2016 May 22^nd

Everyone knows about Jeffery Lord, the white haired Trump sycophant who tries to clean up after Trump’s many public gaffes. The latest was on a cable show that played a 2011 tape of Trump insisting that the United States should remove Muammar Gadhafi, the Libyan dictator from power. Trump pointed out that Gadhafi was a murderous lunatic and he made a convincing case for his removal.  Gadhafi was responsible for the bombing destruction of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie. Scotland killing 270 people; he was also responsible for the bombing of a Berlin nightclub in 1988 that killed two American service members and injured dozens of others. In terms of American deaths and injuries there was surely more reason to remove this Libyan dictator than the dictator in Iraq.

Fast forward to 2016 and Trump has changed his tune; now the removal of Gadhafi was just awful because it left a vacuum in the Libyan power structure which the nasties were quick to fill. This is certainly Hillary Clinton’s fault because she was Secretary of State at the time, although a cynic might point out that it is more about Hillary Clinton being Trump’s likely antagonist for the Presidency. When Lord is asked about Trump’s switcheroo he tells us that Trump has just changed his mind and over the course of the years from 2011 to 2016, and anyone might do that. Lord doesn’t explain just why Trump’s view of the downing of Pan Am flight 103 has changed and with it Trump’s view of Gadhafi. Unfortunately, the interviewer never asked him.

Once again we have a Republican spokesman calling our attention to the not so improbable fact that fully 60 percent of those polled believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. Given that Trump has spent literally millions on an effort to persuade the country that it is going to hell in a hand basket, why wouldn’t that message begin to have an effect; couple that with Sanders telling anyone who will listen that the country is the victim of the “moneyed classes” who control the elections and everything else of importance, why isn’t the dissatisfaction with the country closer to 90 percent?

But it isn’t; the country is in fact doing remarkably well.  This morning’s paper has advertisements for at least 50 jobs. People keep trying to get into this country; they are not trying to get out of it. This in in spite of Donald Trump’s best efforts to convince everyone that only he can “make America great again.” If it isn’t great now why are so many trying to come here? I’ve said that before but I still haven’t gotten an answer!