POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN BY NEIL REYNOLDS IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
"For a president,
pride can prove a fatal weakness'
What a colossally ignorant assertion, demonstrably false.
No one runs for that office who does not have an ego as big
as an aircraft carrier.
And the greatest presidents have had the most overweening pride.
Franklin Roosevelt had a titanic ego.
So did Theodore.
And Kennedy.
Globe, please get a new columnist who has something to say
to educated people.
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"it doesn't
matter who wins. The usa is on the wrong track and neither side will do what is
needed to right the ship."
Yes, It truly does not matter.
Other than to the giant egos of the two contenders and to
those benefitting from the disposition of the spoils in appointments.
The United States has learned the neat trick of appearing to
be a democracy while in fact being the same kind of plutocracy it was in the
1790s.
The government within the government gets its way no matter
which of two very similar candidates wins.
Faux journalists like Reynolds play around the edges with
meaningless details having nothing to do with the real engine of power.
