01-23-2017, 02:09 PM
(01-23-2017, 12:01 PM)Fan_in_Kettering Wrote: 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.
Consensus seems to be his address sucked, but maybe that is just the whining of a scorned meda?
Like I said, I thought it had its strengths, and they point to what you said about citizen legislators and healing wounds. I hope you are correct about those things.
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
