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America Deserves Better, Or Do We?
Townhall.com ^ | April 11, 2016 | D.W. Wilber

Posted on 04/11/2016 6:56:43 AM PDT by Kaslin

Sometimes I wonder.

This political season has given us much entertainment from both major parties. Hillary and Bernie for the Democrats, and Trump and Cruz turning in banner performances for the Republicans. Great entertainment, but very little leadership or hope for America’s future.

Aside from her history as one of America’s most corrupt, dishonest and despicable politicians in American history, Hillary will now be widely remembered more for barking like a dog for the whole world to see.

That image, one of the most hilarious and entertaining images ever on display in a national political contest will surely come back to haunt Hillary for years to come, regardless of whether or not she wins the presidency. But an absolute certainty if she does win the presidency!

“Madam President, what’s your position on America’s economic health ?” “Arf, arf, arf, arf.” Madam President, how about the threat of Russian expansionism ? “Arf, arf, arf, arf.” The possibilities for our enemies to ridicule Hillary are simply endless.

I can see edited video creations showing up on YouTube for every issue that faces the president and the country. If actually elected, the presidency under Hillary Clinton will become even more of a joke than it has been under Barack H. Obama. Especially if she’s wearing an orange jumpsuit and giving press conferences not from the White House Press Room, but from the ‘visiting center’ at a federal penitentiary.

Picture it: Hillary sitting on the other side of a glass window with phone in hand fielding questions from reporters on the other side of the glass window, with phone in hand. The visual alone is hilarious.

And the fact that she can’t seem to dislodge a doddering old closet communist from the Democrat Party’s nomination process tells one something about Hillary’s favorability among voters even in her own party.

Even though there are many young people “feeling the Bern,” in large part due to his promises of free stuff for everyone, Bernie is simply an old fool playing to audiences of people obsessed with themselves. The ‘Me-Me Generation.’ If Bernie were a ‘colonel’ he’d be offering free chicken to everyone!

On the Republican side we have a billionaire businessman who can’t keep track of what he says from one day to the next, often times contradicting himself in the same day. Not to mention the countless hours of video footage archived that show him in a much less than favorable light on just about every subject discussed.

His main claims to fame in presidential politics is a promise to “build a wall and have Mexico pay for it,” and to “win, win win.” Though he’s never been able to articulate how he’s going to achieve these goals. Voters are supposed to simply trust him to do it.

Trump’s main opponent on the Republican side, Ted Cruz, is a junior senator from the Great State of Texas whose sole achievement during his short tenure in the U.S. Senate was to shut down the government.

His record certainly doesn’t include any notable legislative accomplishments. While everyone acknowledges his skills as a debater, merely being able to perform on a stage isn’t necessarily indicative of presidential leadership.

And then there’s John Kasich. The apparently tone deaf governor of Ohio who seems to think that bragging about his long tenure in Congress is something Republican voters will view favorably, when the reality is that Americans are fed up with ‘career politicians.’ Maybe that’s why he’s trailing so far behind the others.

It would seem to me that we Americans deserve so much better than the politicians that we’ve saddled ourselves with for decades now. But then again when only half the population ever taking the time to vote on Election Day - legal voters that is - and many of those votes are based simply on whether there’s an ‘R’ or a ‘D’ next to the name, we really only have ourselves to blame.

So maybe we get exactly what we deserve.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: Massachusetts; US: New York; US: Vermont
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1 posted on 04/11/2016 6:56:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Actually we don’t.

I’ve become convinced that something close to a working majority of our population agrees with Bernie.

Once enough of them start voting regularly it’s lights-out.


2 posted on 04/11/2016 6:58:26 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

AMERICANS deserve better.

America, on the other hand, I’m not so sure.


3 posted on 04/11/2016 7:00:32 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
working majority of our population agrees with Bernie.

I thin you mean non-working majority, LOL! They sure do love other people's money.

4 posted on 04/11/2016 7:04:26 AM PDT by austingirl (Cruz 2016)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I am thinking now that if Trump or Cruz are denied the nomination, that I am going to vote demorat in every single national election presented to me. I won’t vote for hitlery or the bern, but I won’t vote for the GOP nominee either. I will vote straight conservative on all state level and lower races I can, but if GOPee does this, they need to be destroyed.


5 posted on 04/11/2016 7:04:59 AM PDT by lafroste
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To: Kaslin

My three little dogs were deeply offended by her barking and will not be voting for her.


6 posted on 04/11/2016 7:06:30 AM PDT by austingirl (Cruz 2016)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Equating the candidates is just meme-building and spin.

Partisan Media Shills Alert!


7 posted on 04/11/2016 7:07:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Kaslin; xzins
So maybe we get exactly what we deserve.

Yup.

8 posted on 04/11/2016 7:08:50 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: Kaslin
It's God who deserves better than
what Americans has been offering.
9 posted on 04/11/2016 7:09:41 AM PDT by WhatNot (The Gospel doesn't promise the American dream, it promises Eternal life in the Kingdom of God.)
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To: Kaslin

Sadly over the past fifty years America has entered an era of post Christian, neo pagan epicurean decadence. Widespread drug use, fornication, sodomy, pornography, earth and celebrity worship, chronic dependency has become the norm. The vile Obama was not elected and reelected in a political or cultural vacuum. Historically most great civilizations have experienced such a decline. America has always seemed to parallel the Roman experience. What has happened in America once happened in Rome. When Rome entered its terminal decadence, the leaders it spawned were of very low quality. They reflected the values of the population that spawned them. No student od history should be astonished, perhaps wistful and upset, that Hillary Clinton, an inherently dishonest and corrupt woman, very well may become President of the United States.


10 posted on 04/11/2016 7:10:35 AM PDT by allendale
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To: lafroste

K Street and the Chamber of Commerce DESERVE to live a few years under a Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren administration.

Then they can come groveling back to us, begging forgiveness.


11 posted on 04/11/2016 7:11:54 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: lafroste

You had better read what you wrote as you make no sense whatsoever.


12 posted on 04/11/2016 7:13:46 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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13 posted on 04/11/2016 7:13:49 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Kaslin

..between 50 and 60 million unborn children say no...


14 posted on 04/11/2016 7:14:18 AM PDT by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: Kaslin

15 posted on 04/11/2016 7:15:12 AM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That is an outstanding point — you want to feed the creature when it seems to come in handy, perhaps a lesson in what it does when it gets too big to control is in order.


16 posted on 04/11/2016 7:15:15 AM PDT by L,TOWM (Is it still too soon to start shooting? [No social transformation without representation])
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To: lafroste

I disagree. The republican state & local committees are just as corrupt as the national RNC. If you really want to change things run for state committee


17 posted on 04/11/2016 7:15:47 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue (Proud to be an Infidel)
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To: P-Marlowe; Kaslin

Was it you who put up the Daniel “even the basest of individuals” bible quote about those God might elevate over a nation? Daniel 4, iirc.


18 posted on 04/11/2016 7:16:49 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Kaslin

Between abortion, and electing LBJ, Clinton and Obama, we probably deserve God’s wrath.


19 posted on 04/11/2016 7:18:30 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Kaslin
We need political, religious and business leaders at all levels who are unafraid to tell America that we have been using up our seed corn for decades, and that it will take decades of what a great man called "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" - in a word, austerity - to get back to our former greatness.

Instead we get the likes of Trump and Sanders, who tell their followers that the solutions are easy, quick and cheap, and that someone else (who is absolutely Not Them) will be forced to pay for it all.

I am reasonably confident that no one who tells Americans the truth that they need to hear will ever be elected.

20 posted on 04/11/2016 7:19:48 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (I'll sue, it's very big, horse face, believe me, big wall, tariffs, I'm rich, unfair!)
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