Aliceinbubbleland said:Redbrickbear said:Mitch Blood Green said:Redbrickbear said:Sam Lowry said:Redbrickbear said:midgett said:
What a tremendous opportunity Trump had to take the high road leaving liberals speechless. Instead he takes the lowest road possible.
Yea, I defend him 99% of the time for his tweets and takes…
But this was bad by Trump
Stupid thing to say and exactly what we have criticized the Left for doing for decades (being ghouls when political opponents die)
It isn't stupid. Like most of what Trump says, it's calculated to disgust and enrage people, make them less tolerant, and turn more Americans against each other.
You are over thinking it
He says what he thinks…sometimes it's pure truth that lots of people want to hear from an elected leader.
And some times it's down right meanness and hateful about a political enemy.
But it's not a grand conspiracy
Saying what he thinks is for you and me. He's president, the job requires decorum. He has a responsibility to be better.
You want the job to have decorum....that is not actually a requirement of the job.
The only requirements set out by the Constitution are in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5:
"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."
And lets not forget with have had several not very couth Presidents before.
LBJ gave interviews to reports while he was taking a dump....he freely used the N-word
[Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) was notorious for using extensive profanity and vulgar language, often described as "swearing like a sailor". He was known for his crude and boorish behavior, using coarse language in both private conversations and public settingsPlus we can't forget that right or wrong...decorum or not...Trump go elected being who he is....with all the negatives and positives that comes with.
- According to biographers, on one occasion when reporters pressed him about the Vietnam War, Johnson unzipped his fly and exposed himself, declaring, "This is why!".
- General Vulgarity: Staffers and colleagues often noted his obsession with toilet humor and general emotional abuse of those around him, making his use of vulgar language a key part of his public and private persona.]
In this case its enough to say Trump was wrong....very wrong
The worst thing about LBJ was stealing an election.
And almost certainly JFK stole the election from Nixon…or at least the Democratic Party machine in Chicago did for him
[The 1960 presidential election was the closest of the twentieth century when measured by the popular vote. John F Kennedy managed narrow margins in a number of critical states to carry him to victory over Richard M. Nixon. Because of the close call in Illinois (Kennedy won by an official count of 8,858 votes), the unsavory reputation of the Chicago Democratic organization, and certain newspaper reports, Republicans became convinced that they had been cheated out of enough votes to have swung the state into the Republican column.]
[Historian Irwin F. Gellman argues in his book Campaign of the Century that the 8,858-vote margin by which John F. Kennedy won Illinois in the 1960 presidential election was the product of fraud.]
["The GOP's failure to prove fraud doesn't mean, of course, that the election was clean. That question remains unsolved and unsolvable," Greenberg said.]
