The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Donald Trump once said,"I know words. I have the best words." Let's put that theory to the test, shall we? While recently speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump said this: "The media is very unfair. They're very biased, You look at The New York Times, I mean, the fail - I call it 'The Failing New York Times' because it won't be in business for another, probably more than a few years unless somebody goes in and buys it and wants to lose a lot of money. But The New York Times is so unfair. I mean they write three, four articles about me a day. No matter how good I do on something, they'll never write good. They don't write good. They have people over there, like Maggie Haberman and others, they don't - they don't write good. They don't know how to write good." Whether that claim is true or not, one thing is for certain - Donald Trump doesn't know how to speak "good." He thinks so, though, which makes i...

After reading a recent New York Times op-ed, entitled, "Have Democrats Pulled Too Far Left?," I don't think it will be long before the thesaurus will showcase the terms "denial" and "Wehner" as being synonymous with one other. Conservative writer and former George W. Bush deputy assistant, Peter Wehner, authored this very article, to which I'd like to offer a rebuttal. Wehner starts his piece by writing this: "AMONG liberals, it's almost universally assumed that of the two major parties, it's the Republicans who have become more extreme over the years. That's a self-flattering but false narrative." I love it when writers feel the need to place the first word of an article in all caps, especially when that word is among . Among is such a powerful term, and like most everyone else I'm sure, I'm grateful Mr. Wehner has brought attention to it. Moving on, Wehner followed that riveting first paragraph up with this: ...

Remember how Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy appeared to be many right-wingers' hero in recent days? Especially Sean Hannity's? Well, upon reading a new report, I have a hunch these same right-wingers will be backing away from Mr. Bundy in approximately ::checks watch:: 3, 2, 1... You see, Adam Nagourney of the New York Times just reported that Mr. Cliven Bundy uttered the following lovely words: "I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro. ...and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids - and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch - they didn't have nothing to do. They didn't have nothing for their kids to do. They didn't have nothing for their young girls to do. And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do? They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I'v...

Due to his policies as Mayor of New York, the homeless have not been Michael Bloomberg's most ardent supporters. Just recently, the New York Times featured a series on a homeless family in New York City, where the central piece of the story was 11-year-old Dasani. When asked about this family and story, Mayor Bloomberg responded with this: "This kid was dealt a bad hand. I don't know quite why. That's just the way God works. Sometimes some of us are lucky and some of us are not." While I would strongly agree that some of us are luckier than others, his seeming shrug of the shoulders when saying, "That's just the way God works.," irked me a great deal. Instead of taking some ownership, that quote says to me, "There's nothing I could have done about it. Just place your faith in an invisible man and hopefully a miracle will ensue." It could also be interpreted as, "It's not my fault. It's God's. Take it up with h...

In a post made on the right-wing site National Review Online , conservative blogger Kevin D. Williamson wrote the following regarding former Democratic Arizona Representative Gabby Giffords, who was shot in the head about two years ago and is a major proponent for gun control legislation: "While Ms. Giffords certainly has my sympathy for the violence she suffered, it should be noted that being shot in the head by a lunatic does not give one any special grace to pronounce upon public-policy questions, nor does it give one moral license to call people 'cowards' for holding public-policy views at variance with one's own. Her childish display in the New York Times is an embarrassment." This makes sense. Gabby Giffords referred to the Senate as a bunch of cowards due to their failing to pass a background check expansion bill on gun purchases not long ago. The bill failed by the final tally of 54-46. While 54% of the Senators supported the bill, 90% of the American ...

Walter De Vries, an aide of George Romney's for seven years in the '60s, just came forward with some interesting commentary regarding George's son and Republican presidential candidate Mitt. De Vries wrote that Mitt Romney's current campaign is "a far cry from the kind of campaign and conduct, as a public servant, I saw during the seven years I worked in George Romney's campaigns and served him as governor." He continued with, "While it seems that Mitt would say and do anything to close a deal - or an election, George Romney's strength as a politician and public officeholder was his ability and determination to develop and hold consistent policy positions over his life." De Vries also seems befuddled on Mitt's claims that his father played a major influence on him throughout his political career, as he said with regard to this, "I just don't see it. Where is it? Is it on issues, no? On the way he campaigns? No. George would...

As has been reported in recent days, it appears as if Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is focusing his attention more on zingers than anything else in preparation for his first debate with President Obama on Wednesday night. The following was written in the New York Times  on Friday: " Mr. Romney’s team has concluded that debates are about creating moments and has equipped him with a series of zingers that he has memorized and has been practicing on aides since August. His strategy includes luring the president into appearing smug or evasive about his responsibility for the economy." In light of this bit of news, I thought I'd be kind and attempt to help out Mr. Romney with these very zingers.  The Top Ten Romney Zingers 10. ::speaking to Obama:: "Wanna bet? $2 million? $2 million that I have more houses than you?" 9. "I even know gay guys that are jealous of my hair!" 8. "Unlike the President here, the only time I'...