Icon Re: Sadly, to me, the lens we view with.....
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What amazes me is that Franklin Graham is even elevated to a platform in the first place.  Obviously, he hides behind a cloak of respect by being a supposed "man of God," but his naked political partisanship ought to negate that for any rational thinker.  So I think that says two things about the nation:  1) there's a severe paucity of rational thinkers, and 2) the use of religion as a shield for outright mean behavior continues unabated.  Just a weak facsimile of a man that guy is, and yet I almost feel a little sympathy for him.  Given who his dad was, did Franklin ever have a choice but to go a little deeper into that well?  It would have been courageous if he'd made his name outside the family business.

I'll add this:   Trump should obviously be impeached.  But . . . I cannot think of any rational explanation for Joe Biden's son being on a board of directors in Ukraine in an industry largely foreign to him and his experience.   I can understand why Trump might have been enraged by that.  Would not vote for either of those guys.

That's going to get complicated, especially since (in my estimation) Sanders and/or Warren do not have the right ideas to move the nation forward.  Warren's ideas sound a lot like I remember Hugo Chavez sounding in the late 1990s although she probably doesn't have the charisma or the mandate to take it that far.  Having lived through that, I want nothing that says "we've got a plan for that" when speaking about every little perceived ill of the country.  Guarantee you half those plans will make things worse rather than better.  

So who steps up?

 

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