Posted on 06/07/2016 9:05:49 PM PDT by Ray76
Indeed...the creaking of the vessel added imperceptibly to the background really does make it. The books it is based on are very good as well...
Thus spaketh the GOPe spokespuke for the DC Uni-Party.
It is not the lesser of two “evils” ... the only “evil” in this race is Hillary.
Good article:
The False Comparison of Trump to Hillary
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263109/false-comparison-trump-hillary-bruce-thornton
Excerpt:
Finally, if a businessman like Trump fails, he reaps most of the damage. But if a “public servant” like Hillary fails, the security and interests of every single one of us are damaged, even as she advances her own political and fiscal interests as much as Trump does. Trump’s alleged shenanigans with Trump University are nothing compared to Hillary’s exploitation of her position as Secretary of State to steer money to her foundation, which is to say to herself, her husband, her daughter, her friends and political cronies, no matter the damage to America’s interests. Trump’s inconsistencies and alleged exaggerations about his net worth or charitable contributions are a dog-bites-man story compared to Hillary’s lies about Benghazi and her private email server. Nothing Trump has publicly said or done is as self-servingly despicable as Hillary’s implications that the grieving families of the four dead Americans in Benghazi are not telling the truth about her personal promise to them to “get” the obscure producer of the on-line video supposedly responsible for the attacks, when she knew that claim was untrue.
In short, Trump has been accountable to the bottom line. Hillary has been accountable to the people. Trump has succeeded in his job; Hillary has failed abysmally at hers. Making the two equally unpalatable to the principled voter is making a false equivalence between two different kinds of public life.
Perhaps Trump’s flaws would make him a bad president. But other presidents who had flaws equally distasteful––such as Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, or Bill Clinton––managed to do some good things as president regardless. With Trump there’s at least a chance he could turn out to be a better president than his bluster and insults suggest. Hillary, on the other hand, has a long public record of using her position for personal gain, and putting her ambition ahead of her responsibilities to the country she supposedly serves. Her role as First Lady was marked by bungling health care reform, indulging silly fantasies of a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” and allowing herself––an “I am woman hear me roar” feminist––to be publicly humiliated by her satyr husband while attacking his victims. Her tenure in the Senate lacked any substantive legislative achievements, and her stint as Secretary of State furthered Obama’s destruction of America’s global influence, power, and security from Syria to the South China Sea. It may be possible that she could experience a road-to-the-White House conversion and become a good president, but given everything we know from her 25 years of public “service,” the probability is close to zero.
With Trump, in contrast, we know that at least he won’t be as destructive to our political order as Obama has been. With Hillary the odds are much higher that she will continue Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of our country into an E.U.-like technocratic regime of smug elites whose aim is to erode individual freedom and compromise our country’s sovereignty. Worse yet, if she becomes president, she will most likely nominate two or three Supreme Court justices, creating a court that will gut the and First and Second Amendments and legitimize further the dismantling of the Constitution’s divided powers and limited executive. And don’t put your faith in the Republican Senate that confirmed Loretta Lynch to shoot down every one of Hillary’s picks, even if that means eight years of an eight-member court.
The November election is not a choice between two equally bad candidates. It’s the moment when we reject the candidate who we know, based on her long public record of corruption, lying, and grasping for power and wealth, will take us further down the road to political perdition.
“Mr Popularity” speaks out
What is the approval rating for Congress?
These guys are unbelievably arrogant and detached
As opposed to voting for corporate RINOs all my life.
You should know all about that Mitch, you ungrateful bastard. The only reason you sit in the Senate is because you were chosen by the people of KY as the lesser evil in your race. Lesser evil but evil still!
While that bon mot applies to you it in no way applies to Donald Trump. We have a clear choice if we want to take back this country and make her great again! Trump is our champion. Something you would know nothing about, Mitch!
Master and Commander! I didn’t care for the movie but I love O’Brien’s books. I’m re-reading them now...for the third time. I enjoy his work and Bernard Cornwell’s more than any other contemporary authors.
Neither candidate as unpopular as the US Senate is Mitch.
I hear ya...great books. I listen to audiobooks a lot now because my eyes suck, and I really miss reading, but...if you get an audiobook that is well dictated, that can be fun as well.
One of my favorites is guy who reads the Samuel Eliot Morison works “Admiral of The Ocean Sea” and the two volume “European Discovery of America”. He has a great snooty English accent that seems to fit the material perfectly!
I’ve listened to them all on audio books as well. When the reader is talented the books are a joy to listen to. My favorites were Patrick Tull and George Guidel, both of whom are now deceased. when I read the books I always do so with their voices in my head.
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