Smoldering from declining audience and ad revenues, CNN’s debate structure won them a big punch bowl of ratings and revenues. As expected, Trump was the evenings Joe Palooka and I found his restraint amazing. Perhaps illustrating that he’s far more pressure-tolerant and less bombastic than many had thought. A most estimable trait particularly for an occupant of the Oval Office.
On the flip side of the evening is Carly Fiorina who made a point of avoiding direct eye contact with Trump while resigned to peevish quips, brooding mannerisms and bilious rants. By the way, the very type of exhibitions that got her fired from HP and precisely the type of hypnotic bile CNN hoped for.
For those who watched the televised debate do you not find it offensive that Candidates policy ambitions typically fall in into one or the other (and in a few instances both) of the following:
(1) In one hand they tell you what they plan to do and then proceed to explain how difficult it will be to accomplish it.
(2) In the years many of them have held elected or appointed office they are unable to point to a single policy success that they themselves had campaigned on or originated.
We should be more concerned about a Candidates capacity to act and less about their ability to strike at a baited hook or torture ones conscience with their deeply offensive caterwauling. To that end on the issue of substance – the type that should be of most interest to voters – I found Ted Cruz to be the most relevant and Jeb Bush the most transparent in his preference for adolescent tantrums.
The “house” audience, unfortunately, bought into the CNN’s planned slugfest which for my money parody’s the decline of Rome. The Coliseum’s spectacles were so intoxicating the people failed to realize they were being robbed of their future.
Washington’s a mess as is much of the world and though I have no desire to see the U.S. forced to stand as the Order-of-the-Planet, the fact remains that for this Nation to restore itself domestically it will also have to take a stand in opposition to international disorder. This will require a leader of immense courage, moral clarity, confidence and discipline. One capable of standing before a divided and desperate nation and selling it an outcome that we’ve been taught to believe was out-of-fashion or unbelievable.
You can hire an encyclopedic brain, a parrot, a stooge or purchase a teleprompter; capacity for competent thought occurs at a far different and distinct level.
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
