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By George F. Will
Opinion writer
July 17 at 2:57 PM
Americas child president had a play date with a KGB alumnus, who surely enjoyed providing day care. It was a useful, because illuminating, event: Now we shall see how many Republicans retain a capacity for embarrassment.
Jeane Kirkpatrick, a Democrat closely associated with such Democratic national security stalwarts as former senator Henry Jackson and former senator and former vice president Hubert Humphrey, was President Ronald Reagans ambassador to the United Nations. In her speech at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, she explained her disaffection from her party: They always blame America first. In Helsinki, the president who bandies the phrase America First put himself first, as always, and America last, behind President Vladimir Putins regime.
Because the Democrats had just held their convention in San Francisco, Kirkpatrick branded the blame America first cohort as San Francisco Democrats. Thirty-four years on, how numerous are the Helsinki Republicans?
What, precisely, did President Trump say about the diametrically opposed statements concerning Russia and the 2016 U.S. elections by U.S. intelligence agencies (and the Senate Intelligence Committee) and by Putin concerning Russia and the 2016 U.S. elections? Precision is not part of Trumps repertoire: He speaks English as though it is a second language that he learned from someone who learned English last week. So, it is usually difficult to sift meanings from Trumps word salads. But in Helsinki he was, for him, crystal clear about feeling no allegiance to the intelligence institutions that work at his direction and under leaders he chose.
Speaking of Republicans incapable of blushing those with the peculiar strength that comes from being incapable of embarrassment consider Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.), who for years enjoyed derivative gravitas from his association with John McCain (Ariz.). Graham tweeted about Helsinki: Missed opportunity by President Trump to firmly hold Russia accountable for 2016 meddling and deliver a strong warning regarding future elections. A missed opportunity by a man who does not acknowledge the meddling?
Contrast Grahams mush with this on Monday from McCain, still vinegary: Todays press conference in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory. Or this from Arizonas other senator, Jeff Flake (R): I never thought I would see the day when our American president would stand on the stage with the Russian President and place blame on the United States for Russian aggression. Blame America only.
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MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)Can we point a finger at you?
stopbush
(24,396 posts)JI7
(89,248 posts)MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)Seems uncharacteristic of him but knowing that he opposed the Orange One, I will hear him out.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)back in 2016, I believe.
Will and the late Charles Krauthammer were among the last remaining "intellectuals" in the GOP, and both hated Trump from the start of his run for president. (I think Trump tweeted some anti-Krauthammer statements back in 2015 or maybe even before?)
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Will has pulled no punches about his dislike for Trump. Starting before he was elected.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Bad we don't band together and vow to repeat in unison. Every time it's suggested there are troll flames. Love Avenatti's "make America decent again. Make America America again"
calimary
(81,238 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)Helsinki GOPutin.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)superpatriotman
(6,247 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)or bailing Trump out with cash which he launders for them.
Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)Use to hate Will, now I agree with him.
tosh
(4,423 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...maybe that's why he doesn't like Trump*.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)That's today's gee oh pee.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)that got us here and YOUR party that's content to keep us here. So, GFY.
JI7
(89,248 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,680 posts)Boo effing who.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)lame54
(35,287 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...and poor George Will suffers from Raygun Derangement Syndrome. An obviously contagious disease where the infected still equate God with the Gipper and don't understand why everyone doesn't.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)The fact he couldnt stoop so low as to kiss the boil covered orange ass of this disgusting pig says very little for his moral character.
So little respect for this dried up shill.
Hekate
(90,674 posts)...to cut a tough overdone Trump steak with.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)'Is there any undesirable trait that Mr. Trump does not possess?'
Hekate
(90,674 posts)...might infer, and then find" etc.
Final paragraph:
"The explanation is in doubt; what needs to be explained his compliance is not. Granted, Trump has a weak mans banal fascination with strong men whose disdain for him is evidently unimaginable to him. And, yes, he only perfunctorily pretends to have priorities beyond personal aggrandizement. But just as astronomers inferred, from anomalies in the orbits of the planet Uranus, the existence of Neptune before actually seeing it, Mueller might infer, and then find, still-hidden sources of the behavior of this sad, embarrassing wreck of a man."
Mueller is a meticulous scientist, indeed.
PJMcK
(22,035 posts)" Trump) speaks English as though it is a second language that he learned from someone who learned English last week."
George Will may be a Republican but he sure knows how to write!
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Tatiana
(14,167 posts)"sad, embarrassing wreck of a man"
Will does have a way with words.