Opinion · 114th Congress
Today’s Lesson for America’s Children: Good Behavior Is for Losers
For many Americans, the worst moment of election night wasn’t the 3 a.m. victory speech by Donald Trump.
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For many Americans, the worst moment of election night wasn’t the 3 a.m. victory speech by Donald Trump.
I want to be president of all Americans … because we have to heal this country.”
“For us, there is only the trying.” Of course, a poem is not didactic like an essay.
God help us.” And then there was the critique that probably most rankled Trump, with his claims to dubious billions: “Truth be told, the richest thing about Donald Trump is his hypocrisy.”
afternoon marching peacefully along the sweat-soaked streets around Philadelphia’s City Hall with their hand-lettered signs conveying their uncompromising mood: “Bernie or Bust” and “Going Green — Come With Us
I also liked his choice for vice president and his Christian values.” But Hogue also sounded a cautionary note: “Sometimes his antics are too much. He’s quite out there.”
Cotton’s speech to the South Carolina delegates cleverly skirted the Trump problem by never mentioning the GOP nominee.
As president, though, Bush transcended the campaign that elected him.
In an appearance on Fox News, Trump sneered that the president “doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands.”
Then a few lines from an LBJ arms-control speech: “These are the stakes … We must either love each other or we must die.”
Presidential candidates are quick to complain that an extended campaign means giving the same rote answers to the same rote questions, the same stump speech to the same political reporters.
It’s the idea that the world is playing us as Uncle Sucker — that sophisticated Europeans are sniggering at us even as we protect them now and saved them in two world wars.
NEW YORK — It’s only April and already the 2016 campaign has treated us to a tour of the outer reaches of democracy from arcane convention delegate selection rules to Donald Trump’s notion of rewriting