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--Nobody deserves to be automatically judged guilty just because somebody accuses them. The accusation itself could be the crime.
--"I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it." --Benjamin Franklin 1776
The GOP and the current Administration have an amazing track record to show for their effort and the results are pretty much all good:
As of this past weekend:
--Since January 2017, the economy has added 669,000 construction jobs and an amazing 479,000 manufacturing jobs that some said would never come back. April 2019 marked the 14th consecutive month of unemployment at or below 4% (traditionally considered full employment.)
The issue of intellectual honesty and dishonesty has come up frequently in discussions over at least the last few months. Perhaps it is time to understand and define what is meant by the terms.
We all do not have to agree on most things. But we do have to accept that we do not have to agree in order for the other to be acceptable. When we can allow the same liberties and courtesies and the right to be whom and what they are to the opposition as we demand for ourselves, we will have
It seems that many say they are exercising their constitutional right to protest and speak out in the wake of the last election. They insist their protests and expressed opinions are reasonable and justified.
But to many of us, those protests and "reasonable opinions" look and sound very much like hate, bigotry, intolerance, and unreasonableness. Some even go so far as to come across as unAmerican and/or unpatriotic; even dangerous to America as we know it.
This morning before the inauguration ceremony, Barack and Michelle Obama had tea at the White House with Donald and Melania Trump. No cameras. No press. Just four people having tea. That is an amazing thing to me.
At the ceremony itself, I watched a smiling and gracious Nancy Pelosi shake the President-elect's hand and I heard a remarkable and unifying speech by Charles Schumer. I saw George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Bill and Hillary Clinton smile and warmly greet the President-elect
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