YOU'VE GOT TO BE JOKING, USA!!

Absolutely, I would be very disappointed to think I had offended either redstar or redwing, and if, by chance, at any time I have then I apologise.

I agree, redstar, but surely it's a blindingly obvious that Obama was and has been in an impossible position because of the fact that a Democrat President has his hands tied due to the fact that Congress and the Senate have been controlled totally by the Republicans during both of his terms. That would be, here in the UK, like having a, say, Conservative Prime Minister with the House of Commons having all Labour Mp's and the same situation in the House of Lords. Everything he has tried to do for the good of the USA has been stymied and impeded by the Republicans........I just don't understand how the American on the street didn't actually see that. You can't elect a Leader and then have his every move blocked by a rival party and then blame the Leader.......it just doesn't make sense. I couldn't care less if it had been a Republican President locked out of authority by a Democratic controlled House and Senate.............it's a completely illogical and insane situation.

I think it's this fixation on HC's e-mails that has everyone scratching their heads. Firstly, there appears, according to the FBI, no security risks but she has been reprimanded for carelessness. Secondiy, as I've pointed out before, if you really wanted a reality check and turned over the "stones" in both Political Parties you would find Congressmen and Senators, and staff, on both sides guilty of the same carelessness but probably of higher security breaches..........and we haven't even mentioned the permanent Federal Government Staff, Secret Service, CIA, FBI, Military and "Uncle Tom Cobley and all". The only reason the friends of the USA abroad can see for the fixation on HC is as a diversion from recognising the complete unsuitability of Trump to lead a great Nation, and a kind of revenge while ignoring the fact that it was the Republicans who have stopped any progress that might have been made because the President had the effrontery to be a Democrat, and a case of choosing a dog out of two that both bite your hand because the one you chose barks the loudest......you're still gonna get your hand bit. So as a friend who lives in Ohio said to me when he came to the UK sometime back and I was complaining about things.............he looked me in the eye, took a gulp of my Whisky, grinned and said "Get over it!!"

 

I think you are forgetting the fact that he doesn't even have to take that ONE dollar, redstar, as he's taken enough hundreds of millions of dollars via his repeated tax evasion. Let's be realistic, Trump is proposing a Mussolini style One Trillion Dollar infrastructure plan that will also throw the USA into even more debt and I'm absolutely sure that none of his business "interests" will benefit.

 

Have you forgotten of the cases of the deliberately started wars in Ukraine, the missiles supplied by Putin to the Russian supported rebels and the shooting down of Malaysia flight MH17 killing 283 passengers of which 80 were children, clueless. The unfired missiles were then taken back into Russia, to take and divert the focus of the West from his military annexation of the Crimea Russia, under Putin, is in a expansionist mood and, if you look back over time, isn't noted for it's freedom of liberty and speech politics.

 

But isn't it an insane system where a country elects a President to do a job and yet a rival political party can block his every move, Lori.

I would regard it as "bashing" if what has been said about Trump was untrue but, to be honest, all that has happened is consistency in what has been said. I can't see the point of pointing out the dangers of a situation and then later, because you've had to repeat and underline it all, that we should sigh, shrug our shoulders, and say "Oh, well, maybe things will be okay", when we know in our gut that ain't gonna be so.

 

I somehow think you've somehow forgotten that it was President Viktor Yanukovych who was pro Russian not his parliament. There was a parliamentary vote to shift many of his Presidential powers back to Parliament which was basically the equivalent of the UK Parliament asking for a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister, and the Military abandoned him, and he ran over the border to Russia. Every move after that was the Russians arming Rebels, supplying troops by invading into Ukraine, and supplying SAM missiles to shoot down a civilian plane killing those 283 people I mentioned earlier. As I said the support to the pro Russian opposition was done so to take the political heat of Putin's invasion of the Crimea.