I don’t see it that way either. Political discussion often entails sharp elbows, and in Trump, we have an unusually bad and divisive figure in politics. And pointing that out - even if it leaves his supporters butthurt - isn’t foul play.
It’s amazing and ironic - Trump supporters love the fact that Trump speaks in no-holds-barred, anti-PC tough talk, but when Trump critics show up and take on the candidate with the same ferocity and bluntness, suddenly they start crying foul (not saying @Mick28 is doing this, I am speaking generally). Wait - aren’t we supposed to be talking straight?
I’m anti-Trump, and always have been. He’s the worst and oddest candidate in modern history, and I have no desire to pull punches is saying so.
Here’s how I see Trump vs Johnson in their effectiveness
Gary Johnson is akin to a handicap holding down a medial job. Yes it’s commendable that a handicap person exceeded expectations by living a semi-independent life, but what he’s done is not all that impressive in the grand scheme of things.
Trump: A welterweight boxer entering UFC and knocking out the heavyweight champ. Not only did he knock out the heavyweight champ but he turned his face into an unrecognizable pulp with significantly less bulk (campaign money) than his opponents. This is impressive by any measure
Marijuana is classified as a schedule 1 drug, the same classification as LSD and with good reason. When marijuana is concentrated in a liquid form it has the capability to make you hallucinate,experience euphoria, have severe and terrifying thoughts and mild psychosis.
Yes supporting the Cheech & Chong candidate is nice to joke about, but in practise do you want to hand the nuclear codes to someone using nature’s LSD?
This is pitiful, and it’s going to haunt her. Despite her handlers’ best efforts, she will continue to emit these gaffes because she can’t escape the fact that she is the embodiment if the smug, coastal elitist that only pretends to give a damn about Everyone Else.
Heh. Setting aside the obvious poor taste of your analogy, that’s an amazingly ironic one, given that’s how we all feel about you and your presence in our country and here on PWI.
(What’s the old saying? You can put lipstick on a pig; but it’s still a pig? Or something like that…)
Clinton is a rich, smug, political animal (and don’t forget; a lawyer by training). I don’t think that she is comfortable being warm and “touchy-feely” like her husband. (No joke intended).
I also don’t think that she loves Politics (the good and the bad) like her husband does. I think Bill Clinton LOVES politics and everything about it. He certainly loved being President.
You get the feeling that she is saying “Why the hell am I doing all this”? and would be content to bypass all this campaigning stuff and get right to the Presidency.
Agreed. Hillary hates retail politics. In the most charitable light, what she likes is public policy, not politics, but what she likes most is power. And that is what her campaign - which never really ended in 2008 - is about.
Hillary isn’t motivated to do good by the people - if that were remotely true, the Clinton Foundation would donate far more than the scant percentages of its incredible largesse to help. Instead, it doles out a perfunctory amount so that they can say, hey, we do help people and not be lying, and the rest pays for five figure fashion for Hillary and comfortable lifestyles for Clinton cronies. It’s digusting.
Clinton will pay lip service to traditional, help-the-little-guy Democratic offerings, but like Trump, no one knows what actually wants to do with the Presidency.
And I think that’s because what she plans on doing is rewarding her cronies, like the boss of a mafia family that receives visitors paying tribute. She wants her ring to be kissed.
And she wants the Presidency as a revenge on her detractors over the years. She wants the validation that she won and they lost.
These aren’t reasons to hire someone for the Presidency.
You hit it out of the park with this assessment. Hillary Clinton wants power to be sure. But, she does not like the process that she has to go through to get it. On the other hand her husband actually enjoyed the process and certainly gives the impression that he loves people…he certainly loves interns. Sorry couldn’t resist.
This is something that the general public is not quite aware of yet. Mainly because most do not even know who Gary Johnson is. As the truth about him comes out he will not be a popular candidate. Even those who enjoy getting high do not necessarily want someone who also gets high to be the leader of the free world. I say this knowing he would draw more from the pants suit than Donald Trump.
And I will compare him to Trump in that regard. Donald Trump 70 years old and does not drink or smoke and never has.
By the way, if the pants suit doesn’t give up cigarettes soon she will be hacking her way back to her Chappaqua NY home, or wherever she wants to say she’s from.
It’s just a theory of mine, but I think she has allergies. I have allergies too. Pollen and cats mostly, but loratadine knocks the reaction right out. She seems allergic to normal people. Any time she gets around them she gets all kinds of symptoms, like when she was in Ohio last week and had that coughing fit.
The thing that seems to help her is posh surroundings and piles of cash. She always seems much less symptomatic at those 100K/plate fundraisers. Poor woman. That is one hell of an affliction.