Entry Submitted by MenoReno at 8:15 AM EDT on June 24, 2018
"Re: MenoReno and Others" by StandUpGuy - 6.24.18
Thank you for your thoughtful post on the discussion concerning our current POTUS, whom I refer to as Trumposaurus Rex. I understand your position as respecting the office, not necessarily the individual that holds it.
I remember during Richard Nixon's last months before he was forced to resign, he was championed by a small city rabbi named Baruch Korff who took much the same position as you have taken, as defending the position, not necessarily the person occupying the office. He appeared several times on the Johnny Carson show doing his best to support the office. I knew him personally. He was my Rabbi, who Bar Mitzvahed me on the day that President Kennedy was assassinated.
That aside, we all know what happened to Nixon. Few people around today would argue that he didn't deserve what happened to him. Which brings us to the current POTUS. You stated that the active President has the right, given to them by the voting public, to administer the office as he sees fit. If this was true, then we would be talking about President Clinton (OUCH!!), not Trump. The voting public gave her 3 million more votes than the Trumpster. For those who have forgotten, it was the political insiders, otherwise known as the Electoral College, who selected him, not of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Next you state that people and organizations have the right to protest his actions, but once the actions are put into play, they should stop complaining and move on. Does that mean if the POTUS issues an executive order to separate immigrant's children from their illegal parents and wharehoused in retention centers, we should not object? And that's just the boys. Where are the girls and babies being stored? The media and the press have the right to question such a policy, as it goes against the American grain. For decades we have been a bastion for those who were driven out of their own countries by varied circumstances. Building walls to keep them out is not part of the American character.
Then you go on to accuse the ex-President as the 'puppet master' whose 'minions' are "doing their level best to frustrate and interfere with the proper and rightful operation of the Government-of-the-Day." Really? Isn't that what the Republicans did during the Obama Administration? Isn't that the duty of the opposition party if they disagree with the contemporary administration's policy?
Let me clearly state that I am not one of Obama's 'minions. I didn't even vote for him. But suggesting that I should support the current POTUS policies because my emotions are colored instead of rational logic, is true poppycock. America is great because each and every citizen has the right to dissent. We are not governed by an imperious master of the Executive Branch, much to the chagrin of the current office holder.
MenoReno
"Re: MenoReno and Others" by StandUpGuy - 6.24.18
Thank you for your thoughtful post on the discussion concerning our current POTUS, whom I refer to as Trumposaurus Rex. I understand your position as respecting the office, not necessarily the individual that holds it.
I remember during Richard Nixon's last months before he was forced to resign, he was championed by a small city rabbi named Baruch Korff who took much the same position as you have taken, as defending the position, not necessarily the person occupying the office. He appeared several times on the Johnny Carson show doing his best to support the office. I knew him personally. He was my Rabbi, who Bar Mitzvahed me on the day that President Kennedy was assassinated.
That aside, we all know what happened to Nixon. Few people around today would argue that he didn't deserve what happened to him. Which brings us to the current POTUS. You stated that the active President has the right, given to them by the voting public, to administer the office as he sees fit. If this was true, then we would be talking about President Clinton (OUCH!!), not Trump. The voting public gave her 3 million more votes than the Trumpster. For those who have forgotten, it was the political insiders, otherwise known as the Electoral College, who selected him, not of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Next you state that people and organizations have the right to protest his actions, but once the actions are put into play, they should stop complaining and move on. Does that mean if the POTUS issues an executive order to separate immigrant's children from their illegal parents and wharehoused in retention centers, we should not object? And that's just the boys. Where are the girls and babies being stored? The media and the press have the right to question such a policy, as it goes against the American grain. For decades we have been a bastion for those who were driven out of their own countries by varied circumstances. Building walls to keep them out is not part of the American character.
Then you go on to accuse the ex-President as the 'puppet master' whose 'minions' are "doing their level best to frustrate and interfere with the proper and rightful operation of the Government-of-the-Day." Really? Isn't that what the Republicans did during the Obama Administration? Isn't that the duty of the opposition party if they disagree with the contemporary administration's policy?
Let me clearly state that I am not one of Obama's 'minions. I didn't even vote for him. But suggesting that I should support the current POTUS policies because my emotions are colored instead of rational logic, is true poppycock. America is great because each and every citizen has the right to dissent. We are not governed by an imperious master of the Executive Branch, much to the chagrin of the current office holder.
MenoReno
