ONE LINER 0017 - BIRTHER 'Trump' Movement

In 2008, when Barak Housed Obama was about to become the 44th President of the United States of America, the BIRTHER Movement was born.  It was led, for at least 5 years, by Donald J Trump who is about to become the 45th Presidents of the same United States of America.

The most outrageous thing associated with the Birther Movement, was not the fact that they were trying to delegitimize the President Obama, claiming that he wasn’t worn in the States.

The most outrageous thing was, and quite ingenious, was that instead of dismissing such a charge as completely stupid as irrelevant (I will explain why in a moment), all Democrats and anybody supporting the President, assumed the defensive position, trying to prove that Obama WAS born in the States.

The bully (and I mean Donald J Trump) managed to stupefy all Americans, and cry denying the charge! 

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Time has past…  In 2016 Primaries to the Republican Nomination to the Presidential race, there happened to be Senator Ted Cruz.  I do not want to talk about his lack of virtues, and the IQ making the monkeys look like ‘brainiacs’. 

What I am writing here and now is that, like President Obama he was born in a family consisting of an American mother, and foreign-national father.  And this is where the similarities end.

Senator Cruz was born in Canada, not in the States.  And as far as this argument is concerned, Canada is the same as Kenia, or any other country - it ain’t the USA.

And yet, Cruz, being born outside of the country, from a singe American parent, was eligible to run for the Presidency of the USA.

It was, all legal, and agreed by both sides of the isle. 

Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution imposes only three eligibility requirements on persons serving as president – based on the officeholder’s age, time of residency in the U.S., and citizenship status. Under the Twelfth Amendment, the same three qualifications apply to the Vice President of the United States: 

* Only "natural-born" U.S. citizens (or those born abroad, but only to parents at least one of whom was a U.S. citizen at the time) may serve president of the United States.

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How is it possible that Trump could have manipulated the discussion on the presidential requirements the way he did.  How is it possible, that NO-ONE ever rose asking the questions I ask, and dismissing the absurd and completely immaterial, and completely irrelevant accusation.

I am ashamed for all Americans, who, instead of reading the Constitution, engaged in a straggle on the Trump’s terms.

Shame…

ONE LINER 0016 - Presidential First Dance - 1st Lady or 1st Daughter?

Since the beginning of our Country, on January 20, after the Inauguration Ceremony, the ball commences... The new Presidents danced with their wives the First Dance Of Their Presidency.

Knowing how much the 1-st Daughter, Ivanka matters to the President Elect, she is likely to replace the 1-st Lady in this ceremonial dance.
The White House is already incorporating the unprecedented changes - Family Office, instead of 1-st Lady Office, etc.  Trump doesn't care about any tradition or a possibility to be accused of NEPOTISM, CRONYISM, and... you name it, what else...

We are about to have a President, who needs to be under the constant watch.  Constant watch of the Congress (to prevent the likely conflicts of interest), constant watch of CIA (to anticipate and possibly prevent the damaging to the interests of the USA, stupid presidential behavior), constant watch of the fact-checkers (to catch half-baked truths, bragging, and other not-presidential statements, coming from the Office of the President). etc.

In the last couple of years of the President Obama term, I kept rather quiet.  Not everything has been to my liking, not everything was in the right direction...  But now, I expect that this blog will be quite busy, dealing with reality of the Trump Presidency.

I am sharpening my pen...

ONE LINER 0015 - Putin's friend?

The US Congress at the beginning of the 2017, a few days before the inauguration of the President Donald J Trump (alas…), on both sides of the isle, is quite unanimous on Russia being the ‘menace of the world’, and having mingled in the US 2016 election process, by hacking, releasing one sided evidence to the Wiki Leaks and so on.
Russia suffers some sanctions already, and the new sanctions are in the making.

And yet, the President-Elect have been praising the Russia’s Dictator for his wisdom, and handling of the political challenges.  He has been diminishing (and previously totally dismissing) the role Russia played in hacking, and other attacks on the US, and the other allies’ affairs (hacking the newspapers around the Europe etc.).

We all know these facts, and, frankly, I still can’t believe that such a person could have been elected President of the USA.
After so much denying the merit of the findings of the CIA and other agencies about the Russian actions, Trump threatens to remove the sanctions imposed on Russia for their actions against our democracy.
On January 14 in the interview for The Wall Street Journal Trump had audacity to utter such a statement:
“If you get along and if Russia is really helping us, why would anybody have sanctions if somebody's doing some really great things?”(1*).

Yes, we have to admit, that Russia is a force, which does some stabilizing action in the Middle East.  Yet, it’s not by humanitarian means, but indiscriminating ‘extermination’ of the civilian population in Syria, helping the tyrant like Basher Assad, who otherwise would be deposed by his ‘subjects’.  Recently Russia teamed up with another ‘going-dictatorial’ force in the region - Turkey, which instead of fighting the ISIS (or I should say ‘beside’), uses this   opportunity to decimate their Kurdish opposition.

Proving by his actions in Syria, in the recent months, that he was a War Criminal, Putin is probably the last person on the planet who could have been called:”…somebody's doing some really great things”.  Even if he is an ‘ally’ in the fight with ISIS, no one can overlook his absolutely illegal (and condemned by the whole civilized world) annexation of the Crimea, and an attempt to steal at least part of the Ukraine.  Let’s not forget the situation in Georgia and a fear which he rises in all Baltic States, who gained the sovereignty from the USSR in a peaceful (mostly) process, and do not want to fall under the New, Revived Russian Empire.

Unfortunately, the United States have had in the past some politicians, who disregarded the obvious aggression against the neighboring countries, and wanted to talk and negotiate with the tyrant… I am talking about Joseph P. Kennedy Sr - the father of so beloved President John F Kennedy, who rejected the warnings of the prominent Member of Parliament Winston Churchill that any compromise with Nazi Germany was impossible. Instead, Kennedy supported Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's apparent policy of appeasement. Throughout 1938, while the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany and Austria intensified, Kennedy attempted to arrange a meeting with Adolf Hitler.[39] Shortly before the Nazi aerial bombing of British cities began in September 1940, Kennedy once again sought a personal meeting with Hitler, again without the approval of the Department of State, "to bring about a better understanding between the United States and Germany”.(*2)

Let’s think for a moment how misguided this lack of judgement on part of Kennedy was…

President Elect Donald J Trump is doing the same, stupid mistake diminishing the danger, which is associated with letting Putin do what he wants.

I only hope that being surrounded by the people (who he hand picked himself), who are more realistic about Russia and the thread it constitutes, will influence the change in his thinking direction.

If not… God, save us all.


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1* - http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/13/politics/donald-trump-russia-sanctions-taiwan/
2* - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Sr.