Tee-hee-hee. Old Harry was another colorful character. I remember stories of his writing a salty letter to a critic who had panned his daughter’s singing. Something about the man might end up needing a truss.
That’s simply untrue. The ‘common good’ or ‘common wealth’ fundamentally references the active participation of all citizens in politics and public service. Dictators have always evolved from their own bad government citing a national emergency to get arbitrary powers. Dictators never cite the ‘common good’ as the reason to monopolize government.
My parents greatly liked Truman. They didn’t much care for FDR who, they felt, was an eastern establishment intellectual. But they loved Truman, and part of the reason was that he was plain-spoken.
That’s really just harsh talk. Half the liberals criticize him for taking too much responsibility for what happens on his watch. No matter what he says or does, liberals condemn it.
I never said anything about Biden or supporting Biden. I was calling out the absolutely astounding decision that Republican Party made in choosing Trump to begin with. ANY of the other candidates would have been better…he was literally the worst choice to my mind. By a long shot. As I said, I could even get behind Mike Pence, with reservations…
RR quoted you and I quoted RR. Your quote came along for the ride, which is why you got a notification, but I was responding to RR, not to you. And I’m sure RR meant Biden.LeafByNiggle:
Your putting words in my mouth. I didn’t mention the name Joe Biden nor for that matter Democrats once.
I think the voters made the decision, not the party as an organization. Trump wasn’t my first choice. Getting a little fuzzy on it, but I don’t think he was my second either. But the voters preferred him. I think by the time our own primary rolled around, I had decided to vote for Trump.
Her voting record is not debatable. The label of liberal is. I looked up where this came from, and to tweak it a little, the claim was that she was the most liberal Senator, not just she had the most liberal voting record. Part of that was based on the lack of bill sponsorship. I think the context of this is needed. She has been a US Senator for less than 4 years. She was a district attorney of some flavor form more than 25 years.
Rural Electrification Act.
He did not rise to power in a vacuum. He is more a product of what was happening in the Republican Party. He may be a personality, but he is no leader. The Tea Party kept slipping further back into history every election, devolving society and reversing all social progress in its move to reverse some changes seen as wrong. That is why race issues have once again become an issue, along with nationalism.
Noooooo. Much of the media has undermined its own credibility by extreme partisanship and false reporting. It’s partisan. Liberals attack Fox and Limbaugh. Conservatives attack the MSM. If the media was consistently non-partisan and factual even most of the time, nobody would be complaining about it.
Are you kidding? You don’t think Comey, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Clinesmith, Brennan, Clapper, and others are worthy of criticism?
The common good/common wealth is the fundamental principle of all free countries. The preamble of the US…