[Mr Quatro]

Found this note of a post I saved last year from the long gone Presidential thread we had before this one. Don't cheat and scroll to the bottom to see who it was, but it was from his heart.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can neither do nor teach are leftist comedians.

Why should they be the goto source of wisdom in defending a position? That fact alone screams lack of validity for a hyperbolic position.

You have to redefine the meaning of the word to call Trump hypocritical. His weakness is that he is too honest, that he fails to filter out positions that might offend some, that he speaks his mind regardless of the consequences. Of course that got a lot of help when "some of the immigrants are criminals who must be expelled" became "all Mexican immigrants are criminals" in the press, shame on the "objective" (another word that has been redefined) press.

Hypocrisy is being head of the State department, sending memos to your people telling them now to handle e-mail in a secure manner and in a way that preserves historical records, but violating those guidelines for yourself, ensuring that the enemies of the US have access to the country's most sensitive top secret and above information. Hypocrisy is denying that you had more than one cell phone when you had at least 10 different ones, denying that any top secret e-mails went on your server when many did, denying that any wrongdoing was done and that at most an inconsequential mistake was made.

Hypocrisy is claiming to work for women's rights when the 1990's was spent destroying women who claimed sexual relations with her "husband" in direct opposition to her "women don't lie. They have the right to be believed" nonsense. Hypocrisy is paying your women 70% of what the men working in the campaign are paid and claiming to stand for equal pay for equal work. Hypocrisy is handing out crumbs to the residents of our inner cities for their votes while doing not one thing to bring them true opportunity and bring them out of their economic plight. Hypocrisy is blaming the deficit on the top 1% of taxpayers not paying their share when they already pay over half of federal revenues. Hypocrisy is a plan to increase corporate taxes on companies who are already paying the highest corporate taxes in the world, effectively paying them to leave our country and relocate to one with lower expenses.

Finally, hypocrisy is taking a tens of millions of dollars from the same countries that finance ISIS, the same countries where women can't vote, can't leave the house without escort, are not allowed to get an education, cannot drive a car and are strictly treated as property: toys to be taken out of the closet to play with and when you're done they go back in the closet. 90% of that 70 to 100 million dollars went to the Clintons. The other 10% went to the purposes of the Clinton Foundation.

That's the short list. You do not have to redefine the term to attach "hypocrisy" to its correct owner here.

Oh, hypocrisy is stiffing your supporters on the night of your predictable loss of the presidency, for selfish reasons not thanking them for their support, sending the message that this defeat is final, that an unspeakable wrong has been committed, that THIS defeat is final and that somehow her supporters, as evidenced by her absence, are to blame, in her mind. It was a horrible act of selfish hypocrisy. Being better than Hillary, they still came back and cheered her the next day.

Hillary has had plenty of object lessons that the universe is not all about her, but has steadfastly rejected each opportunity to become a better person and take responsibility for her own shortcomings, which all, thankfully, cost her the Presidency.

I'm not saying Trump will fare any better or be a great President. He's a bit of a crapshoot. But if he fails, it will be because of his forthrightness, not because of his parsing and redefining of formerly well-understood and shared values and terms. He's not a professional politician. That is both his primary strength and his greatest weakness.
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