11-20-2019, 08:28 AM
Remember -- an impeachment of this President is a warning to every President from hereon -- do not be a criminal while President. This will be a warning about corrupt deals... and (I would love to see the president's pointless abandonment of the Kurds in Syria as part of the bill of impeachment) crimes against humanity. If there is some attempted quid pro quo in our involvement in South Korea, then we need to deal with that.
The Presidency is not a means for getting rich. OK, book deals after the fact or being a well-paid official of a foundation -- well, that is collateral benefit. As voters we need to learn an important lesson: we need a good person as President no matter what his political stances are. I thought that we had fair warning when Donald Trump was exposed for saying something abominable on an open microphone. Well, it is up to all of us to assume that everybody is a potential 'open microphone' even if there is no obvious microphone. But from all accounts the Clinton Foundation is a
I have no children, including daughters, but if I had one and one of these circumstances emerged:
(1) her boyfriend (or girlfriend, were such the case) bragged about grabbing females by their "kitty-cats" I would demand that she break off the relationship if she were still dependent, or would give strong advice to break up the relationship.
(2) that if someone grabbed her by her "kitty-cat" without her consent, I would counsel her to discuss the matter with the DA's office. The term for such behavior in Michigan is "criminal sexual conduct", if not rape in the event that there be penetration.
Character is destiny, and Trump exuded bad character. We should have known better than to elect him.
Business? Another President had business failures too, and the first four letters of his surname were T-R-U-M, too. He went into politics and found that he was a better politician than a businessman, and never turned back. But Truman was young, and his business failures did not involve cheating people. Truman related a story of how he could have gotten rich as a county judge (the office had no judicial function): in the 1920's, he insisted upon good roads in Independence. The roads had to be built well enough that they would last a considerable time. In a neighboring county, one contractor built pie-crust roads that crumbled after a few months. That contractor offered Truman an opportunity -- that by building pie-crust roads instead of the better ones in Independence, the contractor could pass along some of the savings to him as a bribe. Truman rejected the offer. I'm not saying that the roads of Jackson County, Missouri are better than those in neighboring counties to this day... but we get the general idea.
...I have no idea why Mitt Romney did not run for the Presidency in 2016. He did about as well as one could challenging an above-average President, so he should have had a good chance in an open-seat election. Maybe it was for reasons of health -- his wife has MS. Consider how different things would be if Mitt Romney were President. There would be no culture of corruption in and around the Presidency. If there had been a nasty little scrape, then Barack Obama might be useful under the circumstances instead of being a political pariah at the decision of the President. There would be no capricious foreign policy. Romney would have told Erdogan to deal with the Kurds in Syria as a non-threat, and he would never have found any attraction in dealing with Emperor Kim Jong-Un.
The political debate going into 2020 would be very different, but there would be no fear of a despotic President.
The Presidency is not a means for getting rich. OK, book deals after the fact or being a well-paid official of a foundation -- well, that is collateral benefit. As voters we need to learn an important lesson: we need a good person as President no matter what his political stances are. I thought that we had fair warning when Donald Trump was exposed for saying something abominable on an open microphone. Well, it is up to all of us to assume that everybody is a potential 'open microphone' even if there is no obvious microphone. But from all accounts the Clinton Foundation is a
I have no children, including daughters, but if I had one and one of these circumstances emerged:
(1) her boyfriend (or girlfriend, were such the case) bragged about grabbing females by their "kitty-cats" I would demand that she break off the relationship if she were still dependent, or would give strong advice to break up the relationship.
(2) that if someone grabbed her by her "kitty-cat" without her consent, I would counsel her to discuss the matter with the DA's office. The term for such behavior in Michigan is "criminal sexual conduct", if not rape in the event that there be penetration.
Character is destiny, and Trump exuded bad character. We should have known better than to elect him.
Business? Another President had business failures too, and the first four letters of his surname were T-R-U-M, too. He went into politics and found that he was a better politician than a businessman, and never turned back. But Truman was young, and his business failures did not involve cheating people. Truman related a story of how he could have gotten rich as a county judge (the office had no judicial function): in the 1920's, he insisted upon good roads in Independence. The roads had to be built well enough that they would last a considerable time. In a neighboring county, one contractor built pie-crust roads that crumbled after a few months. That contractor offered Truman an opportunity -- that by building pie-crust roads instead of the better ones in Independence, the contractor could pass along some of the savings to him as a bribe. Truman rejected the offer. I'm not saying that the roads of Jackson County, Missouri are better than those in neighboring counties to this day... but we get the general idea.
...I have no idea why Mitt Romney did not run for the Presidency in 2016. He did about as well as one could challenging an above-average President, so he should have had a good chance in an open-seat election. Maybe it was for reasons of health -- his wife has MS. Consider how different things would be if Mitt Romney were President. There would be no culture of corruption in and around the Presidency. If there had been a nasty little scrape, then Barack Obama might be useful under the circumstances instead of being a political pariah at the decision of the President. There would be no capricious foreign policy. Romney would have told Erdogan to deal with the Kurds in Syria as a non-threat, and he would never have found any attraction in dealing with Emperor Kim Jong-Un.
The political debate going into 2020 would be very different, but there would be no fear of a despotic President.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.