Tuesday, June 07, 2016

HRC--A Few Preliminary Words

This is a HISTORIC moment.  The first woman nominee for president of a major party. 

Hillary Clinton delivered a GREAT SPEECH!
THIS IS A WOW MOMENT.
Now work to deliver her to the presidency.

The Inimitable George Will on Ryan/Trump

I love George Will's expressiveness even if I do not love his politics (See link below.)  He says in part "The Caligulan malice with which Donald Trump administered Paul Ryan’s degradation is an object lesson in the price of abject capitulation to power." Love Caligulan Malice. 
Another:

"The pornographic politics of Trump’s presidential campaign, which was preceded by decades of ignorant bile (about Barack Obama’s birth certificate and much else), have not exhausted Trump’s eagerness to plumb new depths of destructiveness. Herewith the remarkably brief timeline of the breaking of Ryan to Trump’s saddle."  Love "pornographic politics!"
or
"The Hamlet of southeastern Wisconsin had indeed learned something. He had learned Trump’s contemptuous response to his scruples. Trump’s response was an insouciant intensification of his anti-institutional politics — the judicial system, too, is “rigged.”"  Love the Hamlet of Eastern Wisconsin referring of course to "Hamlet" the  Shakespearean epic tragedy of personal destruction that is in the person of Trump.

Now read Will's opinion in its entirety:
NOW SEND THIS MAN TRUMP INTO HIS PSYCHOLOGICAL FIRE OF HADES WHERE AN EPIC LOSS WILL SEND HIS EGOTISTICAL SELF AND NOT INTO THE SANCTITY OF THE OVAL OFFICE WHERE HE DOESN'T BELONG!

Democratic Presidential Convention--On to November

  I watched the Democratic convention last evening until my body's demand for sleep overtook me around midnight.  Having followed thin...