* [Andrew] Jackson is bad because he was mean to the Native americans and Trump is also bad because he is nice to the native Americans.
* To expand on my comments in the earlier thread about Democrats’ enthusiasm for more immigration, all Republican candidates today have to sound more concerned about the security of Israel than they are about the security of the US. Otherwise they would be not allowed on the platform.
The Democrats used to do the Israel pandering. I am old enough to remember a Demorcatic debate, in 1984 during the Mondale-Hart contest, where Mondale and Hart competed to be more enthusiastic about moving the US embassy the 55 miles between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. They took up a good part of the debate on this silly issue, which everyone forgot about after the primary. The Israelis themselves don’t care. If they wanted to make a big deal about this, they could make the point by locating their own embassy to this country in Baltimore, but they don’t bother.
At least the Democrats were pandering to actual voters, the debate took place before a crucial primary in New York and they were pandering to Jewish voters. The Republicans do it because the party depends on a handful of Israeli billionaires to fund it.
* Ted Cruz just said that politicians go to Washington and get in bed with lobbyists. Was that a dig at Marco? He is reported to have had two affairs with lobbyists (female ones) since arriving in DC.
* Jeez, Trump killed it in tonight’s debate. He really does very well when he keeps his temper under control. All he has to do is slow down and explain himself instead of popping off whenever somebody gets under his skin, and he nails it.
It’s like I’m watching a completely different candidate. He actually looks like a plausible commander-in-chief tonight. Carson’s supposedly endorsing him — I wonder if the good doctor prescribed him whatever chill pill he takes himself.
* If Trump does win the nomination, could he please do the Vice Presidential selection as a reality TV show? Maybe a special edition of “The Apprentice”?
* Turkey joining the EU was based on our State Dept.’s addled belief that Islam and a liberal democracy are compatible and that would prove it and our military’s senile nostalgia – wasn’t Turkey our ally in a fight against Soviet expansionism, so let’s help them so they will stay on our side with our new enemy. Except the Turks made a point of proving Islam and liberality are mutually exclusive and our Pentagon no longer has even a vague idea who it is they are supposed to be defending us from, and that is with the largest defense budget in the world. And all of the sudden, the idea of Turkey joining the EU did not seem so important.
* In a more modest United States of America, mailman was one of the most prestigious jobs in the black urban communities. Lets say back in the 1930s, 40s, 50s when blacks were segregated and were actually discriminated against. You had to get a good grade in a civil service exam, you needed to be literate. It was a stable job with a pension. This made you a highly desirable marriage partner. I read this years ago in the Autobiography of Malcolm X.
* Trump speaks about Israel the way many American Jews do. Cruz and Rubio are talking Christian Zionist lingo.
