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Author: Raine    Date: 05/16/2016 13:21:53

Remember back in 2008, when a young, energized senator from Illinois was running for the Office of the President of the United States?

Remember they called him too inexperienced and naive? Then they called him arrogant and uppity? From 2007:
Now that it’s obvious Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate for president, GOP nominee apparent John McCain and the Republican attack machine predictably have started in on the Illinois senator as a callow youth with scant foreign policy experience and a resultant naive view of the world.

Hell, they are still saying those things about President Obama.
"This is the weakness of the Obama years," Krauthammer said. "He came in as...inexperienced, but arrogant. That's the combination that I think did such damage."
Fast forward to yesterday.
RADDATZ: Is there anything you would like Donald Trump do differently?

SESSIONS: Well, I think he’s going to need to learn. He’s going to need to understand really completely — as you know, Martha, how complex this world is, even within Baghdad and the region around Baghdad — Kurds, al Anbar, Sunni, Shia, Iranians, so forth. It’s just a very, very complex world and you have to be careful when you commit a military force.

It is almost like Republicans are trying to make Hillary Clinton’s argument for her. The last thing that the chairman of Trump’s own foreign policy committee should ever say during an interview is that the Republican nominee needs to learn.

Hillary Clinton argument for her candidacy is that she won’t need on the job training. Clinton is experienced, and she will be ready to hit the ground running on her first day in office. Republicans, like Sen. Sessions, spent years criticizing President Obama as inexperienced, but they are supporting a candidate who by their own admission needs to learn.

I'm just gonna let them take a listen to our current President...



and

Raine
 

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Comment by Raine on 05/16/2016 13:41:12
good morning!

and from our right leaning friends, I ask, you are just learning this now?

It has been suggested that Donald Trump’s electoral success is a sign America is just a few years behind Europe (with Trump being akin to La Pen). If that’s the case, then the rise of anti-Semitism might also make sense. After all, in an era where the Right is increasingly reverting to its Paleoconservative tradition on a wide range of issues like isolationism and protectionism, isn’t there a danger of other strains creeping back in?

Along those lines, you’ve probably seen the Breitbart headline that some are calling anti-Semitic:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CijVAUrU4AAv26w.jpg


Comment by Mondobubba on 05/16/2016 13:58:13
Quote by Raine:
good morning!

and from our right leaning friends, I ask, you are just learning this now?

It has been suggested that Donald Trump’s electoral success is a sign America is just a few years behind Europe (with Trump being akin to La Pen). If that’s the case, then the rise of anti-Semitism might also make sense. After all, in an era where the Right is increasingly reverting to its Paleoconservative tradition on a wide range of issues like isolationism and protectionism, isn’t there a danger of other strains creeping back in?

Along those lines, you’ve probably seen the Breitbart headline that some are calling anti-Semitic:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CijVAUrU4AAv26w.jpg





Comment by Mondobubba on 05/16/2016 13:58:47
Mondo, no brain today. Mondo want brain gooder.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 05/16/2016 14:01:32
Good morning, bloggers!!!

Any Republican who dared call President Obama naive and inexperienced is standing in quicksand when it comes to Donald Trump.

In some good news, I have an interview with a local school tomorrow. However, I am concerned about its poor state test scores and will ask about that.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 05/16/2016 14:07:21
Quote by Mondobubba:
Quote by Raine:
good morning!

and from our right leaning friends, I ask, you are just learning this now?

It has been suggested that Donald Trump’s electoral success is a sign America is just a few years behind Europe (with Trump being akin to La Pen). If that’s the case, then the rise of anti-Semitism might also make sense. After all, in an era where the Right is increasingly reverting to its Paleoconservative tradition on a wide range of issues like isolationism and protectionism, isn’t there a danger of other strains creeping back in?

Along those lines, you’ve probably seen the Breitbart headline that some are calling anti-Semitic:


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CijVAUrU4AAv26w.jpg





No surprise here. I have seen an increase in anti-Semitism on the right and some segments of the Left. (I can and do criticize Bibi Netanyahu's policies, but I don't suggest uprooting an entire country, questioning its legitimacy. If we must, we can start with the nations of the New World, none of whom are controlled by the indigenous inhabitants. There also were a few problems in the British Labour party.)

Let's say that Donald Trump's supporters are perhaps more frightening than he is. His movement reminds me of the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats, particularly the last stanza.



THE SECOND COMING

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?



Comment by wickedpam on 05/16/2016 14:22:10
Morning

Comment by BobR on 05/16/2016 14:44:38
The level of insanity in this year's election season is probably as intense as I've ever seen it. I know 2008 had the racial aspect and Sarah Palin, but holy cow. There are hardliners on both sides of the aisle talking 3rd party/write-in.

This is what happens when Republicans neuter government via inaction and obstruction, and then claim "both sides do it".

Comment by trojanrabbit on 05/16/2016 14:56:03
morning

WTF happened to spring?

Comment by BobR on 05/16/2016 15:01:25
Quote by trojanrabbit:
morning

WTF happened to spring?

Dunno - did the woodchuck see its shadow a 2nd time?

Comment by Scoopster on 05/16/2016 16:00:58
Mornin' all!

Comment by Raine on 05/16/2016 20:11:31
Can I get a little help with this tweet?




Comment by Raine on 05/16/2016 20:21:08
Quote by Raine:
Can I get a little help with this tweet?



Did he mean the toll it takes to fight for survival?

I am going to go with that and go with the idea that this was a bad communication.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 05/16/2016 21:50:25
I am hoping for a few interviews. TriSec, I got an e-mail that Waltham opened up my application for a middle school position.

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