More Criticism of Trump

Donald Trump Admits His Perfect Imperfection

Lack of experience as a politician is a specious argument, when the current inexperienced president was elected twice by dumbed down voters. Trump has extensive experience making government work for the private sector. He has management experience. Gifted though he was, he ran with his gifts. 

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Trump’s political opinions have wobbled all over the lot. The real-estate mogul and reality-TV star has supported abortion, gun control, single-payer health care à la Canada, and punitive taxes on the wealthy. (He and Bernie Sanders have shared more than funky outer-borough accents.) Since declaring his candidacy he has taken a more conservative line, yet there are great gaping holes in it. His signature issue is concern over immigration — from Latin America but also, after Paris and San Bernardino, from the Middle East. He has exploited the yawning gap between elite opinion in both parties and the public on the issue, and feasted on the discontent over a government that can’t be bothered to enforce its own laws no matter how many times it says it will (President Obama has dispensed even with the pretense).
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All in all, Trump knows approximately as much about national security as he does about the nuclear triad — which is to say, almost nothing.
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Trump’s politics are those of an averagely well-informed businessman: Washington is full of problems; I am a problem-solver; let me at them. But if you have no familiarity with the relevant details and the levers of power, and no clear principles to guide you, you will, like most tenderfeet, get rolled. Especially if you are, at least by all outward indications, the most poll-obsessed politician in all of American history. Trump has shown no interest in limiting government, in reforming entitlements, or in the Constitution.
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It is unpopular to say in the year of the “outsider,” but it is not a recommendation that Trump has never held public office. Since 1984, when Jesse Jackson ran for president with no credential other than a great flow of words, both parties have been infested by candidates who have treated the presidency as an entry-level position. They are the excrescences of instant-hit media culture. The burdens and intricacies of leadership are special; experience in other fields is not transferable. That is why all American presidents have been politicians, or generals.
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Some conservatives have made it their business to make excuses for Trump and duly get pats on the head from him. Count us out. Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as the Donald himself.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430137/donald-trump-conservative-movement-menace

Against Trump
by THE EDITORS
January 21, 2016 10:00 PM

Some Suffering Is Greater Than Others?

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It can be exhausting trying to bring white people up to a basic racial literacy.
Many don’t even know what they don’t know about privilege and history, and often either don’t take responsibility for their own education or expect you to educate them.
And I wish there were a racial primer out there somewhere — mandatory reading — with five or 10 basic facts about housing, education, criminal justice and employment.
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I’m an extrovert. I genuinely love people and since we share this country, my instinct is always to try to understand. So let me say this: For everybody who recalls the hard work and sacrifice of their parents or grandparents, and all the ways they’ve had to struggle to make their way in this world, I hear you. I do not doubt the heart and authenticity of those success narratives. I just ask that you also understand those narratives simply do not hold true for huge swaths of your fellow Americans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/lonnae-oneal-a-lot-of-white-folks-could-use-a-racial-primer/2015/05/08/440657fe-f4bb-11e4-b2f3-af5479e6bbdd_story.html

Lonnae O’Neal: A lot of white folks could use a racial primer
By Lonnae O'Neal

Columnist

May 10, 2015

Obama, De Blasio Reveal Their Inexperience Every Day

Bill de Blasio and Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. in November

Photo: UPI

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Neither man can negotiate effectively, opting either to completely cave in or simply refuse to bargain. Obama gives Iran everything it wants on the march to nuclear weapons and invites the murderous Muslim Brotherhood to the White House, but won’t meet with Republicans or the prime minister of Israel.

De Blasio gives city unions sweetheart contracts, but can’t be in the same room with police and other critics.
Both talk endlessly about income inequality, but hurt the poor with self-defeating schemes for government handouts.
Another telling example is Obama’s latest outrage — his effort to draw a moral equivalency between Christianity and Islamic State barbarism.
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Having failed over six years to convince the nation that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism, he drags up ancient Christian history to silence his critics. He’s moving the goal posts, which is another way of saying, “Shut up, I’m right.”
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A recent Pew poll showed that half the country now believes ­Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence, a new high. By denying that reality, Obama fights the public, and each new atrocity only increases the distance between him and the rest of America.
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No adult who ever ran a complex organization or business would behave that way. That the president and the mayor still do reflects willful ignorance.
It’s no wonder, then, that the nation and the city are bitterly divided and badly managed, with multiple crises sapping public confidence. To expect anything better is to be as amateurish as our leaders.

http://nypost.com/2015/02/07/de-blasio-and-obamas-lack-of-experience/

De Blasio and Obama’s lack of experience
By Michael Goodwin
February 7, 2015 | 11:08pm

New York Post

White House, Lacking Military Experience, Commands With Negligent Goals, Strategy and Tactics

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Barack Obama, the president with the least understanding of military affairs of any on record, is fighting this as a limited war, a war of “containment” with no overall strategy of the moment, much less any kind of grand strategy for the long run. Obama, along with his various Middle East “experts” of the Susan Rice and Samantha Power variety, persists in stumbling from crisis to crisis, never accomplishing much, never looking forward to the next move, forever playing catchup ball. The end result has been political chaos, humanitarian disaster, and a revival of Jihadi fortunes throughout the Islamic crescent.
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An ignorant and easily-led public expecting instant results was not adequately prepared for a lengthy, grueling struggle against a canny and fanatical enemy, and soon lost patience.
The Democrats, always ready to take advantage of anything at all, no matter what the risk or cost to national security or the actual interests of the people, proved more than willing to exploit this in 2008.
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An apparent attempt at an end run around the entire problem was made through the “Arab Spring,” an effort to “democratize” the Middle East which ended in absolute disaster. We know very little about the details behind this effort (Benghazi is only the upper part of the iceberg), our honest media having absolutely refused to look into it.
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Nobody trusts a United States run by Obama, Kerry, and Hagel. Would you?
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The future progression is easy to predict. This is a Vietnam strategy, produced the same way that the Vietnam War was produced -- through less-than-competent individuals overthinking the situation in attempts to account for every last variable before ever making a move.
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So the first phase of the war, under Bush, was a success on its own terms. The second, under Obama, is a disaster of near-apocalyptic proportions. Tens of thousands have already died, millions will join them, possibly no small number of them on the streets of American cities.
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World War II is the American model: the country gearing up as a whole for a swift, overwhelming effort to destroy three evil and menacing empires. The war lasted roughly three-and-a-half years and ended with the total destruction of the enemy and the near-universal punishment of the aggressors.
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every Islamist is his own death camp commander, ready to commit unimaginable atrocities for any reason or none. While the Communists avoided direct strikes against the West, the Jihadis yearn for such actions.
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Many such strikes (Fort Hood, Times Square, Boston, Tulsa) have occurred under the Obama dispensation. These will only increase to a point where they can no longer be swept under the rug by a corrupt government and complicit media.
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There are a billion-plus Muslims currently active. If 1% are convinced fanatic Jihadis, that translates into somehting in the range of ten to twelve million. Which means that we need to kill a large portion of that ten to twelve million. As William T. Sherman put it repeatedly during the Civil War, the Confederate war effort was dependent on 300,000 Southern aristocrats -- slaveholders with influence over poorer and less educated Southerners. Once those 300,000 were killed, the war would end. This Sherman and Grant set out to do.
It took Lincoln and his cabinet over three years to face this fact. This was impossible for Obama (and for that matter, Bush). In the ultra-civilized, not to say effete 21st century, this will not occur until the U.S. has suffered far greater injuries than it has. The left will play the terror conflict the same way they did the Cold War. Obama has set the pattern and they will follow it.
We have a people whose mental horizons are set by sports, entertainment trivia, and reality TV. People who want no more than to retreat to their mancaves, malls, and game consoles and not be bothered. They are easily played and manipulated by anybody who is willing to promise exactly that.
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Without will, strategy is pantomime.
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There is no one on the political horizon that can shape this vision. Fortunately, democracies have a tendency to produce such figures (Pericles, Churchill, Truman, Reagan). But only when the chips are down. They’ve scarcely even started falling yet.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/10/our_hundred_years_war.html

October 21, 2014
Our Hundred Years' War
By J.R. Dunn

Women On Men

For all those men who say, Why buy a cow when you can get the milk for free. Here's an update for you: Nowadays, 80% of women are against marriage, WHY? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage.

1. Men are like Laxatives. They irritate the crap out of you.
2 Men are like Bananas .. The older they get, the less firm they are.
3. Men are like Weather ... Nothing can be done to change them.
4. Men are like Blenders You need one, but you're not quite sure why.
5. Men are like Chocolate Bars ..... Sweet, smooth, & they usually head right for your hips.
6. Men are like Commercials ... You can't believe a word they say.
7. Men are like Department Stores ... Their clothes are always 1/2 off!
8. Men are like .... Government Bonds ...... They take soooooooo long to mature.
9. Men are like ..... Mascara ... They usually run at the first sign of emotion.
10. Men are like Popcorn ... They satisfy you, but only for a little while.
11. Men are like Snowstorms ... You never know when they're coming, how many inches you'll get or how long it will last.
12! .. Men are like Lava Lamps ... Fun to look at, but not very bright.
13. Men are like Parking Spots All the good ones are taken, the rest are handicapped.

Palin Has More Experience Than Obama

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101708.php3

Jewish World Review
Oct. 17, 2008 / 18 Tishrei 5769
Record versus rhetoric
By Thomas Sowell