I do my own thinking.

When Will began to write his column he had interesting things to say. Since the beginning of the Clinton administration he has devolved into a grouchy, grumpy advocate of whatever increases the wealth and power of the rich. Unlike Rush Limbaugh he realizes that President Trump's mental deficiencies endanger everyone, including the rich.

 

Yes he's a grumpy worthless curmudgeon
Until he agrees with you .

And you are a Democrat forgetting that virtually every black American is also a Democrat and you view them as being racially inferior so that's confusing .

 

And George will was also a relentless critic of George Herbert Walker Bush and calling him a lapdog among his nicer criticisms .

Being staunchly anti-Republican I thought you might've mentioned this you know with you being the master of facts and all .

I'm pretty sure the George Herbert Walker Bush preceded Clinton. But I'm not as smart as you are but that's probably because I might be part black and God knows that has corrupted my gene pool At least by your fancy cipherin'.

Best I be returnin To my knee slappin and spoon playin' and where is my banjo and jug .

I guess that we are all supposed to support whatever group one self defines themselves as.

I am president of the solar system by the way and I demand all of that respect associated with my station

 

Will's criticism of George the Greater always struck me as mean spirited and petty. I did not see any substance in it.

In the 1988 primary I voted for Michael Dukakis. By the general election Lee Atwater's Willy Horten ads had convinced me not to vote for Dukakis. I did not vote for a president that year.

I have always liked George the Greater. During the 1980 primary he correctly named Reagan's supply side economic scam as "Voodoo Economics." Unfortunately, when Reagan offered him a position as his vice president he did not have the integrity to turn him down.

I do think George the Greater handled the Gulf War better than anyone else who might have been president then.

George the Greater's "no new taxes" pledge was foolish. Fortunately he had the sense to break that promise.

 

My view of blacks is only confusing to those who are unable to comprehend the nuances of my thinking. There can be no question that blacks tend to have less intelligence than whites, Orientals, and even Hispanics. In the United States they have higher crime rates than each of these groups. Internationally blacks also tend to be less intelligent than whites, Orientals, and Hispanics. Internationally they have higher crime rates than whites and Orientals.

What I mean by intelligence is the ability to perform well on mental aptitude tests and on tests of general knowledge.

During the first century AD there were two black urban civilizations: Nubia and Ethiopia. Neither of these produced the achievements of Caucasian, Oriental, or even American Indian civilizations.

The facts I have listed are not in dispute. I believe that they provide impressive evidence that blacks on the average are less intelligent than Caucasians and Mongoloids, and more prone to engage in criminal behavior.

Nevertheless, non cosmetic racial differences overlap between the races. This is why I am opposed to color lines and racial discrimination. I will say, however, that after supporting the civil rights movement as a child and teenager I have become disappointed with the results. I do not believe that those disappointing results are the fault of whites. I think they substantiate what I have just written.

I hope I have cleared up any confusion you may have had about my ambivalent appraisal of the Negro race.

 

And once again the super troll/sock proves that far from ignoring me he/she/it remains obsessed with me.

 

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We are in agreement about George Herbert Walker Bush . I think that he was quite accomplished and well-suited to be president . And like you I agree that George wills relentless attacks against him were rather befuddling and seemed to be personal and I can't imagine what that personal issue was.

If one listens to the issues at the time surrounding the first gulf war it was a very complicated decision. Extremely well reasoned arguments were made from both sides.

Sadly our ambassador to Iraq gave Saddam Hussein reason to believe that the US would do nothing if Iraq invaded Kuwait .

Ultimately the president had to make the final decision and I think George Herbert Walker Bush did what he had to do . He freed Kuwait and essentially humiliated Saddam Hussein . One needs to keep in mind that Saddam Hussein sat as the commander-in-chief of the fifth largest army in the world at the time

The terms of surrender effectively completed all American interests. No more Iraqi troops in Kuwait and an inspection system that I believe proved to be successful in effectively ridding Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction.

And in fairness to Bill Clinton I don't recall him ever second-guessing that war. In fact I view Bill Clinton as being a quite good president. He sat over the longest Peace time expansion of the US economy in US history. I'm not entirely certain that he can be given complete credit for that but that's another issue . I have taken some issue with how he involved himself in the Serbian war. But that was another complicated decision .

I think that the impeachment of Bill Clinton was the most shameful thing that the Republican House did but I will give great credit to the Republican Senate who took the articles of impeachment and said very early on that this matter should not have even been brought to us.

I completely opposed the second gulf war as an unnecessary distraction from our real enemy at the time which was Al Qaeda . I think that George W. Bush allowed Al Qaeda to regroup for more than two years .

I think that George W. Bush when faced with The overwhelming evidence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction became extremely defensive and said it does not matter when that was the entire justification for the war. I thought it was childish and when he told our enemies come on bring it on he put American soldiers lives more at risk then they needed to be and apparently even Laura Bush took him to task for this .

There is reason to believe from George Herbert Walker Bush s memoirs and other sources that even George Herbert Walker Bush had issues with his sons conduct in the war and the choices that he made in his cabinet and the extraordinary power that he gave them . George W. Bush apparently responded to one of them by having a temper tantrum and hanging up on his father . and that too was quite childish. I was also disapproved with his bail outs and his too big to fail philosophy.

I think that Al Gore would've been a better president and I didn't even vote when John Kerry ran against him. Because I have no idea to this day what John Kerry stood for

In spite of my overall respect for Bill Clinton I have enormous issues with Hillary Clinton however because I think that she could never have risen above being an attorney in the rose law firm were it not for riding on her husband's coattails .

Even when given the busy work task of crafting some kind of policy on healthcare she worked in secret and justified it by saying that she couldn't deal with the distractions of being public and this is always been her MO and even a number of her supporters have made special note of this. I think that she's prickly and works out of a spirit of something approaching paranoia when she talks about vast right wing conspiracies when what she is really talking about is politics as usual which is naturally nasty .if you look at her behavior during the congressional Libya investigation she screams What does it matter now ? She and Obama came up with some bullshit story about the embassy being attacked because of an offensive video for example . I think that she cannot take responsibility for herself .
I think that a Hillary Clinton presidency would be effectively a rehash of the Richard Nixon presidency with her own secret government just as he had

This is already getting way too long so I'm not gonna get into Obama because I think my posts have made it very clear what I think about him . The only thing that I think that I have not said is that my biggest problem with him was Obama care because suddenly he was attempting to regulate non activity. And in this common law country precedent is given way too much power.

I was in Los Angeles when Donald Trump was elected and watched as demonstrators closed down a major freeway . I viewed this as being simply petulant .

Demonstrating and chanting he's not my president is worse than childish but I come from a world that says if you don't like the man you need to at least respect the office .

Donald Trump is the president of the United States and to say that he is not my president is in my opinion magical thinking.

As I have said he may prove to be a horrible president but it's way too early to scratching out his epitaph on his tombstone .

OK I have largely dispataged both liberals and conservatives in this one very long post.

The bottom line is that I think that Bush one and Clinton were probably the best combination of presidentsin my lifetime . And it's no surprise that they are very good friends .

 

Ummmm. I don't think that nuanced is quite the correct word but I'll deal with that another time because my last post was so long

 

First of all, your response was better than I am used to on XNXX.

I anticipated the insults I usually receive from XNXX posters on the right and the left.

Those insults mean: I can't answer your argument; I am angry at you for posting it.

Second, I agree with you criticism of the demonstrators that closed down a major freeway. That kind of behavior by anti war activists during the War in Vietnam angered the voters into voting for hawks who prolonged the War.

My sympathies are with the Occupy Movement, rather than the Tea Party. Nevertheless, I have read that after a Tea Party demonstration in an area the area is neater and cleaner than it had been before the demonstration. I have also read that after an Occupy Movement demonstration in an area the area is a mess.

Left wing activists under the age of 30 frequently behave in ways that are politically dysfunctional. This includes efforts to prevent speeches from speakers they disagree with and Black Lives Matter demonstrations which frequently devolve into riots.

The legitimate function of political dissent is not to express anger; it is to persuade. You do not persuade people by angering them.

 

DL I hope that I have demonstrated that I can be as critical of Republican administrations as I am of Democratic administrations. And overtime I'm sure I will be critical of Trump as well.
It's just too early for me to do that yet and I am somewhat excited that he is a Washington outsider because I think that Washington is completely corrupt . Maybe it will be worse under him I just don't know yet

 

I'm really trying to be evenhanded and I'm not happy that I have allowed myself to let this become personal.

I'm really trying very very hard to be evenhanded .

I've already received a lot of flak from conservatives who are upset that I was critical of George W. Bush's policies .

And I already have the criticism from people from the left so I'm sort of in the wilderness but I have to use my best judgment when I see the mistakes of both parties and I feel like I need to find the mistakes so that they are not repeated.

Obviously I feel like my opinions are correct based on all the data that I have consumed but of course no one can be objective completely about this but I have come as close as I think I can

 

The problem with standing in the middle of the road is that you get run over from both directions.

 

Bullshit.

And double bullshit.

 

The corruption in Washington is due to the power of money. That power became much greater with the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 558 U.S. 310 Supreme Court Decision of 2010.

As long as there are few constraints on campaign financing, and as long as elected officials can get vast sums, like Hillary did, giving speeches to groups with lots of money, that corruption will remain.

Both parties are responsible for this. I consider the GOP to be more responsible. The Citizens United decision was a terrible step backward. It was made by a Republican Supreme Court.

 

Yeah traffic is definitely a problem when you're standing on the median .

What worries me is that we have become so polarized that there are people who think that Obama was wrong about every single thing and other is the believe George W. Bush was wrong about every single thing .

I can point obviously the things that both dead extremely wrong .

The ancient Greeks believed in what they call the golden mean and fought extremes and I think that was a much healthier view

 

Yes but I would take the problem even further back to the Supreme Court decision that gave corporations the rights of individuals

I'm too tired to look it up right now but I think it was in the late 19th century . I don't know but I'm sure it was a Republican Supreme Court .

I would like elections to be done the way they are done in England which is a very short election cycle that is publicly financed . At least that's the way it used to be done

I am aware that it's a parliamentary system and it's different than ours but I would still like to see it.

I'm not holding my breath .

Our election cycles are effectively about two years long in the campaigning and we don't seem to be producing very good candidates after all that effort .

 

Those who wrote the United States Constitution modeled it after the British government at the time. The President was designed as a temporary monarch. The Senate was designed as a temporary House of Lords. The House of Representatives was modeled after the Parliament.

However, the American and the British government systems have evolved in different directions. In Great Britain the Monarch and the House of Lords have lost effective power, and serve purely ceremonial functions. Power has gone to the Parliament.

I would like for the United States to adopt a new constitution with a new government that would once again be modeled after the British system, only the British system as it exists today.

However, as long as the U.S. electorate is as polarized as it is I think it would be unwise to call a Second Constitutional Convention. That should wait until there is a broad consensus on what the U.S. government should be like, and what direction the United States should be moving in.

Because the American consensus is moving to the left, I expect that consensus to exist in a generation or so. Of course, if the Trump is the disaster I think it may be, the consensus may develop much sooner.

 

I kind of prefer a parliamentary system as well but it is so far removed from what we have presently I don't see that happening anytime soon and I think the second constitutional convention is a nonstarter .

As Far is polarization goes yes . People are either Democrats who believe that the Democrats have done nothing wrong and the Republicans have done nothing right and vice versa . I can see great mistakes made by both sides and that has made me kind of a pariah from the point of view of both parties .

It's insane and it's kind of like branding like with Adidas or Nike .

I have voted for both parties and I have voted libertarian because I will not commit myself to any party because that does that suit my interests and only encourages their bad behavior

 

Once again Trump proves he is delusional and totally detached from reality.

Trump accuses the DNC of working with the Russians during campaign in bizarre early morning tweet

And his delusions are probably only get worse and more pronounced now that reality is coming to bear and Sally Yates is getting ready to testify tomorrow.

 

Trump’s Comey threat creates ‘widespread concern’ among GOP leadership about his ‘frame of mind’: report