Posted on 09/15/2015 4:38:44 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
Of course, in some ways it is, but in many ways, Donald Trump is also correct that “We can’t do anything right. . . . We’re being swindled by everybody. . . . We’re a laughingstock. . . . Our foreign policy is a disaster run by dummies.” The greatest nation in history has become, to borrow a phrase from the great Peggy Noonan, in another context, also a “bumsquat Egypt” type of country, and Americans are right to be mad as hell about it. Mr. Rubio cannot really dispute the accuracy of most of what Mr. Trump says, and the old chestnut that “America’s greatest days are ahead of it” is little heard in this campaign and would not resonate well even with what is left of Norman Rockwell-style Americans, wherever, in the bowels of the country, they may now reside.
The Economist, in its uncomprehending British sobriety, knowledgeable but laboriously serious, objects to Mr. Trump’s sexual references — not just his (outrageous) imputation of menstrual discomfort to the irresistible Megyn Kelly, but also his references to Democrats as “impotent” — as well as such an unceremonious debunking of the foreign-policy establishment as the description of them as “dummies.” But the Obama administration is impotent, and Secretary of State Kerry is a “dummy”; that is exactly what he is — that is le mot juste. Donald Trump has the charm of an Archie Bunker, straight-talk style and wit, with the credibility of an educated and successful businessman and promoter and showman.
I must, and am pleased to, disclose that he is a friend, a loyal friend in past difficulties, and I know him to be a generous man, a marvelous raconteur, and a very positive person whose use of superlatives is part of a generally positive nature.
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Great article tho not entirely positive about Trump.
Ping
I didn’t like it at all since the author thought that Carson or Fiorna would be a good VP pick, but Trump not good as a president. Some friend!
Not really.
It is not failure I have a problem with so much as I sent a bunch of people to Washington and they are not even trying.
There were things they could have done for sure and things they might not have been able to do but they could have gone down swinging on.
But unless the fight is a slam dunk and the media will say nice things about them they sit on their hands and cry.
Read the tea leaves.
>> Archie Bunkers . . . dislike ostensible Americans who don’t speak English, not English-speaking Americans who also speak other languages (as have many presidents and presidential candidates, including both Adamses, both Roosevelts, Nelson Rockefeller, and Mario Cuomo) <<
Here we have a colossal display of ignorance by Lord Black, who obviously doesn’t know that President Herbert Hoover spoke Chinese.
(Yes, you can look it up.)
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