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“He is who he is,” Melania Trump told People Magazine earlier this year. “Even if you give him advice, he will maybe take it in, but then he will do it the way he wants to do it. You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.”
Although I’m sure Melania meant her words to be an asset and compliment to her husband’s personality, I see the characteristics she describes as being a huge liability to his being the forty-fifth president of the United States.
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On my last blog, as promised, I was going to take this time to respond to the Op/Ed writer for the Denver Post, Steve Lipsher’s, excellent article entitled Patriots or scoundrels?, which was written On June 30, 2013.
What Lipsher’s Op/Ed piece reveals is how prevalent politically tinged catchy phrases, simple minded and half-baked solutions are made in an effort to imply that what’s said captures the essence of what needs to be done to get our country back on the “right” track again.
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On June 30, 2013, Steve Lipsher, Op/Ed writer for the Denver Post, wrote an article entitled Patriots or scoundrels?
Lipsher begins his article by saying, “This is the week to wave Old Glory and sing the national anthem proudly as we celebrate Independence Day.”
What Lipsher objects to is the way “those among us who tend to “display” their “red, white and blue fervor the rest of the year.” They do this by overtly demonstrating their nationalistic zeal by provocatively and ostentatiously questioning the patriotism of those who disagree with those who express any kind of criticism toward our beloved nation whatsoever,
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