![]() ![]() Capitol by a newly elected president on a cold, clear January morning in 1981. How could the country have come to such a sorry pass? Perhaps a clue can be found in a speech given from the U.S. We didn't create our own private space exploration. We didn't ourselves build the Hoover Dam. Our government did, with railroads and homesteading and the U.S. We, as individuals, didn't tame the West. Our government did, after it stole the land from Colombia. How did we abandon our dreams of greatness that we demanded of our self-governing Republic. I wonder how that possibly could have happened in this country. We lost our sense of purpose, and daring. We stopped believing in what America could do, and became reliant on other countries, other people, and other institutions. Again, this is a canard that Trump has been peddling for almost six months, and it's no truer now than it was the first time he said it.īut, I was struck most heavily by the end of the speech, when He, Trump began to pine for the lost glory that once was America.Īmericans are the people that tamed the West, that dug out the Panama Canal, that sent satellites across the solar system, that built the great dams, and so much more. Washington time, and she went right to work. HRC was not sleeping when the phone call came in regarding the attack on the embassy in Benghazi. The United States is not the "highest taxed nation in the world." This is something that has been fact-checked on him somewhere between three and 18 gazillion times. If you can't vet some poor sod with everything he owns in a backpack within two years, you should find other work immediately. The vetting process generally takes two years. Under her plan, we would admit hundreds of thousands of refugees from the most dangerous countries on Earth–with no way to screen who they are or what they believe. In fact, Hillary Clinton supports a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian refugees coming into the United States, and that's an increase over President Obama's already very high number. Gary Aldrich must be off somewhere weeping because he was born too soon. He grabbed onto two extended exercises in ratfcking–Peter Schweitzer's Clinton Cash and Gary Byrne's Crisis In Character–and held them close to his heart. ![]() HRC did not "singlehandedly destabilize the entire Middle East." She had a lot of help in the years between 20, when somebody nobody mentions anymore was running things. There is no record of his opposing the Iraq War, "Yes, even before the war ever started." And it was a fairly well-crafted address, even though, every time he delivers a scripted speech or reads from a TelePrompter, he appears very surprised by what's written down for him. ![]() That's nonsense, too, but it's nonsense within some sort of logical bounds. Instead of accusing HRC of wanting to abolish the Second Amendment, he charged that she would appoint justices who would "virtually abolish" it. There was some evidence of softening to his positions. Some speechwriter will get there for him sooner or later, I'm sure. Like most politicians of the past 30 years, and like most people operating within the current financial elite, HRC really has been cozy with some unsavory people and regimes around the world. There were some lines of attack that, were they not being delivered by a self-evident public charlatan, might have proven effective. There were many interesting things about the speech. But we paddle on, up against the implacable current of Mucus River, and we judge the speech as you judge the speeches of the presumptive presidential candidate of one of the two major political parties that we, as a people, have allowed ourselves. If, as I did, you listened to his thwacking–and largely unencumbered by truth–attack on Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday morning, it was hard to track the lies through the monumental sniffling that made it sound like He, Trump was campaigning as Darth Vader cosplay. Why do I suspect that Trump Decongestants will be on the market any day now? ![]()
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