"While Trump had been on good behavior briefly in the past only to return to 'Trump being Trump' mere hours later..."
After a preface and disclaimer like that, who could possibly take this guy seriously?
Are these self-proclaimed experts really that stupid? Trump is Trump. The Art of the Deal guy is The Apprentice guy is the Trump’s Wings (from SNL) guy. He’s not some cardboard cutout, like professional politicians, who exudes a certain well-crafted and consistent persona in all situations.
He’s a human, like us “little people” that the pundits make fun of. In the primary, he got us interested and then made us believe. Now, its time for the Big Show and he is showing America that he IS a Chief Executive, while the “front-runner” is hiding, stumbling, coughing, and dodging the law.
Same person, different events.
The off-the-cuff, entertaining Trump was called upon to win the nomination.
Now the focused Trump will win the General Election.
Same Trump, different events.
Trump 2.0 kicking ass!
Like Trump, The Founding Fathers Weren’t PERFECT EITHER!
A few months ago, I wrote and posted a defense of Donald Trump entitled “Why Would We Elect as President a Guy Who...? In it, I attempted to point out that MANY of those we have elected to the White House (as well as the myriad men and women who occupy high positions) have been – like ALL of us – frail, flawed and fallen fellow human beings and, yes, sinners.
My defense of Trump – but, more critically, the vital need to keep the most corrupt candidate to run for the office in my lifetime OUT of the White House – has led me to do further research into the personalities and character some of the men who played pivotal roles in the formation of this country. I wanted to try and learn if some of THEM would have sparked #nevertrump like groups to spring up in opposition. I cite below some of the fairly well documented historical information I have uncovered.
(For the sake of brevity, I have omitted footnotes. If anyone wishes them, please request via email and I’ll send them.)
“The Father of Our Country, George Washington began producing rye whiskey at Mount Vernon in 1797, reaching a peak production of over 11,000 gallons per year by 1799. He was the largest producer of whiskey in the Colonies. Imagine this fine Christian gentleman becoming a producer of – HORRORS – WHISKEY!! You can still buy his original recipe from the folks now running Mt. Vernon. Search on-line for “George Washington Rye”.
Mt. Vernon is regularly picked by #neverwashington and Christian Temperance groups.
“Whatever qualities define a Founding Father in the minds of many Americans, Thomas Paine probably lacked most of them. He was, according to one acquaintance, ‘course and uncouth in his manners, loathsome in his appearance, and a disgusting egoist.’ And yet this new immigrant from England became the voice of the early Revolution.’ His outspokenness at times got him in trouble, and he often found himself enmeshed in colonial scandals.”
“If Ben Franklin was the elder sage of the Revolution, Washington its heroic warrior and Jefferson its rarefied intellect, John Adam was its messy, tenacious, disputatious, verbose conscience. The powerful French minister the Count de Vergennes once told Congress that Adams ‘...has a rigidity and arrogance and obstinacy that will cause him to foment a thousand unfortunate incidents.’ Adams himself once said ‘Popularity was never my Mistress, nor was I ever, or shall I ever be a popular Man.’”
When the 5 man committee to draft the Declaration of Independence was formed, they assigned Jefferson who “...had a reputation of a masterly pen” the task of writing the document. Years later Adams admitted that he removed himself from consideration as he was “obnoxious, suspected and unpopular.” As we all know, despite being “obnoxious, suspected and unpopular” Adams went on to become President.
His enemies often referred to Alexander Hamilton as the “bastard boy” . From the West Indies, his mother, estranged from her legal husband, bore him in a relationship with another man. Hamilton went on to provide invaluable service to the new nation, creating and standing up numbers of institutions that exist to this day.
At 70 years of age when he participated in the drafting of the Declaration, Benjamin Franklin was the elder statesman of the move for independence. A successful businessman and widowed in 1774, he was also later renowned as a lady’s man – and the younger the better. During his frequent visits to Europe, first to England before the Revolution to plead the cause of American independence then to France to enlist French aid in the war with George, III, the stories of Dr. Franklin’s love of the freely given attentions of the ladies were legendary. As what we now call a “senior citizen” it’s doubtful that Dr. Franklin was “up” to return their affections in a more than grandfatherly manner. That said, some things are best left unknown.
While I COULD go on longer, here I shall end this truncated tale of the strong, intelligent, principled, yet FLAWED men who loved America – the IDEA – enough to risk death at the hands of a tyrannical king.
If you cannot draw a parallel between them and the strong, intelligent, principled, yet FLAWED man who also loves America – the IDEA – enough to leave his successful and affluent PRIVATE life in what could well be the last opportunity to snatch America back from the tyrants of today, I fear that I have just wasted the 2 hours it took me to compose it and the 10 minutes or so it took you to read it.
And for that I humbly apologize.
Dick Bachert
8/20/2016
Trump’s last couple of speeches have been more substantive, but he sounds as if he’s going out of his way to sound as if he’s reading them. And he’s shouting EVERY LINE. And waiting for applause after every line. IOW, he’s sounding like a politician.
"While Trump had been on good behavior briefly in the past only to return to 'Trump being Trump' mere hours later..."
After a preface and disclaimer like that, who could possibly take this guy seriously?
Trump’s sense of timing and is probably somewhat better than average.
They noticed, they just don't want the public to notice. It does not fit the template of the reckless world smasher they have been painting him with. They want the evil witch to win.
Trump gave great speeches after Orlando and the speech he made about Hillary, but they didn’t get much press.
Phase III Of the campaign
He was up against a slew of professional empty-suit politicians and knew he had to differentiate himself from the crowd, while also keeping himself in the news. He got millions in free advertising doing this.
Furthermore...
Nothing’s changed. He’s always been there.
If you were buying a car and the only two cars available were the Trump and Hillary cars, what car would you buy? You go into the lot and see them. First you go over to check the Hillary car. Something is not right. Is this a new car? You haven't seen it before. There are minor scratches on the finish. You guess that's OK. Then, you open the door to look inside and it smells like a dead rat--uuuggh! You lift the hood and the smell hits you so hard you fall to the ground. I told you to grip the wheel and fasten the seat belt. I forgot to tell you to bring a barf bag. It is the car of corruption, deception and fabrication.
After managing to get back on your feet and wipe your chin, you go over to the Trump car. You look at it all over. You wouldn't want to be cheated with a car that hides a piece of junk with a nice wash and wax job. The paint job looks good--check! You check out the car further. New tires--check! You open the door and it passes the smell test--check! You look at the interior and there are no rat droppings and the upholstery looks brand new--check! There is a good radio and it sounds good--check! You start its engine and it actually ran good--check! A test drive tells you there was truth in the advertising. It was a great car--bingo! You decide to buy the Trump car even though the opposition car folks said it was a piece of junk.
Currently there are only, "TWO CARS" in America, at this time, to select from. There may be other cars on the political landscape, but they are non-starters. We may see them on the lot, but we know they soon will become stacked up in the political wrecking yards. Many are the result of wrecks and only good for parts. Most are rip-offs made on a shoe-string budget that fall apart soon after you buy them. We know to avoid them as wise car buyers. America has only two choices.
I will take my analogy further. What the Democrats have done is put a car, out of the wrecking yard, on the sales lot. What I hope, for Americans to do, is check out the car and see for yourself what a pile of junk the Hillary Car is.
This is my most poignant (i.e. pungent to the smell) conclusion from this car analogy: The Democrats are set to rip-off America using the Hillary Car and the Clinton's Foundation money to line their pockets.
The 1947 Hillary Car.
Give me a break! How disingenuous can you be? Only the the feigning fools who pretend they could not see the real Donald Trump until now fall back on this meme. The truth is, they never bothered to look or listen to the man until now. Well, better late than never for these Johnnies come lately. Welcome aboard the Trump Train.
Guys like Kaminski must be simply clueless about their own ignorance.
As they watch their peers awakening to reality, the have that red pill or blue pill choice. And, of course, the CYA thing.
Guys like Kaminski must be simply clueless about their own ignorance.
As they watch their peers awakening to reality, the have that red pill or blue pill choice. And, of course, the CYA thing.
Need to keep the other player(s) guessing, change the way you play and keep the opponent guessing.
D. Trump won't hold a temperament long enough for them to get a lead, a tell, before he changes it up, leaving them guessing his next move.
He has been doing this successfully all his life.
He did it to 16 other contenders, and blew their doors off.
Now it is one on one, finals, and they are both looking for weakness while waiting to pounce.
Trouble is, D Trump is not making any predictable moves.
Clinton, and the entire nationwide media, print, video and radio, have been unable to get a fix for 18 months.
It is a sight to behold, and watch the master ar work.
Smart.
It doesn’t matter where he’s been, he’s here now and we are still two months from Election Day. Hillary can’t win the race in August.