Friday, June 12, 2020

A full page add in the New York Times

From June 10, 2020, paid for, apparently, by Tom Blair, the author of "What Would Ben Say?"

 Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.  — Mark Twain

 1. The president must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
     — President Herbert Hoover.

 2. Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
     — President Ronald Reagan

 3. One cool judgment is worth a thousand counsels. The thing to do is supply light and not heat.
     — President Woodrow Wilson

 4. BS narrative that those are mostly peaceful protestors. Mainstream media will do anything to protect Democrats and defend lawlessness. When the looting starts, the shooting starts.
     — President Donald Trump

 5. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
     — President Harry S. Truman

 6. Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough. — President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

 7. I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men...in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessors.
     — President Martin Van Buren

 8. I would give myself and A+ as President. Can I go higher than that? — President Donald Trump

 9. This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in if it is not a reasonably good place for all of us to live in.
     — President Theodore Roosevelt

 10. We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
     — President Jimmy Carter

 11. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. 
    — President John Adams

 12. It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. 
    — President Herbert Hoover

 13. Fake news is the true enemy of the people.
     — President Donald Trump

14. I think the first duty of society is justice.
     — Alexander Hamilton

 15. How can we love our country, and not also love our countrymen. —President Ronald Reagan

 16. What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise.
     — Congresswoman Barbara Jordan

 17. You may give a man an Office, but you cannot give him Discretion. — Benjamin Franklin

18. I've always felt he got away with murder. Why did he leave Congress so quickly. Isn't it obvious?
     — President Donald J. Trump

19. The test of progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little.
     — President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

20. No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. —President Rutherford B. Hayes

21. Ivanka created 14 million jobs. — President Donald J. Trump

22. Leave the matter of religion to the family alter, the church and the private school. Keep the church and the state forever separate.  
    — President Ulysses S. Grant

23. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. — President Dwight D. Eisenhower

 24. There is nothing new in the world except the history you do no know. — President Harry S. Truman

 25. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
     — President Thomas Jefferson

 26. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. — Albert Einstein

 27. More people attended my inauguration than any other President's. Anyone who wants a test can get one.
     — President Donald J. Trump

28. No person was ever honored for what he earned. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. — President Calvin Coolidge

29. He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. — Benjamin Franklin

30. I look forward to showing my financials because they are huge.
    — President Donald J. Trump

31. People who boast about their I.Q are losers. —Steven Hawking

32. I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
     — President Woodrow Wilson.

33. Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q is one of the highest. Please don't feel so stupid or insecure. It's not your fault.
     — President Donald J. Trump

34. Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
     — President George Washington

35. I always wanted a Purple Heart...McCain a hero? I like people who weren't captured. I couldn't serve because of a bone spur.
    — President Donald J. Trump

36. A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. — President James A. Garfield

The people are the rightful masters of both congress, and courts—not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.  — Abraham Lincoln
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2 comments:

  1. johnboyJune 12, 2020 at 7:50 PM

    Edward,

    For the record, I'm Australian living in Australia so am watching US politics "from a distance". IMO Trump certainly gives plenty of cause for criticism, particularly because (it seems to me) he has a personality type that has kind of side-swiped the US political scene. However, I also find (particularly when I research what he *actually* says and does vs what most of the media portrays) that he actually is routinely misrepresented.

    I have a podcast recommendation for you that is slightly related to your apparent disgust for Trump. In it the (IMO brilliant intellect of) Eric Weinstein is interviewed. The conversation is, IMO, thoroughly interesting and wide ranging. The subject turns briefly to Trump and I found Eric's viewpoints on the subject to be enlightening, particularly as Eric is very much left-of-centre. Perhaps you will also.

    Here's the link:
    https://josephnoelwalker.com/78-the-intellectual-wild-south-is-open-for-business-eric-weinstein/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=78-the-intellectual-wild-south-is-open-for-business-eric-weinstein

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  2. Edward K ReamJune 13, 2020 at 6:52 AM

    For the record:

    1. My "disgust" is real.
    2. About the only thing I agree with Trump about is the failure of our unending wars.
    3. Imo, that point of agreement is not even remotely good enough reason ever to vote for this viscous, stupid, racist excuse for a human being. It was always clear who he was.
    4. The most obvious reason why any billionaire would support Trump is that they stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars thereby.

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