John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Poignant and sad words from Charles Pierce in Esquire:

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba.

I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome."

I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over.

I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill.

I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City.

I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing "Amazing Grace" in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.

And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators.

Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.

The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.

Watch him make fun of the woman again. Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut the fuck up even when it is in his best interest to do so.

Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him again, behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."

EyeSawYou

Lol bunch of tripe, You sure are going to h**e it when Trump wins another four years in office.

pendennis

JFK, LBJ, RMN, GRF, JEC, GHWB, WJC, GWB, BHO were all statists, and p***ed themselves with "exporting democracy". JFK, LBJ, and RMN kept us in the quaqmire of Viet Nam to the tune of almost 58K Americans dying. JEC cowered in the White House wearing a cardigan sweater, while our embassy in Tehran was overrun and people take hostage.GHWB and GWB managed to get us nearly hopelessly entangled in the Middle East. WJC managed to get us entangled in Eastern Europe, where we had absolutely no national interests. BHO was a tool of the Russians, and gave a terrorist country billions of dollars on an airport tarmac.

And it doesn't just start with JFK. FDR and HST managed to get millions of Americans k**led in WWII, a war in which we didn't need to fight. HST got us into an unconstitutional war in Korea which cost the lives of almost 40K Americans.

Oh, and DDE was no saint. He allowed also meddled in the Middle East, South and Central America, and started the ball rolling in Viet Nam.

President Trump is the first President in over 80 years, to question the status quo on adventurism.

Go read a book.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

Trump has no integrity, no humility, no empathy.
So many don’t realize the need for those qualities in a leader.
The country has been irreparably harmed as a result.

Angmo

At least it’s worked on evil Leftie Dems...

EyeSawYou

Lol you are unhinged, please seek help.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

You believe what Casey said was a good thing?

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

What a crock of crap.

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

Then simply don't v**e for him. It isn't necessary or required that you post your hatred every single day. What kind of guy feels the need to post hatred about Trump every single day?

You are always running your mouth like you have some sort of inside knowledge on Trump and the qualities he possesses and we all know that is crap. Just don't v**e for him and give it a freaking rest.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

If we hadn’t joined WWII we might all be speaking German today.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

It’s not as though Trump has no past. Read up on him. Educate yourself.

Angmo

If evil leftie dems had won the civil war, we’d still have s***ery.

Evil lefties lost WWII too.

Elaine2025 Loc: Seattle, Wa

Waffle house tommie, go get your stuffed slug and take a nap. Your ignorance is showing. You don't like Trump, act like a big boy and tell your mama not to v**e for him.

pendennis

Not likely.

We only declared war on Germany because they were bound by the Tripartite Pact; after we declared war on Japan, Germany was bound to declare war on the U.S. Hitler really didn't want to attack England, but was bound by treaty when England and France declared war on Germany to protect Poland. Just how the English and French were going to do that remains a mystery.

The N**is had no way to conduct a T***satlantic war with the U.S. Their Navy couldn't even operate outside the eastern sea front of the Atlantic. They had no aircraft carriers, no t***soceanic t***sports, nor enough destroyers and support vessels to conduct any type of "invasion". Their best battleships were sunk by air; the most famous, Bismarck, was crippled by obsolete biplanes using torpedoes; Tirpitz sunk in a Fjord.

Hitler, despite his grandiose plans, was myopic in his outlook. He had never traveled outside Europe, and had no real concept of the vastness of the world. His focus was on spreading N**ism in Europe, with eyes on Eastern Europe. The best western strategy would have been for the Allies to sit by, and watch both Germany and USSR beat each other to death.

Angmo

Yep. But hitler, c****e, n**i, socialist, f*****t leftie influences are intermixed with our own evil leftie Dems. They are pushing hard for this evil again.

Lefties are evil. Evil leftie Dems are the threat to our liberty and freedom these days. A clear and present danger.