Day: May 16, 2011

Things You Might Like To Remember

The best news for a Monday……

I recently said that I would not post anymore on the con artists that was thinking about running for the GOP nomination….TRUMP….I lied!

First let me remind my readers….I have always said that he would make his decision on 16 May and that would be NOT to run….And today’s date is…WHAT?!?  Damn!  I do love being right….(he said giddily)

But for those people that thought even for a moment, that Trump would make a good president and BTW that includes Huckabee, who is also NOT running, maybe there are a few things that you will need to remember before you even consider this consummate con man as a viable candidate…….

Salon.com’s reporter Justin Elliot has summed it up for those too lazy to Google…….

  • The time he killed a pro sports league As the owner of a team in the fledgling United States Football League in the 1980s, Trump “led the USFL into a self-destructive, all-out war with the NFL” that culminated in a disastrous anti-trust lawsuit and, ultimately, the premature death of the USFL.
  • That his clothing line is made in China Even as Trump bashes the quality of Chinese manufacturing and bemoans outsourcing, his Donald J. Trump Signature Collection of suits and ties is made in China.
  • How he wildly exaggerates his wealth Trump claims his net worth is as high as $7 billion, but various independent estimates have put the figure an order of magnitude lower than that. Indeed, the requirement for presidential candidates to file a personal financial disclosure is one reason Trump will likely never be a candidate for office.
  • How he inflates his academic record Trump says he was a “really good student at the best school in the country;” multiple profiles early in his career claimed he graduated first in his college class. In fact, he was only admitted as a transfer student to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania through a family connection, and he graduated without honors.
  • His poor grasp of the English language He once misspelled the word “too” in a letter of complaint to the Times’ Gail Collins. Here’s a sample semi-coherent Trump sentence: “Her storytelling ability and word usage (coming from me, who has written many best sellers), is not at a very high level.”
    His multiple bankruptcies While describing himself as “a deal maker without peer,” Trump has in fact had more business bankruptices (4) than wives (3), as Katrina vanden Heuvel pointed out.
    When he was sued for not renting to African-Americans Early in his career, a major discrimination lawsuit was brought against Trump and his company, accused by the Justice Department of declining to rent to potential black tenants. Trump ultimately agreed to take steps to avoid discrimination without admitting guilt.
    His constant race-baiting Trump’s entire fake presidential campaign was characterized by racially tinged attacks and gaffes — from his obsession with birtherism to his baseless claim that President Obama did not deserve to get into Columbia and Harvard Law School to his now-famous boasts about “the blacks.”
    His long history of scamming the press Few remember it, but Trump’s first fake presidential campaign was way back in the 1988 cycle. He did it again in 2000. We’re living through the third iteration.

Please keep this post in mind the next time this weasel slithers into the political arena….he is a Liar and a com man and deserves NOTHING, especially from the media that was so in love with him as a candidate….and the people need to keep his game in mind so the next time he will NEVER be considered for anything other than a con man and a TV personality.

Political Philosophy Vs Political Theory

College of Political Knowledge

Subject:  Political Philosophy/Political Theory

Oh Geez!  I have this tendency for self-abuse…..especially mental abuse…….this is one of those times…trying to explain the difference between the two approaches to politics could make a person go completely batty……good thing I suffer from brain worms after years of political analysis and explanation….so I should come out of this a bit better than some one else…..we will see…..

Political philosophy begins with the question: what ought to be a person’s relationship to society? The subject seeks the application of ethical concepts to the social sphere and thus deals with the variety of forms of government and social existence that people could live in – and in so doing, it also provides a standard by which to analyze and judge existing institutions and relationships. Although the two are intimately linked by a range of philosophical issues and methods, political philosophy can be distinguished from political science. Political science predominantly deals with existing states of affairs, and insofar as it is possible to be amoral in its descriptions, it seeks a positive analysis of social affairs – for example, constitutional issues, voting behavior, the balance of power, the effect of judicial review, and so forth. Political philosophy generates visions of the good social life: of what ought to be the ruling set of values and institutions that combine men and women together.

And then we have political theory which basically put, is the political orientation of a group or nation..or more simply an ideology or a specific orientation……  and these include, but not limited to……conservatism, progressivism, radicalism, liberal, fascism, socialism………and on and on…..for example conservatism…which means a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes (Does that sound at all like anything happening today?)…..or centrism, a term you hear more and more…but in a political science thinking it is avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action……..and this goes on and on……

A political philosopher deals with what is best for the country or a society and a political theorist is ONLY concerned with what is best for a specific slice of that society, not the society as a whole and diverse organism but rather a single group or class, if you will.

I realize that I have done little to clear the confusion up….but at least I tried….and that is more than most can say….so sports fans…..what is more important the philosophy or the theory?