![]() It doesn’t help in the slightest to say that we’ve survived bad times before when one feels that this is worse than anything that’s happened, at least in my lifetime. Having lived through Watergate, the Clinton impeachment, Vietnam, the McCarthy hearings, etc., I can say without any hesitation that this is the worst in my nearly 82 years. One cannot stand the constant, never-ending bombardment of lies, and the bizarre antics of the president and his Republican cronies. The most recent State of the Union by a deeply disturbed person only adds to the feelings of hopelessness and despair. More and more, in talking with my friends, I hear the constant refrain, “I don’t want to live like this anymore!” In short, we are suffering collectively from deep bouts of depression. While the president recited his formidable successes for all America in his State of the Union address, the Democrats have their Iowa caucuses to offer in rebuttal. Trump is tearing up our Constitution.Īfter spending three angry years attempting to tear down the Trump presidency, the Democratic Party had to settle for tearing up his written words by the petty and fuming Nancy Pelosi.įrom the Mueller report hitting the floor with a thud through the litany of impeachable offenses they struggled to come up with, the Democratic Party exhibited its growing incompetency to offer anything other than rage and indignation. Nancy Pelosi tore up President Trump’s State of the Union speech just as Mr. But let’s not descend to even quietly controlled tantrums rather, let’s vote this tyrant out of office in November. Trump has damaged the nation’s DNA with regard to truth and honor, like a virus gone amok. The speech was, indeed, full of half truths and outright lies. In tearing up her copy of the State of the Union speech before the cameras, Nancy Pelosi embarrassed us all by sinking to President Trump’s level of childish, vindictive behavior. Sadly, the state of our union cannot be strong and hopelessly divided at the same time. ![]() Trump went so far as to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a divisive figure - Rush Limbaugh - who has spent his career encouraging hate of the “other.” The State of the Union address is an improper venue for such a controversial act.īut this is where we are. The president’s supporters cheered him on. ![]() Trump lying about the economic recovery he was handed by President Obama and lying about wanting to protect the health care of Americans with pre-existing conditions when his administration is in court trying to take those protections away by dismantling Obamacare. In this vein, the president’s State of the Union address did nothing to bridge the divide. The other half shrugs their shoulders and wants to move on. Half the country believes, as the founders did, that virtue and character matter profoundly in the office of the president and that Donald Trump’s pressuring a foreign government to dig up dirt on his political opponent was an egregious abuse of power. Re “ Emboldened Trump Makes 2020 Case” (front page, Feb. ![]()
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