Posted by Tina
Victor Davis Hansen compares Trump to others that have run for President, as well as current candidates in his piece for National Review, “Trump is crude and politically clueless, but no more so than the Clintons, Sanders — or Obama.” I’ll tease with the following quote but I assure you, this is a must read for anyone who wants to put the rhetoric around this race into perspective:
We could play this tu quoque all day long, but the fact that we can play it at all suggests that Trump is hardly, by current standards, beyond the pale, much less that he is aberrant in U.S. presidential-campaign history. He is or is not as uncouth as Barack Obama, who has mocked the disabled, the wealthy, typical white people, the religious, and the purported clingers, and has compared opponents to Iranian theocrats and said that George W. Bush was “unpatriotic” — all as relish to wrecking America’s health-care system, doubling the national debt, setting race relations back six decades, politicizing federal bureaucracies, ignoring federal law, and leaving the Middle East in shambles and our enemies on the ascendant.
Interesting how it’s assumed people on the right will not react to personal insults and provocative statements by our political opponents but we will be incited to violence when our own guys make provocative statements. Perhaps we’ve been too willing in the past to be ladies and gentlemen while our opponents stuck labels such as racist or Nazi on us.
Thank you VDH and PS. This is why I subscribe to NR.
Deluded.
His other failings notwithstanding, the O-man is the very last word in couth.
Trump is to the nth degree a boor.
And, having heard today that Dems who voted for Obama in the last elections are voting for Trump in these primaries, my faith in democracy is that much more degraded.
Not that I can blame them really. It’s just the stupidity factor.
There was some slight chance that, as Obama said he would, and we had no historical basis to doubt him, he might take on the authors of economic subjugation in the land. He didn’t, as it happened.
It’s just that, given Trump’s history, there is no earthly reason to believe that Trump will do any such thing. How can the citizens be so bloody stupid?
What did you expect from the O man when all he offered was “hope and change?”
Obama, October 2008 on CNN: “”I’m proposing a number of steps that we should take immediately to stabilize our financial system, provide relief to families and communities, and help struggling homeowners,” Obama said at a campaign event in Toledo, Ohio. “It’s a plan that begins with one word that’s on everyone’s mind, and it’s easy to spell: J-O-B-S.”
His proposal, “…a temporary tax credit for firms that create new jobs in the United States over the next two years, and penalty-free withdrawals from IRAs and 401(k)s in 2008 and 2009.
Neither of these offer incentives to create jobs. And they didn’
Obama doesn’t know any more about creating jobs today, after almost eight years, than he did in 2008.
As for economic subjugation the game plan has not changed. We have bubbles forming in the student loan area, government bonds or credit, real estate, and some equity markets. One investing expert called it the “mother of all asset bubbles” and he expected it might burst this year…woo hoo!
The always wonderful Libby sees only what she wants to see and disregards the rest.
Another GREAT article, from beginning to end.
Seven Things Trump Supporters Are No Longer Allowed to Complain About:
“Much has been made of the anger of the Trump voter this primary season. That anger is not without cause — many of us have been feeling it for quite some time, as layers of insult and injury have been heaped upon freedom-loving Constitutionalists with an indecent zeal for years now. So I get it. Where Trump voters lose me entirely, however, is not only the “solution” that they in their anger have embraced, but also the flagrant way in which they wield this anger, as though its mere possession is enough to excuse them for any actions they may take while under its influence.
Well, sorry, Trumpkins, but I’m angry too. I’m angry that people I’ve respected and groups to which I’ve freely given both my time and talents, have unceremoniously tossed aside every principle for which they once claimed to stand, in favor of kissing the ring of a completely amoral wannabe tyrant. So, in an effort to abate my own anger, here is my (non-exhaustive) list of seven things that Trump supporters are no longer allowed to complain about.”
Continued..
http://www.redstate.com/diary/angelaisms/2016/03/14/seven-things-trump-supporters-longer-allowed-complain/
Excellent analysis.
Best meme.
https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12832477_1167043823313244_4497502638861354741_n.png?oh=abc2fee7224c2e51ab3e1eb544edbc9d&oe=574C7998
Here is a propaganda piece (yet absolutely true) about who Trump is. This November, if I am forced to vote for one pathological liar, one ludicrous lunatic with idiotic policies or another will I choose Hillary or Trump?
Bet you can’t guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcjnFvJ-mUk&feature=youtu.be