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Conservatives put way too much faith in the "purity" of principles.
"Say, how did that "no prep, invisible hand" thing work in the debate Donald?"
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Hillary's highest aspiration at Hofstra was to get under Trump's skin... and she succeeded.
Once Hill was a burr under Simian's saddle, he had nowhere to turn but bravado, bombast and bluster.
And going forward, he will be unusually prone to do (or say) something wildly self-destructive.
The Prince of Darkness has no psychological insight into his narcissism and megalomania.
He only knows that the kind of "success" he has achieved in the past was by apish chest-thumping and canine moon-howling - America's alpha-dog-gorilla.
Tragically (for Trump), thumping and howling only attract lickspittle dimwits eager for "a strict father" to lay down the law and guide them to safety.
Did you see that Hillary has added 6% to her likelihood of winning since Monday's debate. http://projects.
Of course, no one knows the future. But I will happily wager "even money" that Democrats get the Senate back - along with The Oval Office.
Last night, while watching Frontline's "The Choice, 2016" -- http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/09/frontline-soberly-profiles-clinton-and.html -- I was struck that the moment Hillary "struck out on her own" (in the wake of the Lewinsky scandal), she found her true self in the Senate, not just thriving as "the smartest person in the room" but by discovering her chops as an assiduous behind-the-scenes negotiator unusually able to craft bipartisan deals.
Relatedly, I think Obama's greatest shortcoming has been his fondness for "Big Picture Politics" to the exclusion of day-to-day, nitty-gritty, get-down-and-dirty.
I do not fault The Muslim Kenyan Manchurian Candidate Communist for this.
However, Barack HUSSEIN's inability to wrestle with the political practicalities of Congress spotlights Hillary's overlooked strength - a gift for negotiation that enables her to accomplish a great deal despite conservatives' do-nothing opposition-obfuscation-noise-
Imagine the give-and-take negotiation that kept Hillary's marriage from dissolving.
And as Ronald Reagan revealed, her political advancement might have been easier if she simple divorced Bill: she might have received higher regard from that broad swathe of Americans whose abiding passion is to mete out punishment.
Ronald Reagan And American Conservatism's Normalization Of Divorce In American Politics
(It is easily forgotten that Christianity is much more opposed to divorce than to fornication. Perhaps no culture has so readily accommodated fornication Catholic Italian culture, not to mention the sexual carousing of numerous popes themselves. Here is Wikpedia's list of "Sexually Active Popes" - https://en.wikipedia.org/
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To Expose Our Children To Donald Trump Is Not Just Child Abuse, But Egregious Child Abuse
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Hillary's Ad About Donald Trump As Role Model: Our Children Are Watching
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To Expose Our Children To Donald Trump Is Not Just Child Abuse, But Egregious Child Abuse
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Increasingly, I am aware that American conservatives MUST resort to conspiratorial thinking because Truth is not on their side.
Then, having plunged into the swamp of Byzantine intrigue, all that's left is the consolation prize of "making stuff up" - inventing "facts" as required by "ideological purity."
There is, of course, a chance that Trump might win.
But don't bet the farm.
And if he does win, the victory will be Pyrrhic, a way for God/Karma to collapse America's alleged "exceptionalism," which, by my lights, is indistinguishable from the hubristic Pride that catapulted Satan from the parapets of Heaven.
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A
"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: "It's a pound." Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating."
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/donald-trump-and-denise-de-rougemont.html
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image
when it turns out God hates all the same people you do."
Tom Weston S. J.
"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image
when it turns out God hates all the same people you do."
Tom Weston S. J.
Donald Trump Reverses His Position Within The Same Speech!
What's To Prevent His Reversal On Anything?
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 6:05 PM, FV wrote:
Dear ATrump must have gotten the word that he actually lost the debate big time because he's talking about Hillary's health again. He also went back to complaining about the rigged system when he was running for the nomination.
How many things can you hold on to in life without getting a stroke? Of course he can't let the birtherism issue go, he can't let anything go.LoveF
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