Posted on 12/15/2015 3:07:30 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
It is time to look more seriously at the Donald Trump presidential candidacy....
...For the first time in its history, the United States has had four, and arguably five, consecutive terms of unsuccessful federal government, from administrations and Congresses of both parties.
The last Clinton term under-reacted to the original terrorist incidents at the Khobar Towers (1996), the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam embassies (1998) and the USS Cole (in 2000); and stoked up the housing bubble through the Community Reinvestment Act and executive orders to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to invest massively in sub-prime mortgages.
George W. Bush responded well to terrorism, and his economic countermeasures were adequate after the 9/11 attacks, but he did nothing to let the air gently out of the housing bubble, his response was contemptibly inept when the economic crisis erupted, and his intervention in Iraq was for unsubstantiated reasons...
Obama has doubled the national debt accumulated in 233 years of American independence in eight years, not really produced an economic recovery, facilitated nuclear weapons for Iran after a great deal of purposeful braggadocio, and humiliated the United States by drawing and erasing a “red line†in Syria and being chased out of its air space by the Russians.
Two-thirds of Americans, in all polls, feel the country is headed in the wrong direction, Obama does not get a positive job-performance rating even in the most leftish polls, and a majority consider Obamacare to have been a retrograde step. It is unlikely that the United States has been less respected in the world than it is now, at least since the time of Hoover, who was blamed for the worldwide Depression, if not since the prelude to and early days of the Civil War.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
I do disagree with Conrad Black on Bush II taking out Hussein. That was a good move. The BAD move on Bush’s part, imo, is that he didn’t immediately put in a strong man to wipe out the remaining scumbags in that country.
Of course, Obama made it even worse by retreating.
ISIS isn’t wiping out Christians and peaceful Muslims (e.g. Kurds) in the Middle East because of BUSH. ISIS exists being Obama and Hitlery ran away, turning the region over to the savages.
Black is also wrong on what he calls the inadequacies of Presidents Harding and Coolidge. He ought to read carefully Paul Johnson’s “Modern Times” pages on these two men and how the history books have given them the shaft.
The liberal media establishment is frenzied in its animosity to Donald Trump, and their hysteria is becoming more vociferous and desperate as he utters clangorous violations of the normal parameters of political discourse. The echo chamber explodes, the commentariat foams at the mouth, but he seems to pay no penalty in the polls. I think there are two explanations for this: Donald doesn’t really say such outrageous things as his opponents spinningly impute to him; and vast sections of the population are more bitterly disappointed and angry at the deterioration of their country and the misinformation of the mainstream media than the subjects of that resentment can imagine.
Pure gold.
“Donald Trump - who, I should disclose, is an old friend, a fine and generous and loyal man, and a delightful companion - is striking very close to the heart of the American problem: the corrupt, dysfunctional political system and the dishonest media.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428506/donald-trump-good-guy
Thank you.
“a fine and generous and loyal man, and a delightful companion -”
Pretty much what I have intuited about him.
He’s putting a lot of words in Trump’s mouth that the candidate himself hasn’t said.
He’s putting a lot of words in Trump’s mouth that the candidate himself hasn’t said.
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Agreed but I still like the personal comments that Trump is loyal and generous from someone who knows him.
TTTT
good explanation of Clinton bush obama
I’m concerned now. NRO has been 100% against Trump from day one. If they start praising him, maybe it’s time to reconsider.
? What does that mean?
Trump To The Top
The explanation is simple: The last President of the U.S. who wasn't a criminal owned by the international totalitarian Marxist/Muslim oligarchy was Ronald Reagan.
Errrr...uh, okay.....
“Trump To The Top”
Very nicely done, Guenevere.
Trump To The Top (TTTT)
Actually Ben Carson and Alice Cooper ( who play in the Trump
Foresome ). Said the same thing on Fox the week after he announced. Carson admitted that they have known each other for decades. Cooper compared his own public persona (rock star) to the real person —married 40 Years -Sober 30- born again Christian who works with troubled youth
Both said he was most considerate, generous , thoughtful and fun
Good. I’m glad you’re not one of those dupes who believe every Republican candidate/President is a patriot! The Bushes have been gangsters for several generations.
Uh, errrr...okay?
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