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[GlockThe Vote]

Nail meet head

[sten]

maybe oprah will succeed with 0bama where trump failed

[snippy_about_it]

I love this author. Thanks for the ping to another excellent article.

[Track9]

Bumpity bump

[DuncanWaring]

It has traded in the rock of character...

A failing that came to the fore in 1992 with one of the main lies of the Clinton campaign ... "The character of the candidate doesn't matter" (the other main lie being "worst economy in 50 years", when it had clearly been far worse a mere 12 years earlier during the dying days of the Carter administration).

[Albion Wilde]

"Most products can be the same Made in China crap produced by slave labor at minimum wages and ...minimum quality ... you will have to buy another one before too long, but that's okay because brands aren't made to last. They're meant to make you feel good...at the point of purchase. That's all.

"America is being run by a Made in Indonesia leader whose performance is as bad as any of the... crap you'll find in Wal-Mart. And it doesn't matter because he's a brand. The ...younger and urban voters don't care what he's made of, they care how he makes them feel. They may lose their job the next day and their prospects for paying off their college loans may be missing, but if it makes them feel good at the point of polling, then that's what matters."

[Responsibility2nd]

JFK seemed like a flash in the pan. He went away and we had a series of marginal figures, classical pols laboring away for a crack at the top. And then the Republicans got desperate and up came Reagan. And the Democrats got desperate in turn and came up with Clinton. After two terms of Bush, the Democrats became desperate a second time and hurled Obama all over the country. What the Republicans will come up with after two terms of Obama has yet to be determined.

 

In the context of his flash in the pan - character-less politicians; his inclusion of Ragan is dead wrong. Reagan may have been a movie star, but he was genuine. The Real Deal.