Former President Barack Obama.
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There's the thing Hillary Clinton never mastered, the authentic smile.
Zen Yogi: it wasn't any more real in Obama than it was in any other politician!
Sure but he was better at it in the same as were Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan. None of them were particularly good for anything but all of them were exceptional snake charmers.
Zen Yogi: but who needs charmed snakes?
All or most of them did but you see what came from it ... twenty trillion in national debt.
Zen Yogi: that wasn't all Obama's fault since Bush added trillions to the debt as well but the view is so myopic and polarized from a great many in the electorate that they see only one bad guy out of that lot so they ignore every second set of administrations.
Without all the snake charming, the headline wouldn't even exist. (Scientific American: Trump Order Resurfaces Debate about “Militarizing” Police)
In fact, Obama was militarizing cops in the same way as Trump and with the same legislative backing. It wasn't until the Ferguson stand-off with police that Obama canceled the program but there was only a year or two left of his Presidency at that time. Telling that story isn't anywhere near as melodramatic as the one they could otherwise us so, what do you know, they went with the melodrama. Many will only skim the headlines and this one leaves the impression Trump is the Satan and Obama is the Goodness. It wasn't true.
Was it that easy to forget how Obama destroyed OWS on a national scale.
Right after Obama started cashing in on his Clintoneseque big money post-administration tour on Wall Street, Phil Murphy decided, sure, what better support could there be for a Democrat's campaign now for Governor. Consequently, Murphy wins today's Genius in Politics award. (Observer: Obama May Campaign With NJ Gubernatorial Candidate Murphy)
Zen Yogi: Murphy is just another millionaire rich bitch and playing that Obama style means he won't raise the taxes to pay the freight any faster than Trump since Obama never did either.
All of them make the same duplicitous pitch regarding their sensibilities toward containing costs ... but every damn one of them makes the same change later in that position to include pushing upward the national debt limit. We saw that with Obama and we have just seen it again with Trump so let those greenbacks flow.
Zen Yogi: is this just another pitch that mainstream Democrats and Republicans are largely the same?
Nah. It's true but it gets much better than that.
There's the ongoing campaign of bitter hopelessness in Hillary Clinton which has been so insufferable ever since the election. She campaigned with a great deal of support from Obama and that support sure did wonders for her success. That situation did an Olympic back flip after the election since Clinton now blames Obama as well for her failure. (CNN: Hillary Clinton's blockbuster pledge is toothless)
Zen Yogi: Anderson Cooper was one of Clinton's staunchest defenders and long after that was any logical reason for it. That he now has little regard for her gives the sublime portrait of the damage she has done to what little remained of her reputation after the election.
And there we get to Clinton's prime vulnerability, this obtuse confusion of herself and her country. She repeats it in direct answer to the question: "But I think they go hand in hand"-- that is, her fate and the fate of the USA.
It's like a lesson in early childhood that won't get dislodged. What happens to her is always representative of something much bigger.
When Donald Trump hounded her in the second debate, she says, "he was Exhibit A of the remaining problems we have in making sure that women are not treated unfairly and with disrespect."
- CNN
One of Clinton's largest failings was in her exploitation of the women's movement since Trump lacked any semblance of the grace of previous candidates but he still said essentially the same things any sleaze bucket politician always says in confrontational situations. That had little to do with feminism and a whole lot to do with the low standards of a vile profession.
When Trump started throwing all these bollocks about his whanger, Clinton jumped right into it and started spewing more trashy bilge water of her own devising to attempt to counter him. Trump outfoxed her politically since he had high confidence his supporters would willingly suffer that kind of crude behavior as reasonable and necessary. Clinton walked right into it to, in effect, mimic him and her supporters were not so willing to suffer the same indignation.
Zen Yogi: are we going to try her today ... again?
Noooo, Yogi, but the failing in this one was massive. How it stacks in destructiveness relative to all her other mistakes doesn't matter anymore.
In another example of playing Clinton in just the same way is in the potential for catastrophic loss of possibly a global consequence came about through Democratic Party 'weakness' in general and Clinton's in particular. (Fox News: Trump hits back at 'Crooked Hillary,' blames her for North Korea's nuclear progress)
That leaves Clinton with nothing sensible to say since she made a huge deal out of her Presidential readiness, experience, and toughness. In that context, anything she says today about Trump becomes all the more ludicrous since she made a caricature of herself.
In any case, Hillary Clinton didn't go to NK and, instead, dispatched her husband to do it so that kind of blaming can go on endlessly. Note: it is NOT a blame game when millions of people may die as a consequence.
In another example of playing Clinton in just the same way, we have the potential for catastrophic loss with a global consequence so this Trump says came about through Democratic Party 'weakness' in general and Clinton's in particular. (RT: Trump: US may have no choice but to ‘totally destroy’ North Korea)
Every word in this mockery of discourse continues in one specious volley after the other of sordid smokse which distract from any truth in either one of them. Trump created the artificial situation of no choice and Clinton likely had almost nothing to do with it.
The basis is in the gem below for the thinking Trump deliberately blows smoke at Clinton ... because he knows it works.
Here's one from L.A. about Trump's talks with China and note the date of the article with September 6 but it's still germane since there's no reason to believe his style of play has changed since then. (L.A. Times: Trump talks to China's Xi about North Korea)
Trump, who has sought for months to convince China to do more to restrain Pyongyang from testing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, suggested that Xi had become more supportive.
“I believe that President Xi agrees with me 100%," Trump told reporters after the 45-minute conversation. "He doesn’t want to see what’s happening there either."
"We had a very, very frank and very strong phone call,” Trump added, "President Xi would like to do something."
Asked if he was considering military action, the president offered a cautious response, saying "Certainly that's not our first choice."
"But," he said several times, "we will see what happens."
- Times
The last line was just his fanfare to close as the body of that discussion was quite a bit more useful.
Amazingly, the Twitter Troller Trump to which Clinton typically responds has, for quite some time, been a smokescreen he uses to play to the crowd as in Hillary Clinton and also Fox News but in a different way. The talks show he is a far better juggler than Twitter sees him to be and it's questionable whether the idea of any background wisdom can bring a solution which doesn't involve dead people but the fact the conversation exists does give at least some hope of that.
Zen Yogi: why should you care when you won't even be in it, mate?
No-one wants to think it was all for nothing. The Hope was ever that we may finally reach the point of true civilization through disarmament and an end to the constant warring. That Hope was been haunting me every minute of my life since hardly any of it was spent without nukes hanging over my head. That I may not see it is all part of Dreaming Big since sometimes that's the consequence in that it won't happen. That consequence is vastly better for my set than would be the alternative of looking back but having done nothing about it in all that time. Dreaming Big in that way was not pointless hopelessness even when it didn't happen for me ... BUT ... it still might with YOU. Perhaps from seeing this it may give you more reason to consider disarmament and that's the gooey-eye goodness for me.
Zen Yogi: The Theory of Propagated Goodness?
That's the one, Yogi.
Zen Yogi: is this religious?
Nope although your choices, depending on the types of faiths you hold, may become that way in terms of looking for guidance for the right answer.
Zen Yogi: you just made it religious!
In fact, I didn't, mate, since your personal faith may mean seeking such an answer is necessary in that way. For my view, the seeking comes in a different way and mostly by observation. From that, as Barbie liked to say, 'studying the species,' the view comes that we're better than the Twitter dancers and inside we want the same thing regardless of any personal benefit. It's not religious; it's just the Silas view of the right thing to do and that same view tells me there are many of us.
Note: Barbie was not an Anthropologist and had no obvious book evidence of interest in the field but it was still the same thing that we can learn the most about ourselves by watching.
Zen Yogi: so Anthropology is the religion then ... nyuk, nyuk, nyuk
That one didn't get me spitting up my coffee, Yogi ... but I do see some comedy to it.
Zen Yogi: as in where else would it be?
Have a ball playing the line but I'm about ready for ...
Zen Yogi: a nap?
That's the answer, mate.
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