Fall is here, and what have we learned? Well, we’ve learned that ...
Donald Trump can’t run a presidential campaign without ruining it with racist and sexist bile.
Donald Trump can’t run a charitable foundation without breaking a fistful of laws.
Donald Trump can’t run a business without blowing almost a billion dollars.
What was it Donald Trump was wanting to run again? Something simple? Something where if he ruins it, breaks it, blows it nobody will mind? Hmm?
Leonard Pitts wonders if politicians are testing the "better to keep your mouth closed" theory.
I was willing to let Aleppo go.
As with Barack Obama’s “57 states” and Rick Perry’s infamous “oops,” I was willing to write off Gary Johnson’s recent gaffe — his inability to identify the rebel stronghold in Syria — as just one of those brain cramps even well-informed people occasionally suffer, especially under the klieg lights of media attention. Then Johnson, the Libertarian candidate for president, went and did it again.
Asked last week by Chris Matthews of MSNBC to name his favorite foreign leader, Johnson could come up with not one. “I guess I’m having an Aleppo moment,” he confessed.
There’s a lot of that going around. And it raises a question: since when is knowing things no longer a prerequisite to running for president?
Knowledge is elitist. Besides, Gary Johnson just happens to be a very nice guy who wants both colleges and loan companies to maximize their profits while eliminated the Department of Education—just like millennials want. Bad news: You can’t afford to go to college. Good news: You can still run for president.
… it’s hard to overstate the gall of a Gary Johnson. But the fact that such uninformed — even broadly ignorant — people capture attention and votes and that one of them may even be our next president, also offers a vivid illustration of the unserious nation we have become.
We’ve been here before. Anyone who watched the Carter—Reagan debates saw one smart, prepared and knowledgeable candidate and one who had spent four decades perfecting his avuncular chuckle. We saw how that turned out and we paid for it. We’re still paying for it.
And now, words of wisdom from our own Pastor Dan.
Thank you, preacher. Now, let us go inside and hear the Gospel According to Punditry…
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