Stronger Together…
I have been struggling to figure out just what to say in my 500 words about Day 4 of the DNC convention. I think it comes down to that day’s theme “Stronger Together”. The other is that it put a face on Hillary that simply was not there before.
Twenty years ago I wrote a book called It Takes a Village. A lot of people looked at the title and asked, what the heck do you mean by that? This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community, or lift a country totally alone. America needs every one of us to lend our energy, our talents, our ambition to making our nation better and stronger. I believe that with all my heart. That’s why “Stronger Together” is not just a lesson from our history. It’s not just a slogan for our campaign. It’s a guiding principle for the country we’ve always been and the future we’re going to build. [Clinton]…
And more than ever before, Democrats translated that diversity into a story about America. Who would have thought that it would be the Democratic convention, not the Republican one, that was saturated in patriotism? And not the apologetic patriotism so many of us got used to hearing from them in the last couple of decades, the kind that says, “Hey, we love our country, too! Really!”
Source: Hillary Clinton finally found the message she was looking for
I think the words above say it pretty clearly. While the Republican candidate says that America is going down in flames and only he can save, the Democrats are celebrating our country’s strength and saying together we can fix the problems we have.
Me vs Us!!! A BIG BIG DIFFERENCE TO ME..
Personally I now have a better understanding of Hillary’s lifelong commitment to children and families. I have always known that she is a tough politician but her soft side was also new to me. I liked her comment about how she has been all about “public service”, service all the way, public not as much. She is a guarded person but with all the arrows thrown at her over the years by the GOP it is amazing to me that she is still on the world stage. A lessor woman, or man, would have faded from the limelight.
The difference between last week’s convention and this one is night/day. The choice has never been clearer. Perhaps the largest crowd of people ranting about how the CEOs have gotten 90% of the gains since the 2008 meltdown while the working guy/gal got a pittance of that are the very people wanting to put one of the One-Percenters in the White House. That totally makes no sense to me!!! I have sympathy for the uneducated white guy. He has not gotten a break in years. I just pray that there are more of us who want to solve our current problems without taking the country down in flames in the process…
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So many in the “perpetual utterance” crowd look into the past and dream that America will once again be what it was. They look at life from a “white supremacy” point of view. They simply don’t see our blemishes. Recognizing our faults and apologizing for them is the first step in reconciliation and true peace. But whenever a leader tries to do that he is quickly admonished. Here is a little about that:
Day 3 at the Democratic convention was an “about time” moment when Democrats showed us just how unstable and reckless person Trump is. A lot of it came from the mouths of leaders in the Republican party. First off I want to give you a crowd shot from last night. Can you see the difference between it and the ones I gave you of the Republican convention?🙂 If the GOP is going to try and salvage their party from its present condition it is going to take more than old white men like me. Diversity is the crown jewell of our nation and its about time the GOP got on board with that crucial fact. If they don’t do it now I am afraid they never will…
If you know me you are probably puzzled about the title of this post. For the most part I believe that the “good old days” just weren’t that good, but there are a few exceptions.
241 years ago we were part of the Great British Empire. We were loyal, although complaining, citizens. Then we chose to go our own way and eventually after a four year rebellion got our way. We still have common bonds with GB but we are also markedly different. One of the major differences is that we are a nation of immigrants and Great Britain is a nation embedded in aristocracy.
As my friend Tony Campolo likes to say, “Mixing Christianity up with a political party is like trying to mix ice-cream with horse manure. It doesn’t do much damage to the manure, but it sure messes up the ice-cream.”
s are pouring over our borders like never before! We don’t make anything! We never win anymore! The whole world is laughing at us!…
But then Lucifer messed with the program. Inexplicably, a charged-up Dr. Ben Carson, a vanquished Trump rival with a narrow range of vision, was given prime time real estate to pull out phrases that meant something only to a slab of the Republican base. He abandoned his prepared remarks. He implied that Hillary Clinton was in a league with the devil. Her hero, he said, was Saul Alinsky, dropping the name of an obscure socialist labor organizer as if he were Bono….
I have faith that hate is not the primary agenda for the mass who usually vote Republican. Yes, they have conservative principles that I might disagree with, some even strongly, but I am convinced that they are loving people who see hate as a vitriol destruction of their valued principles rather than a politically winning strategy. Most of them do NOT put their party above their principles.
“This country is a thousand times bigger than any two men in it, or any two parties in it. These big politicians are so serious about themselves and their parties.
rol and the only thing that can save us is the wisdom and firm hand of a man who, when asked whom he consults for advice on foreign policy, says, “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things.” This man may not know what the nuclear triad is, but he did bring the world Trump Steaks. I feel safer already.
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I have been dreaming about my April Disney World trip lately. One of the most spectacular shows was “Lion King”. With this post I am giving you a flavor of it. It is a massive production and well worth one of your “magic passes” if you ever go there.
ink he really wanted to make one of his kid’s VP but couldn’t decide which one. I don’t know what Mr. Trump had in mind with this pick but I sure am glad to hear that Pence won’t be governor of Indiana come next year.
“Every person here who is of a Muslim background” should be tested to determine whether he or she believes in Shariah, a legal code based on the Quran and other Islamic scriptures.Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich introduces Donald Trump during a rally at the Sharonville Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 6. Getty Images
Like the Bible, the writings of the nation’s Founding Fathers can be cherry-picked to lend credence to otherwise specious arguments. While some of the founders saw value in religious (albeit Christian) practice, the main thrust of the First Amendment of the Constitution is actually freedom from religion. Surely, the Constitution writers remembered that many of their ancestors came to these shores to escape the prosecution brought on by that dark side of all religion: its inability to tolerate disagreement.
