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In Defense of Trump

In Defense of Trump

http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=13440
I am a Trump supporter. Inspired by my posting this on my Facebook page, a friend sent me this message.  I decided to answer in depth on this blog. 

"I was stunned to see your post today! Donald Trump is an evil, inexperienced, hateful man. How could you support one who supports keeping all Mexicans out of our country? Mexicans are kind, hardworking and honest. I have known so many as a person who lived in Texas for 30 years. He is proposing keeping all Muslims out of our country. My most competent, caring doctors have been Muslims. He is disrespectful of women. Look at his personal life. He has no foreign affairs knowledge other than business related. You say you are impressed with his heart. How does that match up with his mockery of a disabled man. I, for one, will be voting for the only experienced, qualified candidate."
 Accusation  Answer  1. Trump is evil.  You know him personally? Jerry Falwell, Jr. vouches for his character citing many instances of individual generosity that don't make it to the donations column for tax exemption. I would be reluctant about accusing someone of being evil on what little I know of him personally. (Perhaps you know more about him.)  
I have known too many Bible thumping preachers that talk the talk but consider themselves above having to walk the walk to make Christian claims the criteria for my political support. I am voting for a president, not a preacher.   2. Trump is inexperienced.  Trump has the experience needed for making better trade deals for our country. Making deals is how he made his own fortune. He has dealt with foreign countries through his own business development and understands the different cultures of business. 
With a degree from the Wharton School of Economics and years of business experience, Trump understands economics, trade, and currency manipulation much better than any of the other candidates. He will not hesitate to say, "You're fired," to the incompetents in government, stifle the graft and corruption in the VA, road and bridge building, government contracts, etc. That is what he does!
He is only inexperienced in the political arena and that is one of his greatest qualification. He hasn't been bought and paid for.   3. He is hateful.  Once again, you know him? Filled with hate? 
The accusation of being a racist came about as the result of a hesitation when asked to repudiate someone the questioner connected with the KKK. His hesitation came as the result of faulty technical equipment. Of course, the establishment media mouthpieces repudiated his repudiation because if fit their agenda and that of their bosses. Looks to me like the hate is coming from an Establishment reluctant to give up their gravy train.   4. He supports keeping all Mexicans out of our country.  That is a misrepresentation of his words. He wants to keep ILLEGAL immigrants out of our country. So you dispute that many illegal immigrants are rapists, murderers, drug dealers? Have you ever heard of the Mexican Mafia? What about El Chappo Guzman who tunneled his way out of a Mexican jail and made his way back and forth across the border to visit with his family in the U. S.. I only hope Trump adds enough technology to the wall to sense activity underground.
Perhaps if we lived in Arizona and had illegals traipsing through our back yards we might appreciate someone supporting the border patrol and enforcing our laws. Even here, in South Alabama and North Florida, we are not immune to the illegal drugs that ravage our young. As a grandmother I feel compelled to try at least through my vote to support someone with the gumption to do something about it!
By the way, Trump supports LEGAL immigration from Mexico. 

5. He is proposing keeping all Muslims out of the country. Several of my doctors are Muslim as well. I have a very good friend who is Muslim. I have great respect for them. Trump's stand on putting a temporary time out on Muslim immigration/visas until we get a handle on vetting the immigrants protects ALL Americans, including those who happen to be Muslim. Muslims have been among those killed in these terrorist activities. Aren't we all foremost Americans and only secondarily a hyphenation of some sort? It is our success with assimilating our immigrant population that has brought us the unity we are so proud of and the success of our immigrant population. That is why it must be controlled.  6. I will be voting for the only qualified man.  Who might that be? I assume you mean on the Republican ticket.
John Kasich voted for NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO giving away American sovereignty and endorsing corporate welfare. We now pay American businesses to relocate to foreign countries. Kasich then took the golden parachute and went to work as a managing director for Lehman Brothers making more than $1Million the year Lehman Brothers went belly up. 
Or do you mean Ted Cruz? Cruz now embraces the Establishment with the fervor of the outcast on the playground who suddenly gets courted by the IN crowd. Chief among the "IN CROWD" is the Bush clan. 
Considering their track record, I have absolutely no faith in them.
Jeb Bush, George Bush Sr., and his son Neil Bush have all been implicated in the Savings and Loan Scandal, which cost American tax payers over $1.4 TRILLION dollars (note that this is about one quarter of our national debt).
Between 1981 and 1989, when George Bush finally announced that there was a Savings and Loan Crisis to the world, the Reagan/Bush administration worked to cover up Savings and Loan problems by reducing the number and depth of examinations required of S&Ls as well as attacking political opponents who were sounding early alarms about the S&L industry.  Industry insiders were aware of significant S&L problems as early 1986 that they felt would require a bailout.  This information was kept from the media until after Bush had won the 1988 elections.
Jeb Bush defaulted on a $4.56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building that Jeb used the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by the regulators at  $500,000, which Bush and his partners paid. The taxpayers had to pay back the remaining 4 million plus dollars.
Neil Bush was the most widely targeted member of the Bush family by the press in the S&L scandal.  Neil became director of Silverado Savings and Loan at the age of 30 in 1985. Neil Bush now heads up Cruz's financial team. 
JEB Bush has endorsed Cruz. JEB would have used his brother's foreign policy advisors and where did they get us? Why did we invade Iraq when those who flew the planes into the World Trade Center on 9/01/01were Saudi Arabian? 
George W. Bush brought us the never-ending war in the Middle East that destabilized the area and empowered ISIS. The economic collapse of 2008 was the result of his policies. You think these folks are helping Cruz because they believe in him. For altruistic reasons?
 7. I almost forgot....He is disrespectful of women.  Personally, I am offended by feminists demanding that they be treated equally and when they are they whine and pull the woman card. If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen. Being a woman should not give you an advantage or an excuse for bad manners. Michelle Fields should be ashamed of herself for filing charges for such a minor event. I admire Donald Trump for not giving in to the pressures of political correctness gone amok.


I respect your right to support whomever you support. That is what is so great about our country. But, I am fed up with the  dismissal of those who support Trump as uneducated backcountry lowlifes. As the result, we see free speech challenged with mob violence financed by the puppet masters who benefit by controlling the politicians. A young person serves a sentence for possession of an ounce of marijuana while the Wall Street bankers who brought America to her knees with their greed were never punished! We see Americans lose their retirement and their healthcare when legislators with their golden parachutes "send those low paying jobs overseas." And we want to vote those with ties to the past back into office/power? 
I agree with Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, a leading voice on trade, immigration and executive powers. He urges Americans to choose their next president carefully because 2016 "is the last chance for the American people to take back control of their government."

Trump and Misogyny?

Misogynist seems to be Trump's enemies' favored word of the week.
Melania Trump says her husband treats women just like he treats men. Does that make him a misogynist or are feminists reaping what they have sown? Feminists protest that they want equality. Then a man treats them with the same blunt treatment with which he would treat a man and the whining begins. How dare he speak thus to a woman?
Feminists proclaim that in order to succeed a woman must do everything a man can do only walking backwards and wearing high heels. But why is she wearing high heels? They are certainly not comfortable. Why does she wear short skirts, false eyelashes and flip her lovely long hair when she wants to be treated like a man?
I suggest she expects to use her femininity and be treated like a lady, using sex appeal plus cultural expectations to elicit expected gentleman's behavior while proclaiming she wants equal treatment.
Hillary attempts to capitalize on her supposed feminist credentials. She proclaims to abused women, “You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed. We’re with you,” Clinton said in the video, which she addressed to “every survivor of sexual assault.”
Juanita Brodderick who claims to have been raped by Bill Clinton says Hillary confronted her and said, ‘I just want you to know how much Bill and I appreciate the things you do for him.’ “And she said, ‘Do you understand? Everything you do.’’’  "What really went through my mind at that time is ‘She knows. She knew. She’s covering it up and she expects me to do the very same thing.’” 
Kathleen Willey states that Hillary ‘wrote the book on terrorizing women.’ Gennifer Flowers, Bill Clinton's 12 year mistress, accused Hillary of being “an enabler that has encouraged him (Bill) to go out and do whatever he does with women.” 

So, perhaps women can be misogynists as well. Perhaps Hillary simply has contempt for women who are so gullible as to vote for a woman simply because of her gender. Equality can and should go both ways.  

Voting for President not Preacher

I have been long concerned about our perceived qualifications for our President in this 2016 election year. We need a leader with strength and ability. We are not voting for a preacher.

1. We need a President who will enforce our laws. That includes defending our borders. Trump realizes that illegal means illegal. Trump was the first to make this an issue.

2. We need a President who will make the very best trade deals for our country and will bring manufacturing back to America.

3. We need a President who will put America first and will invest in the infrastructure of our country. Other wealthy men who became President, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, did so in the past building roads, bridges, a park system, and public buildings that make us all proud. In the process, millions of people were employed. Trump is the only one to mention this.

4. We need a President who looks at the world as it is and not as how we want it to be. Other countries do not have a positive perception of our country though we want to think everyone loves us.  Of the last four Secretaries of State three have been women. While we might want to force our ideas of equality on other cultures, Middle Eastern countries do not have the same respect for women that Western cultures have. One of those Secretaries of State, Hillary Clinton, underestimated the animosity of Libyans against our presence there and cost the lives of an ambassador and three other Americans in addition to the lives of soldiers, sailors and airmen put into harms way.

5. We need a president who realizes it is not America's roll in the world to nation build. Such actions  have produced the current instability in the Middle East. Continuing on with the same actions will merely produce the same results. The Hawks and Neocons in the Republican Party who have ridden the militaristic gravy train sacrificing American men and women in the service to their agenda are now instigating war within the Republican party to deny an honest participant in the election process the right to represent the party.

6. We need a President who will put American workers before Wall Street Bankers and corporations. John Kasich promoted NAFTA, GATT, and the WTO. He took the Golden Parachute and worked with Lehman Brothers making $1.4 the year Lehman went bell up. And then he ran for governor and now runs as president promising to bring jobs in after giving them away.

7. We need an independent man as president, one not bought and paid for by special interests. Cruz and his wife Heidi both worked for George Bush when they met. The establishment, governors, senators, representatives and journalists including Bill Kristol's Weekly Standard, are now flocking to his side. Neil Bush who at 30 led Silverado Bank to become one of the S & L failures costing American taxpayers millions. He is now on Cruz' financial team. Donald Trump is funding his own campaign and is his own man.

8. We need a President who will say "you're fired" to those irrelevant governmental agencies and departments, can bring projects in on time and under budget, can read a bottom line and create a budget that fits our ability and not our aspiration. Trump is the only candidate who has created jobs, hired people and built beautiful projects throughout the world.

9. We need a President who sees ISIS and Muslim extremists as the threat they truly are to our people. We need to arm our soldiers with the best equipment, not that produced to answer a politically correct demand made by a politician with a self-interest. We need to take care of our veterans.

10. We need a President who realizes that the Department of Education is run by political hacks producing a politically correct product and not educated citizens. Common Core was co-opted by those hacks and now works to the detriment of our children Trump realizes that the government that works best is closer to the individual. Schools that work best must be answerable to the parents, not the politicians.

11. We need a President who cares about the people of this country and wants to make health care available and affordable with sensible health care reform.

12. We need a President who knows how to hire competent people who are the best at what they do, not simply reappoint those who got us into this fix. 

That man is Donald Trump.

HR 347 protects candidates with Secret Service at official functions from disrupters

Shouldn’t political candidates protected by the Secret Service be defended from those who violate HR 347? Shouldn't violators be jailed and prosecuted? Why does the press justify their disruptions? Does free speech not apply to those the press presumes to dismiss and deride just those who seek to disrupt? The media does not report the news any longer. Their "analysts" spout their bias and judgmental vituperation with no challenge. 
An ActTo correct and simplify the drafting of section 1752 (relating to restricted buildings or grounds) of title 18, United States Code.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011’’.SEC. 2. RESTRICTED BUILDING OR GROUNDS.Section 1752 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:‘‘§ 1752. Restricted building or grounds‘‘(a) Whoever—
‘‘(1) knowingly enters or remains in any restricted buildingor grounds without lawful authority to do so;
‘‘(2) knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt theorderly conduct of Government business or official functions, engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions;‘‘(3) knowingly, and with the intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, obstructs or impedes ingress or egress to or from any restricted building or grounds; or‘‘(4) knowingly engages in any act of physical violence against any person or property in any restricted building or grounds;or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b).‘‘(b) The punishment for a violation of subsection (a) is—
‘‘(1) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not morethan 10 years, or both, if—
‘‘(A) the person, during and in relation to the offense,uses or carries a deadly or dangerous weapon or firearm; or‘‘(B) the offense results in significant bodily injury as defined by section 2118(e)(3); and
‘‘(2) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not morethan one year, or both, in any other case. ‘‘(c) In this section—
H. R. 347—2‘‘(1) the term ‘restricted buildings or grounds’ means any posted, cordoned off, or otherwise restricted area—‘‘(A) of the White House or its grounds, or the Vice President’s official residence or its grounds;‘‘(B) of a building or grounds where the President or other person protected by the Secret Service is or will be temporarily visiting; or‘‘(C) of a building or grounds so restricted in conjunc- tion with an event designated as a special event of national significance; and
‘‘(2) the term ‘other person protected by the Secret Service’means any person whom the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect under section 3056 of this title or by Presidential memorandum, when such person has not declined such protection.’’.Speaker of the House of Representatives.Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate. 



Fairies and Pirates at the St. Andrew Bay Yacht Club in Panama City

Fairies and Pirates at the St. Andrew Bay Yacht Club in Panama City
I want to share with you one of the cutest birthday parties I have ever seen. Five year old Sabrina Rivard celebrated her fifth birthday with fairies and pirates at the St. Andrew Bay Yacht Club recently. Provided with tutus and wings and invited to make their own fairy crown, little girls joined with prospective pirates provided with swords and eye patches by their hosts. 


Tables and chairs were set up around mushrooms and flowers above which butterflies hovered. Guests were invited to decorate their own fairy house. 




 Sashes of tulle tied to a rope decorated the refreshments table.


Flowers brightened the tables.


And the piece de resistance was the cake created by Tammy McDaniel at Sweet T's Cakes, decorated with Peter Pan figures with Tinker Bell in the place of honor at the top of the cake.


Refreshments included fruit in cups served by pirate girls. 




It was a beautiful day for a party. Made you want to be five again!

Throw the rock and hide the hand

The media mouthpieces of the "stop Trump" campaign have managed to stir the pot and produce the violence in Chicago. Of course, they blamed Trump. "Throw the rock and hide the hand" tactics. By validating those protestors who choose to disrupt rallies where Americans, supporters of a political candidate who gather in a spot where the candidate "paid for that microphone" (quoting Reagan), they have created the venomous environment where Americans will not be safe supporting the candidate of their choice. They, in their arrogance have assumed their judgment superior to that of the people. The media has encouraged those disruptive elements to "take down Trump." 

Accepting an invitation to a privately financed event to rally supporters in order to disrupt is just plain bad manners. 

Go back and read over the media rhetoric. Their rhetoric. And they are proud of it.

The puppet masters continue to pull the strings.  The media blames the victim and supports the lawless. See Pat Buchanan's article, Sea Island Conspiracy at http://buchanan.org/blog/sea-island-c...,

Let me relate two incidents that I thought were quite telling about what's happening in this election. A young Hispanic registering to vote was interviewed and was asked if she had made a decision as to whom to vote for. Her answer, "I am going to listen and find out what they are going to do for me before I make my decision."

Another reporter asked a Democratic candidate's representative objecting toTrump's answer for illegal immigration what his candidate's answer for illegal immigration might be. "We build up manufacturing in Mexico so that their standard of living is such that they don't want to immigrate to the United States." (Outcome based global world view. Bring down the wealthy countries while bringing up the poor. Equalize the standard of living.)

I remember the NAFTA/GATT/WTO arguments of the nineties. I will never forget listening to one representative speaking from Congress saying, "We voted to send the low paying jobs overseas." That representative sold out his constituents and probably now works as a high paid lobbyist in Washington. His loyalty is not to the country or to his constituents. He set out to find out the best offer, "what they can do for me."

That arrogance continues. The power brokers know best. Through NAFTA, GATT, WTO and other trade "deals" our representatives voted the advantage to the wealthy who lobby and contribute to their campaigns. Corporate welfare at its finest. They tell us goods are cheaper, but Nike only got more expensive. As did other goods. The big lie. 

And now they bring out the Hounds of Hell to pontificate from the airwaves, inflating and inventing remarks to appear racist, sexist, xenophobic, blasphemous, or bigoted (or all of the above), stirring animosity and inspiring those looking for an excuse to violence.  

By setting Sanders' revolutionaries against the Trump movement the establishment undermines two faces of the same disaffected population. 

How does an individual, a patriot who puts America above self-interest, paying for his own campaign independent of those power brokers, stand a chance? Who will dare to stand with him?

Boss Kristol

Picture this. Boss Hogg has returned (and now inhabits Bill Kristol's body). He gleefully holds in his hands talking points from the Negative Publicity Company hired by the Republican Establishment. He rears back with his half smoked cigar between his nicotine stained hands to proclaim to the pandering press, "I have it on good authority that there are rumors that Donald J. Trump has at one time in the past watched Dukes of Hazard, possibly during the same time slot as David Duke!"

Donald Trump in confusion with earpiece pressed against his ear and a thought blurb above his head reveals a voluptuous Daisy Duke. "Duke?"
Daisy Duke"Duke?"

Power Brokers Pervert the Process

The Financial Page, "Economic Populism at the Primaries," The New Yorker, February 22, 2016
"A week ago Sunday, one of the two eventual winners of the New Hampshire primaries assailed the power of corporate lobbyists of the U.S. government, labeling them "blood-suckers." He attacked defense contractors for forcing the government to buy missiles it didn't need. He blasted oil companies and insurers. And he vowed to use the bargaining power of the U.S. government to drive down drug prices."
Is it any wonder the power brokers in Washington, their puppets in government and parasites in associated businesses are quaking in their boots? And so they have begun what in the industry is called Negative Advertising. Check out this website: http://www.webcide.com/#!negative-pub... where this agency proudly proclaims:
"Negative public relations, also called dark public relations, is a process of destroying the target's reputation or corporate identity. The objective in Negative Public Relations  is to discredit someone else, who may pose a threat to the client's business or be a political rival. Common techniques include using dirty secrets from the target, producing misleading facts to fool a competitor."

The power of these puppet masters can nowhere be more obvious than with the past few weeks of Marco Rubio's rhetoric. Their command was to take Trump down with insults. The result made Rubio look like a little boy whose mother told him it was okay to use potty words. He reveled in the opportunity but it made him look smaller. It also looked like he had no core principles since he was doing just what he condemned in his competitor. 
I am afraid I must agree with Jeff Sessions: 

 “This election is our last chance to save U.S. sovereignty and to end the domination of the political establishment over the interests of working Americans. Trump alone has rejected the donor class, defending America’s jobs and wages from open borders, uncontrolled immigration and the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership that will cede U.S. authority to foreign powers. Trump’s trade and immigration plans will revitalize our shrinking middle class, keeping jobs and wealth and income inside the United States of America. Trump understands that a nation must always place the interests of its own people first.”
Hopefully, the public will see through these intimidation tactics and will not allow the elitist power brokers, Hawks who haven’t seen a war they didn’t want our young men and women to fight or a trade deal for which they weren’t ready to sell out the American people, to pervert the democratic process.

Broadcast Bullies

Bill Bennett, David Brooks, Mona Charen, Charles C.W. Cooke, Michael Gerson, Jonah Goldberg, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Krauthammer, Matt Lewis, Rich Lowry, Michael Medved, Paul Mirengoff, Dana Perino, John Podhoretz, Karl Rove, Jennifer Rubin, Kevin Williamson, editorial page writers for the Wall Street Journal and others of the Republican elite including Bill Kristol, must have had a cocktail party and decided that they are the cool kids, a gang apart, and Donald Trump and his supporters are not to be their friends. Trump is okay to donate money (like the kid who can do their homework), but heaven help him should he actually presume to dance at their party!
On my former favorite morning show, Mika Brzezinski, a Democrat supporter of Hillary Clinton, high on interviewing those women "who count" who had gathered  for a self-worth hootenanny on Arianna Huffington's bed, postures as a policy maker and judge of public morality. As a Democrat her opposition is a given, but Joe Scarborough must also have imbibed the Washington Kool-Aid.  Scarborough has chosen to preside over the Morning Joe name calling of Trump supporters. (Sinister. Stupid. Idiots. Uneducated. Racist. Imbeciles.) 
Like bullies on the playground these self-anointed guardians of those permitted admittance onto our national political playground have resorted to belittling Donald Trump and his friends. No Southern mother would approve of her child treating another child with such disrespect. The media does to other Americans who believe differently than their politically correct ideology exactly what they accuse Trump of doing. Our children hear this denigrating language on major media every day. So much for objectivity. 
As Pat Buchanan puts it "the establishment has become unhinged" (http://buchanan.org/blog/an-establish...). He writes, "Today the press decides what words are permissible and what thoughts are acceptable. The press conducts the inquisitions where heretics are blacklisted and excommunicated from the company of decent men, while others are forgiven if they recant their heresies."
These pretentious bullies are so full of their own self-worth in the rarified air of America's own District 1 of Panem that they have lost touch with reality. Real danger confronts us and their policies got us here. 
Hunger games occur throughout our country with homeless veterans and other victims of NAFTA, GATT, WTO and other trade deals that have left America hollowed out of those manufacturing jobs that once would have employed these people. Wall Street vultures feed fat picking on the carcasses of those whose life savings were bound up in those homes that often now sit empty. Our infrastructure crumbles while our leaders prance upon the international stage either currying favor by writing checks or flexing their muscle with their hawkish rhetoric backed up by the bombs and blood of our brave American military. Immigrants flood across our borders refusing to abide by the rules, be truly vetted, and wait their turn in line for the privilege of being an American.
One man on the Republican side acknowledges the need to rebuild America. One man realizes that we must set the alarm on a home secure before we sally forth to save the world. Otherwise the big bad wolf will surely come and blow our house down. While he may not be equipped to lay the bricks, he knows exactly who to call to produce the craftsmanship needed to build it strong and how to make the best deal to enable us to afford it. And then he will appoint the most able commanders to direct our overseas efforts. 
So while the privileged cool kids who have benefitted from the politics of the past don't want Trump sitting at their table, the rest of the lunchroom welcomes him. 

American Media--Presumptive Moral Arbiters

With the San Bernardino terrorist attack the politicians and media pundits are all out to outdo the other with their wisdom and insight. So forgive me if I want to shake the radio and punch the TV with their arrogance and presumption of being the moral arbiters of our society. My heart pounds as I listen to their derision of those who disagree with them calling them morally base and uneducated.
I am amazed at their condescension to all who see some common sense in Donald Trumps' admittedly politically incorrect statements. He disagrees with these smug arbiters of morality who had no compunction about supporting bombing innocent civilian Muslim women and children in Iraq with the mere assumption that if they were Iraqi Muslims they must be supporters of Al-Quaeda. Americans were sent to die and be maimed in a foreign land for a cause that was based on a lie--Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction. 
By the way, I am a college graduate with a Masters degree, an author of historical fiction who finds that much of what Donald Trunk says makes sense. Perhaps part of my support for Trump comes from my disgust with the arrogance of the talking heads presuming superiority of values simply because of a journalism degree and a love affair with a camera and the sound of their own voice.
How ironic it is for Dick Chaney, with the blood of millions on his hands, to deride Donald Trump for espousing “un-American” values with Trump’s call for a moratorium on Muslims entering our country. Chaney was the major hawk beating the war drum to drop those bombs on Iraq and Afghanistan and send those troops into the Middle East calling their efforts a war on terror. Yet most of the terrorists who committed the 9/11 atrocities were from Saudi Arabia, not Iraq! These folks in the media and the government are culpable for the world situation we now must deal with. And now they want us to let those who created the problem tell us how to fix it?
And you wonder why those who have “experience” in government are so low in the polls?
It is morally okay to drop bombs and kill folks in fighting terror, but it isn’t okay to protect Americans (including Muslim Americans) by slowing down on immigration and actually enforcing the laws already on the books in order to assimilate the vast numbers of immigrants we already have? As for profiling, Presbyterians are not committing acts of terror. It is sane policy to look for terrorists where terrorists abide.
Every day in the news we hear about the numbers of unemployed looking for work. We know that the major cause of discontent among the young who are most vulnerable to radicalization is their feeling of alienation in the country in which they live. Rather than bringing more competition for the economic benefit that draws immigrants to America, it is time to allow the economy to recover so that we can offer these immigrants the hope of a prosperous future they expect to find. And, in the meantime, give those Americans whom the policies of the past have injured time to get their feet back on the ground.
Yet, Trump is being derided as espousing "unAmerican" values calling on the baser instincts of the "great unwashed" with his call for a moratorium on Muslims entering our country. I find this ironic when one considers that the neocons who are lambasting him with all of their power were the ones who had no compunction about bombing innocent Muslim women and children in Iraq with the mere assumption that if they were Iraqi they must be supporters of Al-Quaeda. Americans were sent to die and be maimed in a foreign land for a cause that was based on a lie. 
And now it is considered moderate and all American to advocate carpet bombing all lands held by ISIS whatever and wherever that might be to the degree that we'll find out if f sand can glow in the dark. 

What kind of a crazy world is this?