American politics – Lee Duigon

So You Believe This Guy?

leeduigon(patty)June 18, 2016

Honest John Kerry, now our secretary of state, formerly a senator and presidential wannabe, winner of three Purple Hearts without ever having to spend a day in the infirmary–Honest John Kerry, who prates and babbles all day, every day, about Global Warming and Income Inequality and The New Utopian Super-Nice Borderless World–

John Kerry is putting his $7 million yacht, Isabel, up for sale ( http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/inside_track/2016/06/john_kerry_unloading_yacht_that_made_waves ). You remember: that’s the yacht he ducked out of paying tax on, over $400,000 worth of money that the taxes of an untold number of regular people had to make up for.

Yo, John, when do I get a yacht? How do you propose to equalize incomes in your borderless world so that I can have a yacht and a mansion and a private jet, like you have?

And as for Saving the Planet, why, it would take me half a dozen very busy lifetimes to generate as big a Carbon Footprint as you do in a week.

It dazzles me, it flabbergasts me, that there is anybody out there so witless, so mentally inert, as to believe a single word spoken by the likes of Honest John Kerry. Land o’ Goshen, do you think he believes a single word he says? Do you really?

Our professional full-time rich-as-Croesus political class has got to go, lock, stock and barrel, the whole kit and kaboodle of them. They have lost their fear of God, and they laugh at and despise the undefended masses of people whom they lord it over.

The Lord rebuke them.

Is Trump an ‘Unmitigated Disaster’?

leeduigon(patty)May 6, 2016

I don’t like to disagree with Thomas Sowell. He’s a brilliant man whom I respect, and I’ve never had to disagree with him before. I do it now with some trepidation.

Today, in his townhall.com commentary, Dr. Sowell called the emergence of Donald Trump as the likely Republican presidential nominee “an unmitigated disaster” for the GOP, for the country, and probably even for the world ( http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/05/06/an-unmitigated-disaster-n2158652 ). Gee, he’s that bad?

Sowell flayed Trump for his “unending reckless and irresponsible statements” and wound up hoping that some third party candidate would rise up strong enough to prevent either Trump or Hillary Clinton from winning, throwing the election into the House of Representatives and maybe winding up awarding the White House to someone, anyone, better than Trump or Clinton.

But for the time being, we face a very simple, however distasteful, proposition. We don’t really know what Trump would do as president; but I think we do know what Hillary Clinton would do, and God forbid she gets the chance to do it. In her case we are talking about a left-wing ideologue with a solid track record of criminality. So we are asked to choose between opening a door to a swarm of killer bees that will certainly fly out and sting us to death, or opening a door to the unknown. How hard a choice is that?

The American people are in this situation because we are governed by a political class, backed by academics and unions and movie stars, that has all but destroyed the country. That’s why Trump won all those primaries. That’s why millions of people are prepared to vote for him.

Dr. Sowell does not want Hillary Clinton to be president. That would indeed be an unmitigated disaster.

But until further notice, the only alternative is Donald Trump.