The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
Everybody’s marveling over how the two leading candidates have such low approval ratings; Hillary at -53% and Trump at -73% but that’s nothin’. This campaign is just getting to the dirty part and neither Hillary nor the Donald is going to walk
The touchstone of Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her stated reason for the presidential run is the fiscal regeneration of the American peole. So what else is new? Every politician and his brother is currently making the same statement. At least half of
Trump, the ultimate outsider, has hired Paul Manafort; the ultimate insider to run his campaign. Manafort claims that Trump has run away from the field because he has distanced himself from those who messed up the system. Okay, so where does
Party over country, or country over party. That is the question and in this case the answer will reveal who are the real patriots and who are the phony flag wavers, more interested in their own goals than those of the
Listened to Reince Priebus try to doubletalk his way through a discussion of the primary voting process now going on with the GOP. He just isn’t up to it. Maybe no one is. The problem is that none of the party
The full text of the Trans Pacific Partnership has finally been released. Of course the obvious fact that has been revealed is that much of what its critics were attacking before they read it, isn’t really in it, or true at
I don’t know if any of my readers realize it but part of the research that goes into this blog is searching right wing and conservative sites for their input into what they see happening in this country and the world.
The big battle in the Democratic Party right now seems to stem from how much Hillary took from Wall Street for her speeches, how much she got in a Pac from financial sources and her responsibility for the 1994 Crime Bill.
Watched Ted Cruz address a crowd of potential voters in Pennsylvania. It was truly amazing. Trump is right for a change. Cruz speech was an accumulation of lies, half-truths, slander and more lies. I have probably never seen a more dishonest
With all the bombast and lying that has been flowing out from both parties, it’s no wonder that the public is completely confused about what’s, what and who’s, who. Both side of the aisle have been very vocal about the problems