The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The Republican Party’s leading candidate for President of the United States is currently an admitted briber, a birther, a bully and a bigot who espouses the policies of Adolph Hitler while preaching patriotism, even as he acts out a scenario of yellow
So the terrorists invaded Paris and others have now invaded Mali and have given the intellectually bankrupt GOP an excuse to start shouting about Obama’s strategy or lack thereof in the fight against ISIS. It also gave the cowardly Republican governors, mainly
So we had another debate, this time Republican, and this time divided to four at the kiddie table and eight at the big one. It was the best GOP debate so far, closer to a debate than a shouting match, but still
The GOP debates were a complete mess, starting with the fact that they weren’t debates How could they possibly be debates with more people on stage than in the audience? A debate is where a moderator asks a question of someone
The Republicans can’t seem to get it right. They invited Ben Netanyahu to speak before congress and loved his speech but it caused so much trouble it really wasn’t worth it. Next they invited the Pope and then realized that almost everything
For eleven hours on October 22, 2015, former, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sat before a committee of mostly Republicans, whose only goal was trying to make her look bad before the nation. This was simply because she had the temerity
There are really only two big questions to be answered by the candidates in the 2016 election. The first is how do we get the rest of the country back to work and the second is how do we get
Wow! Who’d a thought it? Just when the GOP was getting some traction in their phony attacks on Hillary Clinton for Benghazi and emails, the clown who was maneuvering for the third most important job in the country, brags, in
The violence in Oregon has generated all the expected noise and all of it is about the wrong solution. Everyone wants to blame the whole problem on crazy people because that’s easy. They all speak about background checks as if that
Barak Obama already has a lot to be proud of as President of this nation. He has made a lot of significant moves including but not limited to pulling us out of a depression, changing our foreign policy from attack to negotiation,