THE UNHINGED PRESIDENT

Chris Wallace and Charles Krauthammer have joined George Will as my least favored media talking heads. There are several others—like Bernie Goldberg, often seen on Bill O’Reilly’s Factor show, that belong on a growing list of people who want us to believe they are SHOCKED! – SHOCKED! - at Trump’s post-election behavior. It’s as though they believed a magic switch would be thrown and Trump would begin behaving exactly as all politicians (particularly Presidents) have done for at least the past twenty-four years. More illustrative of the Potomac intelligentsia is their pronouncement of doom upon this administration because (Gasp!) they don’t follow the accepted protocol in their handling of ANYTHING. Obviously, Trump hasn’t a clue.

Does it take more than a little hubris to assume that a man who has amassed a multi-billion dollar fortune, has managed to establish and prove up many highly successful and lucrative businesses, and has also defeated the best and brightest presidential candidates that either party could array against him—this man is somehow so stupid that he doesn’t know how to deal with obstacles, many of them manufactured, that the secularists place in his path?

A Change.org petition being circulated by mental health professionals asserts President Trump is ‘unfit to serve’! 24,000 signatures have been garnered thus far.

To the mental health professionals and those of the enlightened media who have informed us President Trump is ‘unhinged’, is it fair to ask what evidence you would cite to illustrate your point? If it is his behaviors that you deem irrational, perhaps you could provide us with a definition of ‘rational’, and tell us whether that definition is applicable to all members of the human race? For instance, is it rational for a man in his late 50s or 60s to throw a chair across the floor of a crowded gymnasium? I cannot see Dean Smith, Roy Williams, or Bill Self doing anything so rash, but a highly successful college basketball coach named Bobby Knight did exactly that—and remained a winning coach for several years thereafter! Rational behavior? If that behavior accomplishes the goal that you are seeking, perhaps it is not so irrational for you. You would not expect a Caspar Milquetoast to smash a 250-pound hulking bully in the mouth with his fist; that would be the epitome of irrational behavior. But for Arnold Schwarzenegger to take such action might be a more sensible, even ‘rational’ response to provocation.

I don’t like Donald Trump; haven’t liked him since he first announced his candidacy. He is crude, rude, and perfectly willing to destroy the reputation and career of an opponent to obtain his ends. I truly believe that Dale Carnegie, author of the book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, might well have wanted to punch him in the nose.

Anyone who expected Donald Trump to behave exactly as each—indeed, ANY—of the past Presidents has to be smoking some of that funny tobacco. Donald Trump is not George Bush. There are even fewer similarities between Trump and Barack Obama. Trump is Trump. For good or ill, he is going to do things in the ways that have proved, I think you would agree, fairly successful for him in the past. To do otherwise would be foolish, don’t you think? Why exchange the thoroughbred you have ridden to stunning victories, for the old grey mare proven time and again to be slow afoot, often finishing last?

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
--Henry David Thoreau: Walden

 Some of the actions he will take during his presidency are going to be applauded by many who are looking for change in America. Some of the things he does will cause many to wince in fear and disgust. But if you are surprised that he is who he is, then you have definitely not been paying attention.

Trump was not elected to win the approval of the media and politicians. He was chosen because he promised to bring a little sanity back to politics; to do things that are in the best interests of America, for a change; to repeal and replace Obamacare, to restore some American pride, to rebuild our faltering military, to solve the immigration problems, to cut taxes and to restore jobs. Everything the immediate past president did accomplished the exact opposite of those ends. America wanted a change. It is as simple as that. Perhaps the media and politicians of both parties will be the last to comprehend that message.

Criticize him if you must. He is NEVER going to be the kinder, gentler president you want him to be. He is always going to be egocentric, thin-skinned, and tone deaf. Maddeningly so, perhaps. But as long as he is making a bonafide effort to restore American leadership, pride and a sense of moral responsibility, anyone who is a genuine conservative should stop and think before giving the secularists too much assistance in trying to destroy our President.

By the way, where are the Democrat opposite numbers of John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Marco Rubio, and Susan Collins? The only Democrat Senator to EVER oppose Obama in any way was Joe Manchin of West Virginia—and that was muted opposition to Obama’s stance on coal. Are the secularists convictions more strongly held than those of conservatives? Interesting . . . 

This Question Must Be Asked

This Question Must Be Asked

This question must be asked, although it is entirely rhetorical: Is there an adult in this Obama Administration?  Has Obama selected anyone to work for him who is capable of accurately assessing a situation—ANY situation—and making a mature, reasoned decision?  You know the answer to that question.  When the person at the top of the administrative chain sees no urgency when the world is falling apart all around us, why should any of his underlings perceive anything differently?

It is said that Nero fiddled while watching Rome, the eternal city at the center of Roman grandeur, consumed by fire.  Obama plays golf and delivers speeches at fund-raisers all over the United States while the country he was elected to lead declines in all important measures of greatness.  Those of you who have been on my e-mail list will likely have forgotten an item I wrote more than five years ago in which I apologized to Obama for having the onerous task of presiding over a country of which he was ashamed.  You will recall, though, that he apologized to various and sundry nations all over the world for America’s perceived wickedness—his own perception, not theirs.  I suggested America should be generous enough to offer Mr. Obama the presidency of a nation in which he could take pride—like Chad, or Belgium, or Kenya.  In an effort to assuage his guilt and shame for America, we could have even offered boot to any country willing to take him as leader and send us theirs.

I suggested strongly then and now reassert that idea that Barack Obama does not like America.  He sought its presidency for the express purpose of making America pay for what he deemed its arrogance, for the accrual of wealth he believed they stole from other nations around the world and from their own poor and black citizens.  The truth is, not only Obama but perhaps a majority of the leadership of the Democrat (Progressive) Party despises America and desires that we should divest ourselves of all the trappings of wealth and power to become another impotent, unimportant 4^th –world nation; on a par with Liberia, Guatemala, Chad; to join the One-World Nation, as the Clintons once called it.

There is ample evidence to support that charge.  Space will not permit listing them, but we can approach the matter from the opposite end—can you name a single program that Obama and his Progressive cohorts have instituted that has benefited this country?

I greatly fear that too many Americans have no stake in the welfare of our nation.  More than fifty percent pay no income taxes, and a large percentage of those non-payers receive what is euphemistically called income tax credits—a method whereby the government returns money to those who have paid no taxes; an oxymoron if I ever heard one.  How can you return to someone something they have never had? No matter.  I still credit Alexander Hamilton with the saying, “Once the citizenry finds that they can vote themselves largesse from the national treasury, the Democratic Republic is finished.”

In the Roman Empire, the Caesar would provide games and entertainment in the coliseum.  Wagons loaded with bread would be drawn into the arena, and loaves of bread were thrown to the people up in the stands before the gladiators entered and began trying to kill each other.  Thus they were both entertained and fed. Under Obama’s administration it is much easier. We pay people to stay home and not work.  We pay for their education (such as it is), their housing, their medical expenses, etc..  We give them free cell phones. All we ask of them is that they vote Democrat in any and all elections.  You don’t even have to go to the coliseum or sports arena to collect these items—we’ll delver them to your front door.

The Republican leadership is awful.  Weak, impotent; much too concerned with their own next election and uncaring as to what the average American experiences.  But at least no Republican that I am aware of is actively seeking the demise of “America as we know it”.  Even should no Republican leader emerge who is capable of uniting conservatives, we must unite ourselves.  The only choice is to allow America to quickly devolve into a nation where you—I—do not want to live.