One thing that we like about Donald Trump is that he tells it like it is. He is right when he says that America wants leadership. We have had enough of politicians who put their finger in the air via polling to determine what they should do instead of leading. This is the reason that Chris Christy is so popular in New Jersey. He says what he wants to do, takes on all challengers to his plans with forthright honesty, and eventually wins over his critics.
Ronald Reagan was also the type of person who Americans are demanding. He had a way of taking complex issues and breaking them down to essential understanding points. Additionally, his sense of humor made him very approachable. There were stories of he and Tip O'Neal sitting down to a drink after a day battling each other. They became friends even though they were from different parties. They could reach agreements due to their mutual respect.
We do not see that from the current resident of the White House. Instead of leadership, we see conniving, backstabbing and corrupt activities. Rather than being forthright with the American people, we have continual lies, deceit and cover-ups. It has not been this bad since the Nixon Administration.
When Trump says that we need leadership, he is thinking what most Americans (not the low information ones) are. We expect our President to be honest with us, to have an ethical administration (not promise and not deliver) and to do what is in the best interests of the country (and not necessarily for his party.) Since Reagan we have not had this.
Will we every return to those days, we hope so. Time will tell but there is one thing we know for sure. That is, we cannot continue the direction of the Obama Administration. A good start would be to have Attorney General resign and be charged with crimes.
Conservative Tom
Trump: Americans 'Desperate for Leadership'
Wednesday, 29 May 2013 06:53 PM
Donald Trump declined to say on Wednesday whether he was running for president in 2016 but said that “people in this country are desperate for leadership."
The billionaire businessman told Neil Cavuto on Fox News: “Whether it’s me — or, frankly, let it be somebody — but somebody has to come along and straighten out this country. We’re in trouble.”
The New York Post reported on Monday that Trump has spent $1 million to research his political standing in certain states. He told the Oakland County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner in Michigan last week that it was “highly unlikely” that he would seek the White House in 2016.
“I’m looking at a lot of different things,” Trump told Cavuto. In particular, he said he wants to acquire more properties and upgrade his Doral Golf Resort in Florida.
Trump said he told the Michigan group that he hoped that President Barack Obama was more effective in leading the nation.
“I’d be very happy if the president did a great job,” Trump said. “Before I am a Republican, I am an American. I want this country to be great again. It’s not going to be great again.”
He said the research effort for 2016 grew out of concerns by “a group of people who hate seeing the United States being ripped off and taken advantage of by virtually every country in the world.
“We used to be the smart ones, and we’re no longer the smart ones,” Trump added. “We’re like the dummy — and it’s very sad.
“I have a large group of people who want to see this stop. We can’t just keep doing it. We’re a debtor nation. Our airports are falling apart. Our roads and bridges are falling apart.”
He declined to speculate on who might receive the Republican nomination for president in 2016, though he noted that oft-mentioned New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was “a friend of mine, and I like Chris.”
When Cavuto asked whether Trump would not run if Christie did, the entrepreneur responded: “It’s just too early to see what happens. We have a have a long way to go. You’re talking about a long way out. I want to see this country be great again.”
Trump would not run as an independent, however.
“I’m a Republican. It’s a lot better to do it and keep the two-party system. It really seems to have worked, but it hasn’t been working so well lately.
“The two-party system is good,” he added. “It’s very, very tough running as an independent, extremely tough.”
On the international front, Trump cited the Obama administration’s failure to deal effectively with Syria, noting that Russia planned to send advanced air-defense missiles to Damascus to fend off a no-fly zone under consideration by the White House.
“Russia is putting all sorts of weapons there to shoot down our planes,” Trump said. “This is just crazy. What are we doing? What are we doing as a country? We don’t even know who we’re fighting for.”
Regarding China, Trump called America’s relationship with Beijing “a total disaster.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping is to visit the United States next month and meet with Obama in California.
“They’re not our friends,” Trump said. “I’m not knocking China. I’m saying I wish our people were smart so we can compete with China — because, right now, we are not competing with China.”
He cited how the country manipulates its currency by artificially strengthening the American dollar to make Beijing’s currency — and, thus, its exports — comparatively cheaper.
“What they do with the manipulation of their currency — though brilliant; nobody’s ever done it better — China is taking total advantage of the United States,” Trump said. “And they’re making us look like fools.”
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Regarding Iran-Contra…
ReplyDelete"On Reagan, Mixter reported that the President was "briefed in advance" on each of the illicit sales of missiles to Iran. The criminality of the arms sales to Iran "involves a number of close legal calls," Mixter wrote. He found that it would be difficult to prosecute Reagan for violating the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) which mandates advising Congress about arms transfers through a third country-the U.S. missiles were transferred to Iran from Israel during the first phase of the operation in 1985-because Attorney General Meese had told the president the 1947 National Security Act could be invoked to supersede the AECA.
As the Iran operations went forward, some of Reagan's own top officials certainly believed that the violation of the AECA as well as the failure to notify Congress of these covert operations were illegal-and prosecutable. In a dramatic meeting on December 7, 1985, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger told the President that "washing [the] transaction thru Israel wouldn't make it legal." When Reagan responded that "he could answer charges of illegality but he couldn't answer charge that 'big strong President Reagan passed up a chance to free hostages," Weinberger suggested they might all end up in jail. "Visiting hours are on Thursdays," Weinberger stated. As the scandal unfolded a year later, Reagan and his top aides gathered in the White House Situation Room the day before the November 25 press conference to work out a way to protect the president from impeachment proceedings.
On the Contra operations, Mixter determined that Reagan had, in effect, authorized the illegal effort to keep the contra war going after Congress terminated funding by ordering his staff to sustain the contras "body and soul." But he was not briefed on the resupply efforts in enough detail to make him criminally part of the conspiracy to violate the Boland Amendment that had cut off aid to the Contras in October 1984.
Mixter also found that Reagan's public misrepresentations of his role in Iran-Contra operations could not be prosecuted because deceiving the press and the American public was not a crime."
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB365/
--David
P.S. I followed this scandal very closely at the time. The only honorable man involved was Admiral Poindexter. I felt sorry for him. He fell on his sword for Reagan.