No moment in the 2016 presidential campaign has cried out more for a unifying candidate than the police shootings of two black men last week and the ensuing national uproar, followed by the shocking sniper ambush that killed five police officers in Dallas.Neither Trump nor Clinton, it seems, has what it takes to do what, it seems, America needs now. Clinton "lacks the public emotion, oratorical skills and reputation for honesty to persuade large numbers of Americans to see things her way." And Trump is "sowing division and hatred" and "electrif[ying]crowds... through provocations."
And no other moment has revealed more starkly how hard it is for Donald J. Trump and Hillary Clinton to become that candidate....
What's missing? Why is racial discord the problem of the summer of 2016? If anyone has what it takes to unify the country over race it is Barack Obama, who is President right now and who has been President for 7 1/2 years. If it makes any sense to be deciding the current presidential election on this issue, if this longed-for capacity is something that can possibly exist, then Barack Obama would be doing it now and would have been doing it for years.
Before you push us to judge whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump would do better in bringing us together in racial harmony, Mr. Healy, please say a few words about why President Obama has failed. Of course, neither Clinton nor Trump inspires hope for a new opportunity at racial harmony. That's what Obama did in 2008. He was ideal for that issue and we voted for the hope. Now, so many years later, things seem even worse. Can you analyze how that happened? Because that did happen. I don't see how we can begin to think about what more Trump or Clinton could do unless we understand why President Obama failed.
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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 413 of 413There are always such articles. There have been many about the NPA. It is the romance of the rebel. Granted, the NPA leadership has always been well educated and well spoken, and the natural Filipino friendliness and courtesy can make utter villains sympathetic. Its interesting that there are no such articles about embedding with the security forces, which doubtless, should such an odd article be produced, can easily be made to seem just as sympathetic.
well I bid adieu, buwaya, it's been an enlightening conversation, now the nazguls will come again and soil this blog,
I do believe the Nazguls and Strigoi have been sent elsewhere to do their foul deeds.
I'd raise a glass to the vanquished, but they don't deserve it.
Anyone with half a brain and/or who hadn't deeply imbibed the Obama Koolaid knew from the get-go he was going to be a disaster of a president who'd set back race relations many years.
What were the clues? Oh I dunno, how about he had zero executive leadership experience, attended a hate whitey church for twenty-something years, sealed his school records (kind of makes you wonder what kind of papers he wrote while getting his degree in Constitutional law?) and the biggest clue was his anointing by the media. It's pretty much a given that any candidate the media gets behind is going to be a disaster.
Palin as a vice-president candidate got a major media anal exam. Remember the reporter who rented a home behind her home so he could spy on her family? If Obama had gotten one-tenth the vetting she did he wouldn't have been elected.
Or there's another option. Yes, Obama could say something, but there's a third-party candidate who doesn't have negatives over 50% AND who can speak a message of unity.
http://www.koat.com/news/libertarian-presidential-candidate-gary-johnson-weighs-in-on-the-dallas-shooting/40437808
Trump and Hillary are too divisive and too polarizing to bring anyone together. And we shouldn't hold this substandard president to do such a job.
We’re gonna spread happiness
We’re gonna spread freedom
Obama’s gonna change it
Obama’s gonna lead ’em
We’re gonna change it
And rearrange it
We’re gonna change the world.
Good times, good times. I hear they still sing this at funerals in Chicago and Dallas, city council meetings in Iraq, in the burned out rubble of Libya, at WMD assembly depots in Syria and by refugee columns headed out of Turkey.
Amazing how these discussions fall apart after maybe a day and a half. The last maybe 100 comments seemed mostly to be name calling.
And we shouldn't hold this substandard president to do such a job.
Isn't Johnson a substandard Libertarian? And Weld is simply an Eastern liberal Republican.
I like my libertarians like I like my women -- heartless and rich. Put Koch on the ticket and we can talk.
BTW, if any culture in America today is Hobbsian, it's the inner city one, where life is indeed nasty, brutish and short. And not because of white cops but because blacks slaughter each other.
The inner cities have been under complete Democrat control for many decades.
Gee, it's almost like R & B name drops authors without actually having read or understood them.
So, Republicans blame Democrats for Black pathologies.
And Democrats blame Republicans for Black pathologies.
I say it's there own damn fault, like them hillbillies that brew up meth in desert trailer parks (lookin' at you, R&B).
Obama didn't "fail." He was never interested in reconciliation. His goal is something very different.
Obama didn't "fail." He was never interested in reconciliation. His goal is something very different.
I agree. Racial harmony was never on his agenda.
"New Collectivist Dictionary
"Vitriol: having the temerity to disagree with your leaders (READ: betters) on a substantive matter of public policy."
Indeed. See also, "Hate." Because anti-statism is "Hate," whereas statism is Love. Big Brother loves you, and nothing shows Love like someone putting a gun to your head.
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