Posted by Tina
If you follow the “Hillary for president” media, the big headlines after Trumps speech this morning are screaming words like authoritarian, vengeful, demagogue, protectionism, isolationism, nativism, lawlessness, economic catastrophe, dark..terrorist! These are partisan journalists that give high praise to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama who use lovely sounding words like fairness, hope, and change (except for the times when they are dividing the American people by class and race). The problem with the happy talk is this: Hillary and Obama have been in control of our nation for almost eight years; the dark picture is of their doing The reality of our circumstances is real and acutely felt by average Americans:
1. Americans with college grads living in their basements.
2. Americans who can’t find a good job with decent wages.
3. Americans who’ve seen their premiums continue to rise on policies with deductibles so high they might as well not have health insurance.
4. Americans whose children have been murdered by foreign criminals who were released again and again by the courts to prey on our citizens.
5. Americans whose businesses have failed.
6. Americans whose businesses have been stifled and blunted by onerous regulations and taxes.
7. Americans who have been targeted for harassment and destruction by IRS, Justice, OSHA, EPA, and other agencies because of their political or religious beliefs.
8. Americans that have been blown up in terror attacks.
9. Americans who’ve seen police officers demeaned, maligned, and used as targets to create anger and hate…and then seen that anger and hate manifest in murders, the knock out game, violent protest and property damage.
10. Americans whose incomes have been stagnant while the cost of living rises.
11. Americans who’ve seen the national debt double.
12. Americans who’ve seen the military decimated, used for social experimentation, and required to fight a war with rules of engagement that make them vulnerable and unable to defend themselves
13. Americans that saw Ambassador Chris Stevens fed to the wolves in Benghazi, dropped into a war zone without proper security and once under threat betrayed and left to die without the force of the US military might to rescue and save him.
14. Americans that saw lies and excuses told to cover for the egregious failures, before, during, and after in Benghazi.
15. Americans that saw ex-Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, dangerously use a private server on multiple devices to hide her work and, even though a very strong case for indictment was made, was excused.
16. Americans that have watched as the rich get rich and the middle class and poor get poorer and more dependent…there has been no opportunity for upward mobility.
17. Americans have watched as our standing in the world has fallen and been discredited.
18. Americans that saw the current administration make deals with a sponsor of terrorism.
19. Americans that have witnessed an explosion of war and instability in the Middle East and the spread of ISIS across the globe.
20. Americans that have seen world economies and security in tatters.
These things and more illustrate and define the result of the fairness, hope, and change that the American people were promised with much fan fair by Barack Obama and the Democrat Party in 2008. In 2016 Americans are discouraged and dismayed. They want no part of this happy, phony talk. American’s understand that the dark dismal world we now experience was created by Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, and the policies of the Democrat Party.
The president this morning denies the dark reality listed above. According to Obama, who lives in Washington DC in the big white house, the world is doing just fine. In his world of lavish vacations and golf games, high priced clothing and food, and servants handling your every desire, everything is just fine. In this world where government employees see regular pay raises and BONUSES (Even after illegally targeting citizens) yes, the people are doing just fine.
The president and his party elites live in la la land. The press joins them in la la land…they all party together.
Next week it’s the Democrats turn to promote their candidate. Watch as they blame their opponents for the state of the country described above. Watch as they pretend they have the answers for the American people going forward, as if we haven’t noticed it is they who have brought us to the precipice with their dependency and redistribution policies. It is they that have exploded terrorism in the world. It is they that have created division and animosity among the people based on lies and ugly targeting games.
Americans have a lot to look forward to in the future because Americans know that what we have seen over the last eight years is not the America we have known…all it requires is new leadership.
Americans love the idea that anyone, no matter their race or station in life, can rise to whatever heights their ambitions will take them. Americans love the idea that they have the power to direct their own lives. Americans love having choices and being able to live as they choose rather than being put into boxes and directed according to the one size fits all of central planning and big government control. Americans love to be charitable. Americans naturally embrace people of differing backgrounds but resent being taken advantage of because of our prosperity. Americans prefer to live and let live, embracing tolerance as well as respect for others with our households being our castles and civility the norm in the public square. Americans welcome immigrants that come here LEGALLY. Americans appreciate and support the rule of law. Americans appreciate and support and our law enforcement and military and the work they do to keep us safe and secure…and we demand our governments support of them! Americans are in favor of good conservation and care of our planet but don;t think we need to destroy businesses to accomplish that worthy intent. Americans love our nation and embrace the idea of a unified, strong America.
Democrats have poisoned the American well. Americans are not the mean, racist, biased people that the Obama administration describes as a means of dividing us by class and race. The Democrats have attempted to co-op our ideals and replace them with collectivist ideals based on Marx’s notion, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need,” a cynical arrogant ideal that has failed in governments run by dictators and tyrants of central planning all over the world. Hillary Clinton represents this world view, a world view that holds the individual in disdain. She should never be president.
There are other choices but none that will win. We Americans have only one choice in November and that is Donald Trump.
This article says it all. This is why I am voting for Trump and against Hillary. For the last 8 years I have watched my modest income shrink, thanks mostly to an Obama economy, Californian’s high taxes and federal socialism (more taxes). They all eat up too much of my profits and that weakens my business.
I don’t trust Hillary to do the right thing anymore. I’m not sure about Trump, but I am sure about Hillary. That means I would have to be stupid to vote for Hillary after what she’s done and the lies she’s told. The woman is a danger to us, so Trump is the man and I hope he can do what he says.
Don G thanks for taking the time to express your thoughts on Post Scripts. I have a feeling there are a lot of people who think exactly as you do. I’m also a business owner. I’ve seen my sales slowly decline over the past seven years as the economy bumped along at the bottom. We’ve been hanging on by thread. But I’m near retirement age, its the younger generations that have lost years of earning power and opportunities for upward mobility. It’s just plain wrong what this administration and it’s party have done through their high tax and regulate, redistribution policies.
The attitude of the left electorate that has been represented on these pages is surly and vengeful toward those who create jobs and those who keep our country safe.
Sad times. Thanks for voting Trump. As you say he’s an unknown but I know that if he can enact some of his policies our economy will do better.
Even Breitbard.com has started referring to CNN as the Clinton News Network . . . . Understand that Van Jones last night had a meltdown during TheDonald’s speech.
I’m With You resonates MUCH more than I’m With Her . . . .
Boy isn’t that the truth! It’s obvious she’s out for Hillary and no one else.
I understand CNN also cut away their coverage when a minority and the parents of those killed by illegal immigrants spoke. It was done apparently to make the convention look like the GOP is only made up of whites and they only care about whites.
I watched it on CSPAN without commercials and even noticed the cameraman would zoom in on minorities as if to point out the fact that minorities of all types, color, age and sizes were there.
The Clinton News Network is the leader of the “ends justify the means” media club, with a tie for second and third place.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/07/19/republican-national-convention-cnn-victims-illegal-aliens/
Thank the Goddess Ailes is finally toppled. Now maybe we can have hope for your mental health. Rumor has it that the Murdock kids don’t really want to subvert our democracy by cultivating legions of ignorant paranoids, they just couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the old fart. Thank you, Megan Kelly.
As to the RNC, this is the first time I’ve actually paid any sort of concerted attention (well, only 30 seconds at a time … lord have mercy, what muck), so I have no basis for comparison. Are they always so … “Sieg Heil”? I mean, the chief reason the speech ran to 70 minutes was Trump’s encouragement of all that creepy chanting, which he himself engaged in, and which struck me as neither mature nor presidential.
And that was one mean crowd. Aren’t you suppose to chant FOR your guy, rather than “death” to the other guy? I mean, “Lock Her Up”? Is that civilized?
Frankly, you all made a poor impression.
Too bad for you Libby. Fox news will not go away or if it does it’s bright stars will not be silenced.
How petulant and petty that the major networks and lefties like you can’t handle a little competition and difference of opinion. Your need to silence others, to demean them, is pretty disturbing, very old soviet guard…very Mao Zedong-ish:
Murdoch doesn’t have enough confidence in his kids; he will run the company and Ailes will stay on as an advisor through 2018. That signals to me he will be looking for another Ailes type CEO. Ailes will do just fine and, I imagine, enjoy many more years of success. Did you know he and Barbara Walters are good friends?
Kelly and Carlson disappoint. Kelly’s complaint is extremely weak especially after accepting promotions and big bucks as a darling of the network for so long…must have been terribly traumatized by that “hug.” Carlson might be even worse, she seems motivated by sour grapes since she too has waited years to become traumatized and affronted.
“Are they always so … “Sieg Heil”?
Good grief Libby, you aren’t very observant are you!
“…all that creepy chanting”
You mean like, “O-Ba-Ma, O-Ba-Ma, O-Ba-Ma”? Please!
“Aren’t you suppose to chant FOR your guy, rather than “death” to the other guy? I mean, “Lock Her Up”? Is that civilized?”
Absolutely when an explicit case has been made and no indictment follows! (I know if she were a republican you’d be screaming for her head and you do too)
“you all made a poor impression.”
I wouldn’t be so sure were I you. All of the left media criticism is like that of a wounded animal and not at all convincing.
I rejected my parents’ WASP values. Now I see we need them more than ever.
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“I had confused their social discomfort with condescension and their conservatism with callousness.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/07/15/i-rejected-my-parents-wasp-values-now-i-see-we-need-them-more-than-ever/?tid=sm_fb
This liberal journalist finally gets it about her parents values, yet seems clueless that the current climate of anger and frustration has been brought on by the wholesale destruction of those very same values
Couldn’t read the article; I have no inclination to become a subscriber.
The first step always seems to be recognizing our parents weren’t so dumb after all…maybe there’s hope but some liberals are true believers and as we’ve seen, quite cynical and resentful toward authority figures and notions of rules or values.
The destruction is quite remarkable and it’s accelerating rapidly now.
Did the link throw a subscription wall at you? Never did for me. Who knows? Anyway, author is Pamela Constable. Below is text of article.
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My parents were the kind of polite conservatives who would have been appalled by this year’s Republican presidential campaign. They belonged to that stuffy but understated class of Eastern WASPs who were gently mocked by the late satirist William Hamilton in the New Yorker. His cartoons depicted a world of Wodehousian clubbiness, cocktail parties and golden retrievers in station wagons. One of my favorite scenes, found in his collection “Anti-Social Register,” shows a middle-aged woman at a party, looking horrified at something a man is explaining. “I simply can’t believe that nice communities release effluents,” she protests.
I grew up in Hamilton’s world, on a winding road in Connecticut near a country store and a rambling clapboard house that was the home of Sen. Prescott Bush. All the adults I knew were old-school WASP Republicans like the Bushes. I had a great-uncle who was an admiral and a godmother who was an Astor. They were gracious to everyone, self-reliant and discreet, and secure in their pedigree. There was no need to raise one’s voice or belittle those less fortunate. If one’s forebears had built empires in such grubbier pursuits as fur-trapping or rum-shipping, the taint had been washed away by generations of Ivy League respectability, good taste and noblesse oblige.
Priscilla and Cheston Constable seemed to fit the stereotype perfectly. My father, a communications executive at IBM, took the train to Manhattan every morning and mowed the lawn on weekends. My mother, a former fashion designer, volunteered at the library, arranged flowers and hosted lively dinner parties. Her philosophy of life was, “If you can’t find something nice to say about someone, don’t say anything.” I never once heard them argue.
My childhood was a cocoon of tennis and piano lessons, but once I reached my teens, disturbing news began filtering in from the world beyond. An alumna of my elementary school gave an impassioned speech about her summer registering black voters in the South. At boarding school, a current-events teacher introduced me to McCarthyism and apartheid, and I watched the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. Filled with righteous indignation, I memorized Bob Dylan songs about poverty and injustice and vowed to become a crusading journalist. Above my study carrel, I taped the famous journalistic directive to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
The most convenient target I could afflict was my parents, who seemed more worried about their daughter turning into a hippie than about a world full of rampant wrongs. I wrote them earnest letters railing against capitalism, country clubs and colonial exploitation. I accused them of being snobs and racists and scoffed at their preoccupation with appearance. If they were hurt or offended, they never let it show, in part because I kept getting A’s and dutifully stood through numerous fittings for my debutante dress.
I hardly saw my parents during my four years at Brown, a tumultuous time that included the bombing of Cambodia and the resignation of Richard Nixon. Soon after graduation I was gone, immersed in big-city newspaper work. I spent a decade writing about alcoholics and juvenile delinquents and slumlords. Eventually my reporting took me even farther afield, to impoverished or war-torn countries such as Haiti and Chile, India and Afghanistan. It was an adventuresome and stimulating career, but it was also a kind of private atonement for having grown up amid such privilege. I rarely told anyone where I was from.
Over time, my relations with my parents settled into a long-distance detente that was affectionate but formal. We sent each other thank-you notes and avoided talking about politics. Yet even though I had run as far from Connecticut as I could, every time I called from another war zone or refugee camp, they always asked eagerly, “When might we see you again?” The guest room was always waiting, with a few ancient stuffed animals on the pillow.
Still, it was only after witnessing the desperation and cruelty of life in much of the world that I began to reexamine my prejudices against the cloister I had fled. In some countries, I saw how powerful forces could keep people trapped in poverty for life; in others, how neighbors could slaughter each other in spasms of hate. I met child brides and torture victims, religious fanatics and armed rebels. I explored societies shattered by civil war, upended by revolution, and strangled by taboo and tradition.
Visiting home between assignments, I found myself noticing and appreciating things I had always taken for granted — the tamed greenery and smooth streets, the absence of fear and abundance of choice, the code of good manners and civilized discussion. I also began to learn things about my parents I had never known and to realize that I had judged them unfairly. I had confused their social discomfort with condescension and their conservatism with callousness.
I owe these belated epiphanies to an old friend and fellow Connecticut preppie, Elizabeth Neuffer, who’d also become a war reporter. A few months before she died in an accident in Iraq, we met for dinner, and she told me that her deepest regret was losing her father while she was overseas. “Whatever you do,” she said, “make sure to spend time with your parents before it’s too late.”
I took her advice to heart. As their health declined and their horizons shrank, I stopped traveling as much and started coming home more often. I accompanied them to cocktail parties and listened to stories from their old friends. Well into their 80s, Priscilla and Cheston were a handsome and active couple, and they still cared about things I did not, such as keeping up their club memberships and their listing in the New York Social Register. My father, a dapper dresser with a walking stick, was famous for his sardonic quips and vodka martinis. No one knew how much his arthritis pained him, because he always refused a chair. My mother, who had been a designer of ladies’ gowns for Henri Bendel in the 1940s, hosted dinners wearing her own elegant costumes and held guests spellbound with her tales of the postwar Manhattan social whirl.
But now, for the first time, I saw something deeper and sadder beneath their practiced cheer. Long before their success, they both suffered growing up during the Great Depression and “the war,” as they always called it. My mother’s family lost their savings in the crash; her parents divorced, and she was forced to leave an elite private school to become a dressmaker. My father went straight from college into the Army with a captain’s commission and spent his service jumping out of planes as a paratrooper instructor — a repeated feat of courage I rarely heard him mention. He loved to make things with his hands and dreamed of becoming an architect, but after the war he was steered into the more secure world of corporate America, which paid for nice houses and good schools but gradually crushed his spirit.
Eventually, I saw how loss and sacrifice had shaped both my parents, creating lifelong habits of thrift, loyalty, perseverance and empathy for those who suffered, despite an unconscious unease with other races and classes that I’d always found hard to forgive. Rummaging through their apartment in a Connecticut retirement complex, after my mother moved into a nursing facility, I found evidence of their character in every corner. The cabinets contained wrench sets and garden shears my dad had kept in working order for half a century, and on the kitchen wall was a calendar he made each month out of cardboard shirt backs. He could easily afford the latest gadgets, but he was a true conservative who couldn’t bear to waste anything of value.
In my mother’s antique desk, I found a folder labeled “important correspondence.” Inside it, along with invitations to long-ago society balls and notes on monogrammed stationery, were half a dozen letters on lined school paper, written in a careful but shaky hand. They were from an old black man named Mr. Jenkins who had once helped her with the laundry. He was a lonely soul who drank too much and wound up in a VA hospital; the letters thanked her for being kind and treating him with dignity. At the end of his life, my mother was this man’s only friend, and his gratitude meant as much to her as an engraved plaque.
On long evenings together in the apartment, my father and I sipped whiskey sours, watched the news and discussed politics for the first time in years. He had always taken classic Republican positions against excess welfare and foreign aid, but now he confided that he was appalled at the tea party, especially its harsh stances on abortion and guns, and disillusioned by the radicalization of the GOP. I was fairly sure he had not gone so far as to vote for Barack Obama, but it occurred to me that our cerebral and courtly African American president, struggling against the tide of an angry, visceral age, had more in common with this elderly WASP gentleman than did many white Republican leaders of the moment.
In March 2013, Dad passed away at 96; my mother followed him at 97. I was relieved that they had not lived to see their party’s new standard-bearer hurling vulgar taunts and whipping up xenophobic crowds, or to witness the rout of the rational, civilized conservative norms that had defined their lives and guided public policy for a century.
Recently, when I learned that William Hamilton had died in a car crash, I thought it was a sad but fitting coda for the demise of WASP influence. The sheltered subjects of his cartoons had become a sidelined aristocracy. But at least in my family, their influence lived on: After years of joking that we cancelled out each other’s votes, I realized that the values that mattered the most to me, especially a fundamental respect for the dignity of all people, were those I had learned from them.
Thanks for posting this in full. Yes, I did encounter a subscription wall. Apparently they allow three views per month for free and I have already exceeded their limit.
This was a very nice piece and I’m glad this woman eventually came to value her parents as more, and better, than she imagined them to be. And I hope one day she will come to see that long before there were tea party folks with “harsh stances on abortion and guns,” there were cold and uncivil liberals imposing ridiculously harsh regulations against the unborn child and accusing gun owners of being murderers and racists, among other things. The constant drumbeat of lies tends to make folks angry after fifty years!
“They (taxes) all eat up too much of my profits and that weakens my business.”
You’re not thinking about this right. You don’t have “profits” until after you’ve paid your taxes, and this is how you structure your fees/pricing. And Tina is right. This complaint does not get much sympathy. Because another way to read it is: “I have to pay taxes, so I can’t have a pool.”
Boo Hoo.
You can complain about what it gets spent on, not about having to fork it over. Somalia is the place for people who don’t want to pay taxes.
You certainly are welcome to your opinion Libby. But Don’s complaint wasn’t about having to “fork it over.” That’s an expression of your inherent biases.
In fact Don clearly expressed that he survives on a modest income from his business.
His complaint and mine is about the way onerous taxes and regulations destroy the economy generally and blunt economic opportunity. 2% growth or less over nearly eight years is abysmal and has destroyed not only many small businesses but many jobs as well. Without sufficient business profits in small businesses dry up so that continuing into the next year, paying employees, and purchasing needed equipment is compromised. Your answer isn’t a better economy and more jobs. Your answer is putting Don on food stamps and letting his business fail. How stupid is that when a small adjustment would grow the economy, create many more workers (taxpayers) and higher profits (more taxes)?
Your ignorance and resentment toward the people who hire others is deplorable. I don’t much appreciate your nasty attack on someone new to the blog either!
In no other election in my lifetime is “If you can’t decide whom to vote FOR, at least figure out whom to vote AGAINST” a rallying cry of voters.
With all his supposed warts, TheDonald is still the better choice rather than 4 more years of lying, obfuscation, ignoring the Constitution and downright criminal activity.
“Your answer is putting Don on food stamps and letting his business fail.”
You hyperbolize, as always. Don’s business is not failing. He’s just not clearing as much as he’d like, and failing to consider that his taxes make a nice safe place to do business in.
Could the tax code use work? Positively. But the bad attitude is not doing Don, or you, any good.
“Don’s business is not failing. He’s just not clearing as much as he’d like, and failing to consider that his taxes make a nice safe place to do business in.”
How the he77 would you know? Lord you are one nasty mean spirited ignorant person!
I can’t speak for Don but I can tell you that in eight years my business has suffered a long sad (unnecessary) death spiral.
“Could the tax code use work? Positively. But the bad attitude is not doing Don, or you, any good.”
You and your party’s attitudes are not doing Don, me, or many other American any good. Your party’s attitudes are divisive. You think deciding life’s winners, and losers, should be regulated and success awarded according to committees in DC…effort and merit mean nothing! It amounts to playing god in peoples lives, Libby and it”s wrong!
Hot Air cites The Brookings Institute:
As a freedom loving, TAX PAYING American, I say your views on taxes, redistribution, and business stink!
I was interested in what took place the first day when all hell broke loose over the adopting of the rules, so have been reading as much as I could find.
The rules adopted would apply for this convention and end just prior to the next one in 2020, when new and changes to rules will be proposed and voted on.
Conservatives Mike Lee, Ken Cuccinelie and others obtained the majority of delegate voters from 10-11 states for an amendment that would return the authority back to the states to have open or closed primaries. Open primaries allow non-republican voters to vote for Republican candidates, while closed allows only Republicans to vote. The goal was to return to conservative values and stop the liberal progressive slide.
The RNC had other plans and promoted a false narrative that the proposed changes was about taking the nomination away from Trump, which was mathematically impossible to do. He had won fairly with way more votes than needed. The RNC did not want to give up their control, so hid the secretary and posted a guard to keep certain individuals away from her to hinder the states from filing their amendment forms with the required number of names.
Apparently, when behind the scene arm twisting didn’t work, mics were shut off and a quick plan was developed backstage where they would announce the required number of states hadn’t been met because of the withdrawal of enough unnamed states to invalidate placing the request on the agenda.
It became evident when Alaska reported their delegate count which was split three way between Trump, Rubio and Cruz, but the chair reported out all of the votes for Trump. When all of the other states had been cast Alaska challenged what had been recorded as different than what they had officially reported. After polling each delegate it was announced per the rules, the same ones that had previously failed, that the RNC had assumed control of their votes, because of certain changes they had made with their delegates participation. The RNC ensured they had the right to control how the states voted this year and they set it up to guarantee they will in 2020 too.
The RNC may have won this battle, but with true conservatives like Lee and Cuccinelie I don’t believe the war has been declared yet.
Read all about it here.
An Inside Look At How The RNC Steamrolled Conservatives:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/7703/inside-look-how-rnc-steamrolled-conservatives-hudson-talley
For those interested in the Cruz vs Trump debate here are a couple of links I found of interest.
Also, I do find it amazing that House Speaker Paul Ryan and chair of the convention didn’t endorse Trump either before or during the convention and it was no big deal. Mean while Cruz is being vilified and his reelection run in 2018 is being threatened.
I don’t consider announcing Trump as the winner an endorsement. If anyone does find a video of Ryan endorsing Trump please post.
Trump Says Cruz Changed His RNC Speech :
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/watch/trump-says-cruz-changed-his-rnc-speech/vp-BBuFSl9
Full Transcript Of Ted Cruz Speech At RNC:
http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2016/07/21/full-transcript-of-ted-cruz-speech-at-rnc/
Interesting, Cruz’s speech that was available on line and on CSPAN just yesterday has disappeared. Any way, I read the speech while I listened to it and it is word for word the same, with the exception of when he makes a comment to the NY delegates when they were booing. Trump saying he added to it at the beginning is a lie.
From Ben Shapiro
Here’s Everything You Need To Know About Cruz’s ‘Vote Your Conscience’ Speech:
http://www.dailywire.com/news/7663/heres-everything-you-need-know-about-cruzs-vote-ben-shapiro