Back in the day we loved many of our presidents and were measured in our response to their misdeeds.
We loved JFK and wept when we heard that he was dead. Many of us knew that he was seeing a lot of women and started an affair with a teenage summer intern, and we forgave him.
When Nixon became President, we decided that we didn't like him and wanted him out, and wished him the worst. When many of us heard about Watergate, we were hoping (many of us on the Left don't pray) that he would leave office and fortunately for us he did.
Many loved Reagan. He was a charismatic, optimistic leader who led us out of a severe fiscal problems of mortgage rates at 16%, high unemployment and he got our American hostages released by Iran. But he made the rich richer by dramatically lowering their tax rate. He was a conservative, but many of us still appreciated him.
We liked Bill Clinton who was charming and bright. When we heard that he had had a 12 year long extramarital affair with a Little Rock celebrity, Gennifer Flowers, he and Hillary denied it but he had to finally acknowledge that it was true after tapes of them were revealed. We forgave him - good old boys will be boys. The same happened when accused of the sexual assault in Little Rock of Paula Jones. The Clintons denied the accusations, blaming the right for it. He later confessed to it and paid Paula $850,000. Then he was said to have had sex in the Oval Office with a 22 years old intern. He denied it while Hillary called her a bimbo not to be believed. He lied about it, but confessed that it was true when the intern produced a stained blue dress that had his DNA. But we still like him, but not so much his wife who the vast majority believe is dishonest. She went on to say in 2016 "When a woman says she was raped, believe her." But she hadn't.
Many of Americans generally liked George II, even though his administration was a disaster. He cut taxes for the rich causing a budget deficit leading to huge job losses and did not respond to warnings about an imminent terrorist attack on us with airplanes before 9/11. But he was gracious when visiting the site of the crash that killed almost 3,000 people. He got us into a pointless war in Iraq costing trillions of our taxes dollars. Iraq is still in chaos and ISIS was born in the midst of the disorder. The invasion gave birth to the "Arab Spring" with people from other Middle East countries seeing one dictator brought down thinking they can topple theirs and they did, sending their countries into turmoil. In Syria, a few hundred thousand Syrians protested the government and insisted that Assad step down. The resistance has been fighting for seven years. Their cities have been bombed and destroyed and more than 500,000 Syrians have lost their lives while even more lost their homes and were forced to flee and Assad is still in power. We didn't hate George II, we blamed his advisors, especially the evil Cheney and his team. By the time he left office, the economy was in shambles, businesses were going bankrupt, and people were losing their homes because of the rising unemployment. We still think that he was a nice, just a little over his head.
We elected Barack Obama who we liked. We still do. He saved the auto industry and the economy. He ensured that we got all the money that we gave to banks and businesses in the weak economy, plus interest. He reduced our troops in Afghanistan fighting another pointless war. He did the same in Iraq. He had great ideas like raising the minimum wage and making community college free. This is a much better idea than Bernie's free four year college tuition for everyone.
We forgive him for fanning the flames of racial conflict. He supported Black Lives Matter, which many believe is a a racist and anti police group that was started under the mistaken impression that a young 6'5" recent high school football player was unarmed and had his hands up when shot by a police officer. That turned out to be untrue.
We believed when he said that diversity made this country great. . Mr. Obama was a globalist with the ultimate goal of ending nations and having one great global economy.
While we forgive him his errors, we don't forgive his first Secretary of State. She further damaged our relationship with Russia and was a cheerleader for Muslims who wanted to overthrow their government. While we helped kill the leader of Libya, we helped the nation become disorganized and deadly. She ignored pleas for more security at our embassy in Bengazi and then lied about the death of four, including the Ambassador, saying it was a spontaneous attack that could not have been anticipated.
We now have our 45th President. We realized immediately that we didn't like him. He was insulting, rude, and a narcissist who doesn't always get his facts straight or find less provocative ways of expressing himself. He wanted to build a wall and promised that Mexico will pay for it. He said that some illegals are murderers, rapists, drug smugglers and criminals of a different stripe. We didn't like that. He could have said we want to stop illegal immigration by building a wall. He could have cited the billions we spend each year on illegal immigration and didn't mention that those who work illegally are taking jobs away from some Americans of African or Latin American heritage, who need the jobs most.
We ignore many of his accomplishments because we don't like him and want him to fail even if it hurts the country. He has appointed an excellent Supreme Court justice, simplified the tax code eliminating most itemized deductions, lowered tax brackets and increased the standard deduction. It will save most of us hundreds or thousands each year. He lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% stimulating hiring and expansion while bringing businesses back to America or getting them to stay here.
He did not micro manage the military in its decisions in Iraq and Afghanistan and in our fight against ISIS. He passed a budget that both parties approved of. When he threatened North Korea, we thought him mad. While previous presidents complained about Korea, they never did enough to stop the North from making missiles and nuclear war heads. Trump got all nations to stop doing business with the country and promised to annihilate the country if a missile lands on American soil. North Korea capitulated and signed an agreement with Trump to denuclearize. Many of us hope that Trump does not get the Nobel Peace Prize for that.
When he threatened tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada, the EU and especially China, we were worried. They are now willing to change their unfair trade practices and our steel and aluminum businesses are now flourishing. His predecessors complained about unfair trade policies but they did nothing about it.
He withdrew from the Iran agreement since they are still making missiles and enriching uranium. They were given $100 billion in the agreement which gave them money to fight in Yemen, Syria and Iraq.
He reduced the contribution we make to NATO and the U.N. We were paying 25% of these budgets to protect Europe or to vote on biased and/or meaningless gestures in the U.N. Their votes on Israel, Syria or the Russian invasion of Crimea come to mind.
While in office the stock market has gone up 10,000 points and unemployment rates are down to 3.8%, the lowest in at least 18 years. Unemployment numbers are also going down to record lows for minorities and summer youth as Trump helped create more jobs.
He began work on changing, improving the failed ACA. He is getting drug companies to reduce the cost of expensive drugs.
His slogan was America and Americans first. What country doesn't feel the same? But we blamed him for going against globalism which ultimately makes open borders and even more diversity, changing our culture, values, beliefs and traditions - country.
What will we think if he accomplishes all of these improvements? If North Korea destroys its nuclear program; if Iran agrees to changes in the agreement; if China and the EU level the trade playing field; if the stock market keeps going higher; if we find that we are paying much less in taxes; if unemployment goes even lower to below 3.8% when 5.5% is considered full employment. If he is able to reform the ACA and have prescription costs for life saving drugs Would we ever appreciate his work? No! We don't like him and neither does the entire mainstream media (not including the Wall Street Journal). They can't all be wrong.
Now many of us are hoping that something will come of this two year investigation of collusion with the Russians. When first claimed by HRC, it was ridiculed, even by the New York Times, and it is still ridiculous. It has still not been proven, but the Special Prosecutor is determined to find something on Trump, if only to avenge the firing of his good friend and successor.
Can we all continue to dislike him regardless of his accomplishments? Yes, always.
We loved JFK and wept when we heard that he was dead. Many of us knew that he was seeing a lot of women and started an affair with a teenage summer intern, and we forgave him.
When Nixon became President, we decided that we didn't like him and wanted him out, and wished him the worst. When many of us heard about Watergate, we were hoping (many of us on the Left don't pray) that he would leave office and fortunately for us he did.
Many loved Reagan. He was a charismatic, optimistic leader who led us out of a severe fiscal problems of mortgage rates at 16%, high unemployment and he got our American hostages released by Iran. But he made the rich richer by dramatically lowering their tax rate. He was a conservative, but many of us still appreciated him.
We liked Bill Clinton who was charming and bright. When we heard that he had had a 12 year long extramarital affair with a Little Rock celebrity, Gennifer Flowers, he and Hillary denied it but he had to finally acknowledge that it was true after tapes of them were revealed. We forgave him - good old boys will be boys. The same happened when accused of the sexual assault in Little Rock of Paula Jones. The Clintons denied the accusations, blaming the right for it. He later confessed to it and paid Paula $850,000. Then he was said to have had sex in the Oval Office with a 22 years old intern. He denied it while Hillary called her a bimbo not to be believed. He lied about it, but confessed that it was true when the intern produced a stained blue dress that had his DNA. But we still like him, but not so much his wife who the vast majority believe is dishonest. She went on to say in 2016 "When a woman says she was raped, believe her." But she hadn't.
Many of Americans generally liked George II, even though his administration was a disaster. He cut taxes for the rich causing a budget deficit leading to huge job losses and did not respond to warnings about an imminent terrorist attack on us with airplanes before 9/11. But he was gracious when visiting the site of the crash that killed almost 3,000 people. He got us into a pointless war in Iraq costing trillions of our taxes dollars. Iraq is still in chaos and ISIS was born in the midst of the disorder. The invasion gave birth to the "Arab Spring" with people from other Middle East countries seeing one dictator brought down thinking they can topple theirs and they did, sending their countries into turmoil. In Syria, a few hundred thousand Syrians protested the government and insisted that Assad step down. The resistance has been fighting for seven years. Their cities have been bombed and destroyed and more than 500,000 Syrians have lost their lives while even more lost their homes and were forced to flee and Assad is still in power. We didn't hate George II, we blamed his advisors, especially the evil Cheney and his team. By the time he left office, the economy was in shambles, businesses were going bankrupt, and people were losing their homes because of the rising unemployment. We still think that he was a nice, just a little over his head.
We elected Barack Obama who we liked. We still do. He saved the auto industry and the economy. He ensured that we got all the money that we gave to banks and businesses in the weak economy, plus interest. He reduced our troops in Afghanistan fighting another pointless war. He did the same in Iraq. He had great ideas like raising the minimum wage and making community college free. This is a much better idea than Bernie's free four year college tuition for everyone.
We forgive him for fanning the flames of racial conflict. He supported Black Lives Matter, which many believe is a a racist and anti police group that was started under the mistaken impression that a young 6'5" recent high school football player was unarmed and had his hands up when shot by a police officer. That turned out to be untrue.
We believed when he said that diversity made this country great. . Mr. Obama was a globalist with the ultimate goal of ending nations and having one great global economy.
While we forgive him his errors, we don't forgive his first Secretary of State. She further damaged our relationship with Russia and was a cheerleader for Muslims who wanted to overthrow their government. While we helped kill the leader of Libya, we helped the nation become disorganized and deadly. She ignored pleas for more security at our embassy in Bengazi and then lied about the death of four, including the Ambassador, saying it was a spontaneous attack that could not have been anticipated.
We now have our 45th President. We realized immediately that we didn't like him. He was insulting, rude, and a narcissist who doesn't always get his facts straight or find less provocative ways of expressing himself. He wanted to build a wall and promised that Mexico will pay for it. He said that some illegals are murderers, rapists, drug smugglers and criminals of a different stripe. We didn't like that. He could have said we want to stop illegal immigration by building a wall. He could have cited the billions we spend each year on illegal immigration and didn't mention that those who work illegally are taking jobs away from some Americans of African or Latin American heritage, who need the jobs most.
We ignore many of his accomplishments because we don't like him and want him to fail even if it hurts the country. He has appointed an excellent Supreme Court justice, simplified the tax code eliminating most itemized deductions, lowered tax brackets and increased the standard deduction. It will save most of us hundreds or thousands each year. He lowered the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% stimulating hiring and expansion while bringing businesses back to America or getting them to stay here.
He did not micro manage the military in its decisions in Iraq and Afghanistan and in our fight against ISIS. He passed a budget that both parties approved of. When he threatened North Korea, we thought him mad. While previous presidents complained about Korea, they never did enough to stop the North from making missiles and nuclear war heads. Trump got all nations to stop doing business with the country and promised to annihilate the country if a missile lands on American soil. North Korea capitulated and signed an agreement with Trump to denuclearize. Many of us hope that Trump does not get the Nobel Peace Prize for that.
When he threatened tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada, the EU and especially China, we were worried. They are now willing to change their unfair trade practices and our steel and aluminum businesses are now flourishing. His predecessors complained about unfair trade policies but they did nothing about it.
He withdrew from the Iran agreement since they are still making missiles and enriching uranium. They were given $100 billion in the agreement which gave them money to fight in Yemen, Syria and Iraq.
He reduced the contribution we make to NATO and the U.N. We were paying 25% of these budgets to protect Europe or to vote on biased and/or meaningless gestures in the U.N. Their votes on Israel, Syria or the Russian invasion of Crimea come to mind.
While in office the stock market has gone up 10,000 points and unemployment rates are down to 3.8%, the lowest in at least 18 years. Unemployment numbers are also going down to record lows for minorities and summer youth as Trump helped create more jobs.
He began work on changing, improving the failed ACA. He is getting drug companies to reduce the cost of expensive drugs.
His slogan was America and Americans first. What country doesn't feel the same? But we blamed him for going against globalism which ultimately makes open borders and even more diversity, changing our culture, values, beliefs and traditions - country.
What will we think if he accomplishes all of these improvements? If North Korea destroys its nuclear program; if Iran agrees to changes in the agreement; if China and the EU level the trade playing field; if the stock market keeps going higher; if we find that we are paying much less in taxes; if unemployment goes even lower to below 3.8% when 5.5% is considered full employment. If he is able to reform the ACA and have prescription costs for life saving drugs Would we ever appreciate his work? No! We don't like him and neither does the entire mainstream media (not including the Wall Street Journal). They can't all be wrong.
Now many of us are hoping that something will come of this two year investigation of collusion with the Russians. When first claimed by HRC, it was ridiculed, even by the New York Times, and it is still ridiculous. It has still not been proven, but the Special Prosecutor is determined to find something on Trump, if only to avenge the firing of his good friend and successor.
Can we all continue to dislike him regardless of his accomplishments? Yes, always.
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