Inaugural Address

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(01-23-2017, 10:50 AM)xxlt Wrote: I wasn't to surprised when the NY Times and George Will panned the Trump inaugural address. Politics makes strange bed fellows.

But I read it yesterday, and I listened to it today, and honestly I didn't think it was that horrible.

I thought it seemed like a speech he may have written himself - very simple words and sentence structure, and at least in terms of verbal IQ I don't think Trump is a very smart person. But, he may have other intelligence strengths. After all there are many ways to be smart.

And, while some of the language seemed inappropriate and out of touch - word choices such as "carnage" come to mind - some of it was pretty good, like the passage about all soldiers regardless of skin color bleeding the same red blood.

What did you think of Trump's inaugural address?

Do you think he has any potential to govern effectively?

Every president gives a good inaugural address. Very few can actually do the job well.

Specifically to Donald Trump's potential, I'm optimistic but for a reason you might not anticipate: He's not a career politician. Earlier in my career I spent lots of time in Washington DC and I developed a loathing of politicians, especially the long-term established ones. I'm sorry, but no career politician of any party is going to upset the apple cart. It's too comfortable for them. Also, the Constitution wasn't written with career politicians in mind but rather the citizen-legislator.

It's going to hurt when President Trump rips some band-aids off some national wounds but in the healing we will grow stronger. We staged an intervention on November 8.