Originally Posted by
Lowslung
Just an observation my friend. I understand there are many reasons for many Americans to like the direction the current admin is going. While I don’t share too many of those reasons, I’d like to think that any objective observer could agree that caution and measure are not strengths generally shared by the current CINC and the people he’s surrounded himself with. Happy to entertain any counter argument you may have with that thought.
I think that I might agree with that latter opinion. Although I have to wonder if it is innate to his personality or a function of how many people, even in his own party and the Washington establishment, tried to stab him in the back during his first term. The near miss in the public assassination couldn’t have helped either.
It’s a tough job under the best of circumstances. And corporate Washington DC never has liked outsiders. It chewed up Jimmy Carter.