Posted on 09/05/2017 4:07:23 PM PDT by Twotone
Any fair assessment of our President is that he is flawed as a person. His sense of self much exceeds the norm. Some of his insults famously transcend those we associate with the meme “Politics Ain’t Beanbag.” On discrete occasions, he has disappointed staunch supporters by punctuating certain powerfully valid viewpoints with “facts” that are so demonstrably wrong that they approach the coveted Gold Standard for Public Falsehood established by the dual-gender political tag-team of Clintons and exceeded only by Barack Obama. (See also: “Shovel-ready jobs”; “If you like your [ ], you can keep your [ ]”; “More young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America”; Solyndra.) President Trump infuriates his foes and leaves his supporters ofttimes squeamish.
Shall we rue his election, as “Never Trumpers” continue to do? Well, first of all — He’s what we’ve got for the next 41 or 89 months. Had we gotten Hillary instead, we would not have encountered fewer lies from the Oval Office, nor from whatever new bathroom she would have selected to store her next-generation stealth computer server. In a world where Benghazi was caused by a YouTube video that almost no one saw — and which no one conceivably viewed through its painfully not-soon-enough conclusion — and in which a Secretary of State had exchanged tens of thousands of emails regarding her yoga classes and daughter’s wedding dress, one need not fantasize to grasp how much public lying would have emanated from a new Clinton West Wing, Oval Office, and from under the President’s desk had we been Hillaried.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
His success much exceeds the norm. Both in politics and the private sector.
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I’m so sick of these turncoats.
We are all flawed, and Trump comes nowhere near approaching the Clintons, the Obamas, and all their staff, at lying.
This person disqualified themselves as a reasoned person before ever getting to the point.
As for being brash, take a look at Washington and the nation right now, and tell me one person that wouldn’t be totally disgusted and spitting nails at this moment.
Go Trump.
meh
Damning with feighnt praise
Another editorial from Opposite World.
The author is feeling his way in the dark toward the truth, but it ought to be obvious for all to see. For a Republican, you either convince enough voters not to trust what the mainstream media says about you, or you lose.
I am so sick of these righteous hacks who have to always start any discussion by casting dispersions on the President. It is as if it is a penance that must be offered before they can tell us what they want to say. It has become the standard prelude to every writing. Why is this President supposed to be a perfect human being anyway? What is it with this penchant to have to always throw stones at this President? I am sick and tired of their righteous indignation! My guess is the root lies in a jealous streak over the man’s achievements in life and it is their feeble way to demean him.
What’s this? Another turncoat screed from a (((neocon)))? How surprising.
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>> “A Flawed Fake Nooz media Whose Pugnacious Divisiveness Uniquely Suits the Moment’s Need for trash talk.” <<
After the frightful harpie we dodged last election, Trump almost looks like Yeshua himself riding in on his white horse to make things right.
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The head,one for this is a disgrace.
No human being is perfect - men are not angels.
And yet - Trump has proven himself to have so many qualities we associate with the great and the divine. Kind, intelligent, charming, tough, patriotic, family focused and Christ-loving.
He has proven himself to be a man without equal in modern times.
I truly believe that the Lord sends to our world figures of outstanding quality when Christendom appears on the brink of destruction. Winston Churchill, George Washington and Alexander the Great were all such men.
Trump’s personnel qualities and the impact his story is having also means he now sits along such company
This is just plain incredible.
Where was this observation during the past eight years?
When I think of all the years and money I wasted on this scummy globalist rag...
Oh shut-up already and keep your opinion about President Trump to yourself.
Should have left it at “uniquely suits the moment’s need.”
He’s not flawed and quit letting the left frame your argument for you. Quit being a sissy and stand-up for what is right; you will never convince the left or get on their good side or find principled ground for compromise with the left.
To be honest, I don’t find the article to be aggressively anti-Trump
and it does point out his positive traits and strengths.
Is there really anything wrong with that, or is it a compliment?
To be honest, I don’t find the article to be aggressively anti-Trump
and it does point out his positive traits and strengths.>>> yes but you have to actually read the article. not just the headline. But if you read the headline anyone can post comments about the article and the author.
>>Any fair assessment of our President is that he is flawed as a person.
I stopped reading after this absurd statement. Why? Well, as any educated person, or any person with commonsense, is aware, there never was and never will be a single person who is NOT flawed.
I believe you and I are the only ones on this thread who actually read the article. It is tiresome and lazy when posters go negative without even opening the link. The writing, while typical of today's lonely keyboarding and posting without a tough editor, is too long and wordy in places; but in other ways it is brilliant, as is the author, whose biography I looked up after marveling at a few of his exceptional prose passages. Dov Fischer's insight and wit is on a par with Steyn and Greenfield.
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