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Is the President a Bad Role Model for Children?
Townhall.com ^ | September 11, 2018 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 09/11/2018 2:50:50 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Truck’s children turned out pretty good.


41 posted on 09/11/2018 8:43:12 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: DoodleDawg

That is rationalization


42 posted on 09/11/2018 8:57:29 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: bert
That is rationalization

So my not considering Bill Clinton as a role model because he has many of the same character flaws as Trump means I'm bigoted against him as well?

43 posted on 09/11/2018 9:06:22 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Kaslin

I didn’t vote for a guy who would use flowery words and blow smoke up my a$$ while sticking a knife in my back.

I think we’ve all had enough of those professional politicians.


44 posted on 09/11/2018 9:10:18 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: Kaslin

Did they ask this about Bill Clinton the rapist

Or Johnny Wadd LBJ who schtupped most of his closest friends wives allegedly with his legendary oversized appendage and bought votes by the precientload

Or JFK who kept a stable of barely legal interns and other office meat around to screw at will and even organize gangbangs of the most nubile for his pals including newsmen while he watched and directed the train all hopped up on all sorts of hormones and fun drugs

But Trump with just simple run of the mill womanizing of very hot women and who apparently raised his kids well gets pilloried


45 posted on 09/11/2018 9:12:37 AM PDT by wardaddy (Wake up and quit aping opinions you think will make you popular here)
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To: Mom MD

I agree on the bragging

However men do like to cherish the memories of the fine women they have known intimately I hate to break it to you

I’m old now I sure as hell remember and I’m so grateful for it

It’s why I’m never bitter about ex loves or affairs ...I’m glad I knew them..they were so lovely in hindsight

Married I avoided for the most part....but married women are sometimes available ...it’s exciting to please an unhappy married woman

I think some guys like that thrill

Or a neglected married woman will act like she needs you ..and she does actually but it’s messy no question
And Trump sure went there

I generally had my limits there

Women will always win the who can cheat the easiest competition


46 posted on 09/11/2018 9:20:24 AM PDT by wardaddy (Wake up and quit aping opinions you think will make you popular here)
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To: Kaslin
In the past 100 years only Coolidge and Ford were good role models for young children in their personal lives. One did a good job as president and the other... not so much.
47 posted on 09/11/2018 9:24:53 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: DoodleDawg

King David was a rotter until he understood his role in life. Does that remind you of anyone?


48 posted on 09/11/2018 9:40:51 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: Mom MD
He may be better than Hillary but I would never want my kids to emulate his behavior

I'd never want my kids to go through life trying to conform to anyone else's life. They must work with their own talents, as he has with his manifest gifts, even the ones like good looks, success and wealth that caused him and so many women to participate together in bad behavior, for which he is now having to pay a price. So if not a role model in every area, he can be an object lesson for kids in that no matter how good you are at some things, all that glitters isn't gold and can come back to bite you.

When a powerful influencer affects our kids, parents must teach their kids to differentiate themselves and be their own person answerable to their Lord, not other people. We had an in-law who broke up our family because she didn't like the (totally non-criminal) offenses of her husband's siblings. Rather than teach her kids at home what values she and her husband wanted, she set about burning everyone else's relationships to the ground, deeply distressing her husband's parents. You guessed it: liberal, elementary school teacher, mainstream Sunday School director.

49 posted on 09/11/2018 11:11:19 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Ain't no reaching across the aisle in Hell.)
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To: Pollster1
I cannot imagine that he is enjoying the job.... Love of country is the only reasonable explanation for billionaire Donald Trump stepping into that swamp voluntarily.

I remember one of his campaign videos so vividly. He said, "I didn't want to have to run for president. I had a beautiful life; I built a beautiful company. But when I saw what was happening to our country, I had to do it. I had to do it."

50 posted on 09/11/2018 11:16:12 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Ain't no reaching across the aisle in Hell.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Thank God my husband and I raised our children with our values. But I was merely answering the question if Turmp was a bad role model. By my standards he is.


51 posted on 09/11/2018 11:16:19 AM PDT by Mom MD ( .)
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To: DoodleDawg
whether Trump is a role model for children to emulate, and I don’t believe he is. I would not want my nieces or nephews to grow up like him.

If your nephew has a wealthy father with a thriving business he expects to take over, exceptional athetic ability and good looks, high testosterone, success and wealth in the middle of a postwar economic boom and a cultural marxist Sexual Revolution, he will inevitably face all the same temptations Trump has faced.

And he could do a lot worse than emulate a man who fought his way back onto his feet time and time again after each critical failure in the midst of his great successes. Because no one is supposed to go through this life as anyone but himself; all fall short of the glory of God.

52 posted on 09/11/2018 11:21:58 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Ain't no reaching across the aisle in Hell.)
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To: Albion Wilde
I remember one of his campaign videos so vividly. He said, "I didn't want to have to run for president. I had a beautiful life; I built a beautiful company. But when I saw what was happening to our country, I had to do it. I had to do it."

I am generally a bit cynical about politicians, which perhaps comes from meeting too many of them. However, I have also known a lot of very wealthy people. I know that Trump didn't become president to get richer, and also not to get access to interns like Hillary's husband since billionaires have that option already. When he said that he "had to do it", I believed it was patriotism. The mystery was what he wanted to accomplish, and I imagine a lot of people are surprised to find that his campaign promises were all true.

53 posted on 09/11/2018 11:25:18 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: wardaddy
Women will always win the who can cheat the easiest competition

Especially if it's the ones whose husbands pay them no attention. The husband won't even notice.

But if a man cheats whose wife pays him no attention, she will still notice, and react like he has graffitied the cathedral. :-)

54 posted on 09/11/2018 11:29:16 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Ain't no reaching across the aisle in Hell.)
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To: Mom MD

Judgment is mine, saith the Lord.


55 posted on 09/11/2018 11:31:40 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Ain't no reaching across the aisle in Hell.)
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To: Pollster1
When he said that he "had to do it", I believed it was patriotism. The mystery was what he wanted to accomplish, and I imagine a lot of people are surprised to find that his campaign promises were all true.

Agreed! But even his goals were no mystery; he had been saying the same things about other countries taking advantage of us economically since the 1980s.

Donald Trump 1980 Interview with Brokaw, age 33

Trump on Oprah discussing foreign trade in 1988

Donald Trump Testimony before Congress on Economic Recovery, 1991

56 posted on 09/11/2018 11:42:40 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Ain't no reaching across the aisle in Hell.)
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To: Kaslin

have to agree with Prager... and very true, Carter is a highly moral being, rare these days, but not a great leader.


57 posted on 09/11/2018 1:56:16 PM PDT by Katya
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To: Albion Wilde

Graffitified....now that’s a word


58 posted on 09/11/2018 9:26:47 PM PDT by wardaddy (Wake up and quit aping opinions you think will make you popular here)
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To: Kaslin

In my opinion, someone who basically made himself super-famous and GOT ELECTED PRESIDENT by sheer force of will is a good role model. Like him or hate him he’s been tremendously successful.


59 posted on 09/13/2018 9:35:33 AM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Kaslin

Is a President that got his willy sucked in the oval office by a barely legal intern a good role model?


60 posted on 09/13/2018 9:49:02 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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