies to destroy his political enemies and who was so paranoid that he ended up a national disgrace? Worse than George W. Bush who took this country into an extremely unpopular war against a country that did not provoke us? By comparison, President Obama has been a mensch. Unfortunately, when we look back and try to rate our Presidents, so much goes by the wayside. I believe Obama’s biggest problem has been the unwillingness of a hostile Congress to work with him in any meaningful way. The Supreme Court not withstanding, Congress has refused to work with this President on almost everything. I think Obama’s greatest strength is realizing that sweeping change can only happen in this country in times of national crisis and incremental change must be the goal. I think Obama has paved the way for change in the years to come, leading this country on the path to which it is already headed. In addition to that, how can you say the man is one of the worst ever when he has led us out of the greatest recessions since the Great Depression, has taken steps to see that the weakest among us have, at least, access to health care, and who hunted down and killed the perpetrator of the greatest crime against America ever. Almost everything Mitt Romney promised in the 2012 campaign has come to pass under the Obama administration and then some so I ask you Mr. Trump WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT? |