tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371904020164697258.post266220431277747044..comments2024-03-28T03:12:12.079-05:00Comments on Northern Valley Beacon: Dear Barack, Hillary, and Donald: Please do not play us for fools.David Newquisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04937837001343753140noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371904020164697258.post-38356772590548684542016-11-12T11:03:27.157-06:002016-11-12T11:03:27.157-06:00As a professor who taught rhetorical theory and pr...As a professor who taught rhetorical theory and practice, I have been pondering the stances and words of President Obama and Hillary Clinton in response to Trump’s election. I note that they very carefully have put themselves in the role of gracious, cool-headed leaders of knowledge and experience, who are schooling Trump in how mature and conscientious people behave. That is the image of them they will leave at the White House, and it conveys the information that the White House was cared for with dignified and thoughtful hands. Their words are to transfer the White House to Trump in accordance with Constitutional process, and their words carefully state that they will not obstruct Trump in any way but will help him make a cordial and efficient transition. He has already refuted some of the promises he made to undo the work that Obama accomplished. <br /><br />What puzzles most people, including me, is how the political and social atrocities committed by Trump during the campaign can be ignored and dismissed. Trump’s defamations of Obama and Clinton plunged American politics into a state of derangement and degradation that may well still destroy the country. No matter how hard Trump tries to be presidential, hundreds of hours of videos and stacks of papers that have recorded his campaign will always be there to show an unfit and dangerous man. Obama and Clinton are careful not to provoke him into a juvenile rage at this time.<br /><br />But as a Princeton professor of religion stated on CNN recently, before Trump can assume any presidential leadership, he will have to account to the majority of the people for every word uttered by him and every action he took during the campaign. And as protestors and political opponents call for him to do so, Obama and Clinton will step aside and let his own words and actions speak for him. When his appointments and actions take on ominous aspects, I think Obama and Clinton will point them out, but try to avoid engaging Trump on the low and depraved level on which he operates. They will keep the better angels of human nature in view for the people to see. David Newquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04937837001343753140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371904020164697258.post-23756052516534004202016-11-11T14:14:38.184-06:002016-11-11T14:14:38.184-06:00David,
That is an excellent summary of Donald Trum...David,<br />That is an excellent summary of Donald Trump's America.<br /><br />I would like your opinion on what Hillary and President Obama's role might be in this resistance.<br /><br />It is unimaginable to me that they will sit back and let Trump run rampant over our Constitution.Roger Corneliushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03789481259109064139noreply@blogger.com