[Cringing Negativism Network]

I agree.

With the exception of Trump, who is speaking very clearly, repeatedly, and forthrightly about bringing jobs back to America, and defending our own borders.

Both of these issues, are very high on Donald Trump’s list of things which are important for America.

Nobody else is saying, what he is. Yet he is supposed to somehow be the “amateur”?

Well then, I say, gangbusters to him. I’ll vote for the amateur. For real.

There is a long time to go until the election, but the first debate is now in three weeks.

Just three weeks I think. August 6th.
http://www.2016presidentialdebateschedule.com/2015/07/potential-candidate-list-for-first-2016-republican-debate/

[HerrBlucher]

August 6th

Fitting that it would be on the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima. I hope it is just as explosive and scares away the faint of heart, which is most of the field.

[C. Edmund Wright]

I would be amused to see you try to refute this below from the article. I think a lot of what this writer said is off base and elitist - but he makes a damned good point below.

He speaks of the United States as if it were one thing, one single firm. A business. “We” are in competition with “them,” as if the U.S. were IBM competing against Samsung, Apple, or Dell. “We” are not 300 million people pursuing unique dreams and ideas, with special tastes or interests, cooperating with people around the world to build prosperity. “We” are doing one thing, and that is being part of one business.

In effect, he believes that he is running to be the CEO of the country — not just of the government (as Ross Perot once believed) but of the entire country. In this capacity, he believes that he will make deals with other countries that cause the U.S. to come out on top, whatever that could mean. He conjures up visions of himself or one of his associates sitting across the table from some Indian or Chinese leader and making wild demands that they will buy such and such amount of product else “we” won’t buy their product.

. ...to him, America is a homogenous unit, no different from his own business enterprise. With his run for president, he is really making a takeover bid, not just for another company to own but for an entire country to manage from the top down, under his proven and brilliant record of business negotiation, acquisition, and management.

All of this is true. Then again, you seem to look at America as one entity, and not 300 million people with individual goals, dreams, aspirations, etc, too. It's a foolish naive view.