Hi mt,
I'll be happy to follow your lead - please point me to one thread you opened on any lies from the left.
And you will note - this thread isn't about me - no matter how desperately you would like it to be - nor is it about the President.
What would you like to add to the topic of the thread
Prov 10:19
Hi HL,
I didn't hear Biden make the claim. I didn't watch the Democratic debates, if that's where he made the claim. I also haven't started listening to all of the usual noise about what the candidates are doing. On the other hand, I do listen to President Trump a lot of times when he speaks and it's difficult to watch any news channel these days that isn't covering some of the things that he says.
I say all that just to say that I'm not likely to start listening to all of this campaign stuff for a bit yet and other than what I read in the news, I don't really have anything to offer concerning untruths that are being said by some of the candidates. I contend that the reason you're feeling so overwhelmed by all the rhetoric out there about President Trump's words is because he just so often jseems to make stuff up off the cuff as he speaks, and quite a lot of it seems to be wrong.
I get it that you don't agree, but honestly, if you're really waiting on me to start some threads about things that the candidates are saying, that's likely not going to happen anytime soon. However, the president is the president. When he speaks most people listen because he is the president. When a candidate, at this early point, speaks, well, he's just a candidate and at this point may not even be standing when we get to the final race. So listening to all of them isn't something that I'm ready to do yet.
Finally, I've said this many times before, I don't care for the kind of person that Donald Trump is. In a lot of my issues with Donald Trump, it isn't so much about his policies, although I do believe that the man generally has very little real knowledge of the things that he speaks about, it is about the kind of person that he is. That he seems perfectly happy and satisfied to just denigrate everyone. Friend look, I don't know how long you've been involved in politics or listened to presidents over the last 50 years, but no national leader has ever talked about others the way that he does. And as far as I'm concerned it's because his mother didn't raise him right. Calling people names just isn't the way I expect leaders of my country to act.
He seems to just constantly gloat over his great wealth. Wealthy people just generally don't do that. Now that's not to say that no one ever has, but most wealthy people consider it rather gauche to brag about wealth.
Yes, he seems to have absolutely no qualms in just making up facts and figures. He even admitted that he did that in a conversation with the Canadian Prime Minister. His press secretary also admitted that there were times that such things were just made up. Who does that, except snake oil salesmen?
So, you're free to support the man and vote for the man and stand up and whoop and holler at his appearances and even wear your MAGA hat. I'm not going to be bothered by that much. But, please understand that I'm never going to support any person who acts and talks like Donald Trump as my president.
I want a leader. Someone who can be trusted to tell me the truth at least most of the time. Someone who understands that everyone, even your enemies deserve to be treated with respect in their address. Someone who is able to work with others to accomplish shared goals.
I don't want someone who can't be trusted, by his own admission, to tell the truth at least most of the time. I don't want the leader of the nation that I'm fairly proud of being a part of, to be a bully, a war monger, or to disrespect others by calling them names. If I disagree with someone, that's ok. But to stoop down to calling them some sort of derogatory name because I don't agree with them, well for me, that isn't ok. I find it sad that so many people do seem to find it ok.
God bless,
In Christ, ted
