Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

We've talked about that on here. It seems like a lot of people are noticing it, suddenly. Mrs. Whitman sent me a text message about it this morning. (She has an incredible little figure, as an aside.) YF has said that it's a New York thing.

 

Not the "the" part. Though I believe Trump would say the Irish or the Italians too.

The New York thing is talking openly about race and ethnicity in a way that isn't racist, but is not common elsewhere, and can make others uncomfortable, because they aren't used to it.

(Though anyone in politics talks this way. You have to. You're targeting people very specifically, and crafting messages to appeal to them.)

 

Trying too hard with the humblebrags today.

Don't shoehorn them in. Let them come organically.

 

Some of the critique is now coming from Sanders supporters who were about, oh, 3 when Bill Clinton was elected president.

Sanders has allowed a lot of it. He's run an unusually pollyannish campaign.

 

But if you accept that logic how was Barack Obama qualified to be President?

 

He was a state senator, a United States Senator, a community activist, a professor of law, and a distinguished graduate of two of our top universities. Much more importantly, he displayed again and again, in both his book "The Audacity of Hope" and on the debate stage, that he was a serious person who had seriously engaged with the issues he was being asked to confront. Trump is a fool who has shown little interest in such engagement. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have about the same level of political experience as Obama did at the time of his election, correct? You will never hear me call either one of them unqualified or a fool.

 

How is that community of his doing these days?

 

LOL. Stop Dick.

He had no accomplishments. He wasn't a professor of law.

He was a pie in the sky theoretician, who's proven to be an ineffective President, who's damaged his party.

 

I'm a registered Republican. I'd slice off a pinky toe for a George HW Bush instead of a Trump or Cruz as the nominee.

 

That's fine, but the idea that he had not engaged with political issues before he ran for president, a la Trump, is simply preposterous on its face.

 

That cuts both ways, though. We (well, not me) project upon successful politicians -- especially at the national level -- a patina of competence with regards to myriad things about which they have absolutely no clue. I mean, if you had to get stuck on a desert island with just one of this season's presidential aspirants, whom would you choose? I'd choose either Carson or Rand Paul, because they have something of practical value to offer independent of the ability to con people out of votes.

 

You'd vote for a HW over Hillary?