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Max Lucado: Trump doesn’t pass the decency test
Washington Post ^ | February 26, 2016 | Max Lucado

Posted on 03/26/2016 10:22:03 AM PDT by Timmy

As the father of three daughters, I reserved the right to interview their dates. . . For the next few hours, she would be affected by his ability to drive a car, avoid the bad crowds and stay sober. I wanted to know if he could do it. I wanted to know if he was decent.

This was my word: “decent.” Would he treat my daughter with kindness and respect? Could he be trusted to bring her home on time? In his language, actions and decisions, would he be a decent guy?

Decency mattered to me as a dad, and decency matters to Americans. We take note of the person who pays their debts. . . When the husband honors his wedding vows, when the teacher makes time for the struggling student, when the employee refuses to gossip about her co-worker, when the losing team congratulates the winning team, we can characterize their behavior as decent.

We appreciate decency. We applaud decency. We teach decency. We seek to develop decency.

So why isn’t decency doing better in the presidential race?

The leading Republican candidate to be the next leader of the free world would not pass my decency interview.

I don’t know Mr. Trump. But I’ve been chagrined at his antics. He ridiculed a war hero. He made a mockery of a reporter’s menstrual cycle. He made fun of a disabled reporter. . . He routinely calls people “stupid” and “dummy.”

Such insensitivities wouldn’t be acceptable even for a middle school student body election. But for the Oval Office? And to do so while brandishing a Bible and boasting of his Christian faith?

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To: Timmy

181 posted on 03/26/2016 3:57:17 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Talisker
“Would that be the same General Eisenhower who murdered tens of thousands of surrendered German troops through deprivation and starvation in outdoor caged mud fields after the war, in direct violation of the Geneva Convention?”

I only know of one General Eisenhower in WWII. If there were others, I don't know about it.

More on point, I believe the charge by Canadian novelist James Bacque in his book “Other Losses” were that Eisenhower and his staff conducted a campaign of genocide resulting in the deaths of about a million German POW’s (after the war), not tens of thousands.

I have not read Bacque’s book, in part, because his scholarship is generally in doubt. However, because of your findings that General Eisenhower acted “in direct violation of the Geneva Convention”, I may have to reconsider.

First, I'll wait to see if Donald Trump issues a secular fatwa declaring that General Eisenhower is no hero.

182 posted on 03/26/2016 8:48:50 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: samantha
because he is with other women not his wife.

Yeah. I see your POINT .

But which wife are you talking about??

183 posted on 03/26/2016 8:52:08 PM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: jeffersondem

So you’re saying it never happened? That’s your position?


184 posted on 03/26/2016 8:58:35 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker
“So you’re saying it never happened? That’s your position?”

It is not like I don't want to believe everything you have said here on the Internet, I'd just like to get independent verification from Trump that General Eisenhower did, in fact, commit genocide resulting in the murder of one million German POW’s.

185 posted on 03/26/2016 9:20:40 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem
You said a million, based on a source you deemed incompetent. You also claimed that source is the only source for this story - why? The story is established multiple places, here's one: The Sorry Fate of German POWs
186 posted on 03/26/2016 10:53:47 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: jeffersondem

Again, from Trump?

WTF are you talking about?

You find this subject funny?


187 posted on 03/26/2016 10:55:01 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: kinsman redeemer

The one that had a breakdown because of his sleazy indiscretions. He makes slick Willie seem like an amateur.


188 posted on 03/27/2016 2:43:23 AM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight....)
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To: Talisker

“Again, from Trump?”

I have been told Trump is the only person we can trust to tell the truth.

And, Trump-the-history-teacher does seem to have facts that no one else has ever heard.


189 posted on 03/27/2016 8:23:18 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Talisker
“You said a million, based on a source you deemed incompetent. You also claimed that source is the only source for this story - why? The story is established multiple places, here's one: The Sorry Fate of German POWs”

I went to the source you recommended, “The Journal of History.”

Among the articles available on the site are those entitled:

“Held in a Psychiatric Ward & called delusional for saying 9/11 was an inside job”

“NASA flight director confirms 9/11 aircraft speed as the elephant in the room”

“BP crop dusting U.S. population under the cover of night”

“Iraq war for Zionism and/or for world conquest”

And my favorite - “Cancer Cure Asparagus — who knew?”

190 posted on 03/27/2016 8:53:07 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: samantha

Oh! Sure.

Not really.

Bye.


191 posted on 03/27/2016 11:39:43 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: Timmy

Bumping this because of the new article regarding Beth Moore and Max Lucado.


192 posted on 10/24/2016 7:01:58 AM PDT by madison10 (Praying for team Trump.)
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To: Timmy

Hillary is so fetid and putrid she can’t rish high enough out of the cesspool to be considered for the decency test.


193 posted on 10/24/2016 7:11:01 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: Timmy
But...Hillary and her in control of the nation...is just quite fine with him.

Don't ask for my help when they shut down your house, your speech, your business.

194 posted on 10/24/2016 7:16:03 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Cover up after cover up...OUR GOVERNMENT is OUT OF CONTROL)
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