Would Maxine Waters make a great president?
Would Maxine Waters make a great President?Maxine Waters is 79 years old.Women typically live longer and age better than men, on average, and generalizing really broadly. And she seems healthy and vigorous. In 2020, though, she'll be 81. I really do not get this recent enthusiasm for geriatric candidates for President. Everyone seems to be saying, “Well, Trump got elected, so that means he's not too old, so someone significantly older than him should be just fine.”No. The Presidency is a really draining job, both physically and mentally. Look at the inaugural vs. two years in pictures of even our relatively young recent Presidents.I love Maxine Waters, and feel zero hesitation at all in saying no, she shouldn't run for President.Aside from the very serious age issue that everyone wants to ignore, I think Rep. Waters is a great legislator. She's active, involved, attentive to issues, and prepared to be as combative as she needs to be.I don't perceive her as someone who'd be happy with the very different grind of being President. I might be wrong about that. And if she became Speaker (not likely at this point), and from there due to the deaths or resignations of President and Vice President became President, she'd dig in and do her best to be a good President, and I seriously doubt that even in that circumstance, she'd seek election in her own right.I think she'd do her duty, and then be heading home to retire.We have a range of potential new leaders in the House and Senate. Can we please stop chasing after either celebrities with zero preparation for the Presidency, or the very elderly?
Would Donald Trump make a great president?
Yes. Trump would make a good president. Much better than what we've had recently. Trump isn't afraid to tell the truth, nor does he even try to sugar-coat the truth. America needs real change, so I'll consider voting for ANYONE that isn't a Clinton, a Bush or an Obama. Lets save America by rescuing our middle-class. "Worst President Ever… Obama’s Legacy – Destruction of US Middle Class" by Jim Hoft http://www.thegatewaypundit.com
What do you think of Donald Trump as the president?
I personally feel that President Trump is doing his job as Commander and Chief very well, better than many expected him to do.I am a conservative and therefore will always want a president that supports conservative values.Does President Trump sometimes say or do things that I disagree with? sure, at times, but then again so does everyone.In my personal opinion, people in the west (America, Europe, Canada) have been under attack from the radical left “liberals” for the last 20 or so years.The left have been trying to force people to subscribe to their “progressive” views and marxist agenda, and anyone that has opposing views or refuses to just yield and simply tow the “liberal” line is routinely attacked by the left.For many, President Trump respresents a “push back” against liberal ruling class.This coupled with the fact that President Trump and his administration are actually implementing policies that are good for America and the American people, make him a great President.Of course those on the left will be anti President Trump, anti his administration, his supporters and anti conservatives in general.I am a white male, a god fearing christian, I work hard and believe in the rule of law. I also believe in self reliance, personal responsibility, I am against forced social policies and forced collectivism, I support the right to self defence, free speach, free thought, I also support LEGAL immigration but oppose illegal immigration, I believe in secure borders and the obligation to US citizens to protect those borders, I support law enforcement and the military and I support the constitution and all of is amendments.The left are welcome to view me and people like me as they like, that is their right.However, just because the left want to label myself and others like me, who do not identify with, or subscribe to their “one world acceptable progressive” narrative as racists, anti science, bigots. anti immigrant, homophobes, islamaphobes, nazi’s, fascists ect, does not make true.I however will continue support President Trump and his goal to “make America great again”.I will continue to do so with pride, as I will continue to ignore and rise above the divisive slurs and insults from the left as they continue to play the game of “identity politics”.
In your opinion, can Trump be a good president even if he is a terrible person?
Can he be? It's possible. Will he be? He's still got three to seven years, so it's possible. Will he just be yet another politician who will likely not be remembered for much of anything after his term(s) as president is over? Most likely. Unless he achieves something major/participates in a world war (please don't), then he's probably not going to be remembered past maybe a generation or two, like most Presidents before him. So yes, Trump has every ability to be a great President despite being a rather unpalatable human being, after all everyone loves them some JFK (including Marilyn Monroe, Mimi Alford, and Judith Campbell Exner), but the odds are far more likely that he will be a mediocre President which only a handful of history majors and Jeopardy contestants will remember in fifty years.While I certainly have no knowledge of the future, if I did I would probably be in a mental asylum, if the past year is any indication of the next three to seven then we're all in for a bunch of talk and very little action. Perhaps one or two major signature actions like the (pointless) border wall or the tax “cut” which will likely be unrecognizable after all three branches get done with it. In a way, I see Trump as being similar to Obama: aside from the Healthcare bill being passed (sort of), not that much actually happened. Just replace the words “Obama” and “Healthcare” with “Trump” and “immigration.”
If Trump becomes president, which country will you immigrate to?
The good news is: there are plenty of options available. If Trump becomes president, it will likely cause one of the biggest mass movements of people in a long time. I just hope all those people supportive of a free society (aka, a society in Trump is not the leader) meet their prospective country's immigration requirements. In a way, Trump's very unlikely election can bring a silver lining :)
Would you help President Trump make America great again?
If Trump had any plan that would actually make America greater (it never stopped being great), this Democrat would be on board. I do not oppose Trump reflexively. I’d love to see him (and all of us) succeed wildly. However, when I evaluate each of his proposals, they just all suck.The one example I’ve seen so far of a plan that most Americans could get behind is the repair of the infrastructure. Everyone wants to do that. Obama wanted to do that, but the GOP Congress obstructed every attempt to do it. Trump should have led with this, but the perpetual Republican boner for ending Obamacare got in the way.The main problem is that the two prongs of Trump’s jobs plan are both idiotic:Bring back high-paying manufacturing jobs. This is never going to happen. No employer is going to pay Americans $20 per hour for unskilled work that can be done in China or Mexico for under $2 per hour. Any manufacturers that do return to the U.S., to a certain ticker tape parade from Trump, are going to be featuring jobs done by robots. That helps nobody. Those robots will also be made overseas.Create jobs by getting rid of brown people. The second prong of Trump’s plan is to get all of those illegal Latinos out of America, thus creating millions of new job opportunities for native-born whites. Great idea, except that white people won’t do these jobs, which are mostly in construction, restaurants, landscaping, domestic work, unskilled healthcare and manual labor. Neither do these jobs pay much by American standards. Immigrants can only do them because they often pool multiple earnings to share inexpensive housing units. Native-born Americans are not going to do that.If Trump wants broad support for his plans to improve the country, he should use that self-reported big brain of his to come up with some plans that aren’t based upon a toxic and ineffective combination of folly and hate.
Why do so many people consider Ronald Reagan a great president?
When Ronald Reagan took office, I was a younger man at the beginning of my career and other than Watergate, it was the beginning of my political consciousness. My feeling at the time was that America was portrayed as not being great anymore, both at home and abroad. I was advised not to travel outside the U.S. because of safety issues. I remember hearing regularly that Ronald Reagan was a buffoon, a B-movie actor and not that successful at it. The same people said it was hardly believable that California elected him Governor but there was no way the U.S. could elect such an unqualified candidate. When he won the election, people said it was inevitable because Carter was so bad.One man, a man with a vision, courage and determination, changed the United States within a couple of years. Instead of being afraid to travel abroad, I was proud to be American. He was tough and stubborn. He changed the perception of a nation and that is, above all else, why he was great. We have a 2 party system so there will always be heated debate about Ronald Reagan’s legacy. Ronald Reagan proved only 35 years ago that one person can turn it around and lift the spirit of a nation from fear and despair to pride and optimism.We need a leader now who can do exactly that. Not many in either camp believed Ronald Reagan would prove to be the President he became. So maybe one of the two candidates running for office of the President in 2016 will turn out to surprise many of us. Based on what we have seen so far, I don’t think so.