Thursday, November 10, 2016

"A Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue"


My Blog readers know my site has been silent for some time. On August 27th my wife Peggy had a significant stroke (the night after my last post), and my life since then has been consumed with her recovery. Stroke recovery takes patience and good therapists, and I am pleased to say she continues to improve and hopefully will be coming home in a few weeks.

After this historical election I wanted to post a Blog, but just do not have the time. But a friend of mine sent me this after I asked him to be a guest Blogger.

By Robert Catalano

A Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue:

On this day following Donald Trump's election to President of the United States, the tone of the nation reported through the usual media outlets is shock and disbelief.  The questions being asked around the opinion tables at CNN, that bastion of liberal political opinion disguised as real news and other mainstream media outlets, are beside themselves with shock.

This was not supposed to happen with Hillary Clinton leading in the major polls by as much as ten or more points for a while.  Donald Trump seemed to be making a fool of himself during the debates against Hillary and the Clinton campaign was into a major smear campaign against him.  Some media outlets were anticipating that Trump would undoubtedly drop out of the race with all of the baggage being reported against him.  Even the Republican establishment in Washington D.C. was pulling their endorsements and making statements that Trump was not electable.

What Donald Trump's opposition failed to recognize was the American people have had enough ultra-liberalism.  Four or eight more years of the same policies expressed by Obama through Hillary Clinton were unacceptable.  That factor coupled with the revelations about Hillary Clinton's disingenuous personality, consistent pattern of lying, the Clinton family pay-to-play schemes and the email scandal that she was unable to talk her way out of, sunk the Clinton ship. So in some ways it was not how well Trump performed, but how poorly Hillary and her campaign performed.

The media outlets appear to be in a dither now with the talking heads asking questions about Trump's plans for running the nation.  They must be in such shock that they are unable to remember Trumps campaign statements.  The essence of his plan has been reported to run our government like a business with key people in important positions.  He has promised to provide national governance that benefits our nation rather than the special interests that comprise the majority of the Democratic Party.

The future of America that our children and grandchildren will face is looking brighter today and looking forward, it is now all up to President-elect Donald Trump.