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Walter Williams: Bad Men, Good Presidents
CNSNews ^ | August 21, 2018 | Walter Williams

Posted on 08/21/2018 8:54:29 AM PDT by jazusamo

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To: central_va

That was my first thought

He’s too accustomed to being a pet


21 posted on 08/21/2018 9:14:13 AM PDT by wardaddy (Wake up and quit aping opinions you think will make you popular here)
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To: Responsibility2nd
True. And God used a completely flawed individual to save Western Civilization. (Anthony Weiner)

And he used a six-year old Cuban boy (Elian Gonzalez) to save us from the AlGore Energy Apocalypse.


22 posted on 08/21/2018 9:15:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: jazusamo
Whatever. I figure he’s a great man, old school perhaps, but a great man who has achieved extraordinary success making things better than he found them.

President Donald J. Trump is our unlikely hero. He is the American savior.

And one of his great strengths is he knows how to pick a team who can get things done.

There are many, many outstanding people behind him, most whose names will never be known, who combine to make his presidency so powerful at such a critical “do or die” moment in our history.

They need our help. Pray like all of our lives depend on it.

23 posted on 08/21/2018 9:19:03 AM PDT by GBA (Beliefs => Reality. Believe... wisely.)
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To: rlmorel

Well said.

Isn’t it telling that one of our best presidents, Ronald Reagan followed one the worst in Carter and now another of our best presidents, Donald Trump follows another of the worst in 0bama.


24 posted on 08/21/2018 9:21:57 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

Indeed! What is that saying:

Hard times create strong men,
Strong men create good times,
Good times create weak men,
Weak men create hard times.

Thank God for President Trump. Many of us appreciate him because he deals with the Left exactly as we would!


25 posted on 08/21/2018 9:25:31 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Jim Noble

“I don’t think DJT is a bad man.”

Agree but Walter Williams is one of the few guys in the media I am willing to give a pass on that remark.


26 posted on 08/21/2018 9:27:08 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: jazusamo
I think that he'd qualify for this description: a bad man but good president.

While admittedly he's off to a good start, with all due respect to the President it's too early to call him good or bad, or measure him against others. He has 2 to 6 years left to go.

27 posted on 08/21/2018 9:30:25 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: central_va

Thank you. You just proved Williams’s point by using that crass comment.


28 posted on 08/21/2018 9:30:33 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: rlmorel

Right on!


29 posted on 08/21/2018 9:30:52 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: jazusamo

I’ve always liked W. W., but he is out of his class here. He cannot fathom the real world haggling tactics that come naturally to Trump.

W. W. is an academic head in the clouds person — less so than most economists, but never the less ...

Trump gets stuff done, under budget, ahead of schedule, period.


30 posted on 08/21/2018 9:34:20 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: j.argese

“Only a corporate tool would believe our trade policies are good for America or Americans.”

Consider the alternative. If we don’t get trade balanced, we will continue to bleed billions and billions. It is not pretty to do it, but we will win big time in the end.


31 posted on 08/21/2018 9:35:28 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar
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To: jazusamo
But then there was that impeachment issue that greatly tarnished his presidency.

I have begun to question the fairness of the process that led to that. Heck, I have started questioning the process that led to Nixon's resignation.

32 posted on 08/21/2018 9:36:28 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: PGR88

“Obama was a bad man, who became a bad President.”

More like a child I would say - and a spoiled one at that...


33 posted on 08/21/2018 9:44:20 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: dirtboy
Sorry, but the grossly misguided folks are the ones who sold American manufacturing down the river with unbalanced trade agreements. Trump is playing hardball to get those balanced.

Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!

34 posted on 08/21/2018 9:54:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (Trump's building an underground railroad... a path that leads to freedom, jobs, and dignity...)
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To: jazusamo
If, Trump was a tyrant and Hitler, all these people criticizing him would be DEAD or getting gassed!

Nothing the Media/DNC has breathlessly warned us about regarding Trump for the past 3 years, has happened.

35 posted on 08/21/2018 9:57:43 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Out of about 6 million people in the DC area, Trump is the only one not colluding with anyone!!!)
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To: Pirate Ragnar
I am not a "Free Trader" in the supposed Conservative sense. Tariffs were fine for the first 125 years. Then tariffs, income tax and other Progressive Poop were the first steps to ruination of the American economy.

Then the Post WWII economy. America was Atlas, carrying the global economy oh his back. We were playing against our own money, while Europe and Japan put their money back into infrastructure.

36 posted on 08/21/2018 10:03:00 AM PDT by j.argese (/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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To: Born to Conserve

Prof. Williams is a brilliant man.
But for some reason he does not seem to comprehend the fact that you cannot practice “free trade” economics when the rest of the world is engaged in mercantilism.


37 posted on 08/21/2018 10:28:25 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Responsibility2nd

What point is that pray tell?


38 posted on 08/21/2018 10:59:13 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Jim Noble
I don’t think DJT is a bad man.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
The wages of sin is death.
So DJT is a bad man - and what of it?

One way to look at sin is in the context of what temptations one is subject to. Your or I, for example, have not committed the sin of driving slave labor - but we have not been subject to that temptation, either. We couldn’t get away with it.

Men with the wealth of a DJT - or with celebrity or athletic glory - are subject to sexual temptation on a scale that is comparable only to the fantasies of more typical men. And the Bible calls the fantasy sin, too.

What, then, is the difference between the WJ Clinton sexual scandals and those of DJT? One difference is that those of DJT are past tense, whereas some of those of WJC were contemporaneous with his presidency. And even the “Access Hollywood” tape contained no hint of abuse of power or of violence - just failure to resist temptation to sin. Which is why it was not, in the context of a Hillary candidacy which was simpatico with Obama’s outright opposition to religious freedom of Christians (“Little Sisters of the Poor,” anyone?) and Hillary’s response to WJC’s “indiscretions” in office, disqualifying as Hillary had hoped.

Hillary looked forward to assuring that Christians would never again get a fair hearing in the federal judiciary, and Christians knew it. DJT promised that his judicial nominees would not be unfair to Christians, by specifying a long list of people he would consider possible SCOTUS nominees. The Democrats, who love to define what/who is “out of the mainstream” for the judiciary, were frozen when Trump blew that fastball right down the middle of the plate. If even one of those potential candidates had a significant skeleton in his closet, they should have pounced. But they stood there with the bat on their shoulders - and the electorate said, “Strike Three!” Now Trump has named a second SCOTUS nominee from that list - and the Democrats’ “out of the mainstream” dog just won’t hunt.


39 posted on 08/21/2018 12:07:14 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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To: jazusamo

I love Walter Williams - but he’s wrong on two counts;

1) Trump’s trade polices are not misguided. He wants free BUT FAIR trade - temporary tariffs are needed as leverage to enforce the fairness.

2) Trump is not a man of low character. Williams forgot to ask another question: “Can a good and decent man’s character be maligned by the fake news because he ran as a Republican?”


40 posted on 08/21/2018 1:44:41 PM PDT by enumerated
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