Not to not brag, but I was saying Trump had lost Iowa as soon as the Iowa debate finished with Trump a 'no-show'.
There
is no worse move he could have made. Even if he had gone to the debate
and cursed out Megyn Kelly (even if he had used rude and foul language
to react to any questions she posed that he disliked) Trump would have
still fared much better for showing up.
How
can 'the toughest candidate on the stage' skip a debate because a
'beautiful smart woman from FOX News' is asking him 'unfair questions'.
That
was the moment that the bully was shown to be a coward. A coward who
turned his back on Iowans rather than face the challenge of a
challenging interview.
This was the same
kind of crash that Howard Dean experienced in Iowa, but it wasn't Dean's
Scream that did him in. Many forget that one week before the IA
Caucuses a tape came out of Howard Dean being interviewed on a Canadian
TV show and he said, roughly this...
-'The Iowa Caucuses are a joke. They
represent a very small number of people and the caucus voting system is
eccentric and the state is simply not reflective of the nation as a
whole'.-
A week or so later when the voting occurred Dean had dropped from a commanding 1st place lead in the polls, to 3rd place in reality. That is when Dean 'screamed' at his rally after the vote. Understandably. He realized he'd just lost the nomination.
I personally hope Trump's decline continues on, as Dean's did.
I'm a Liberal, but frankly I do not fear the Nixon-Like Ted Cruz as much as the amorphous Trump. I prefer the devil I know over the devil I don't. I know where I disagree and disagree with Ted Cruz, but with Trump, I have no idea what he will say and do next, because I know he will say anything and I fear he might do the same. Cruz is extreme, Trump is crazy.
[By the way, this is the only account I could find of Howard Dean's infamous interview on Canadian Television whereby he dissed the Iowa Caucus and thereby lost in Iowa.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/01/25/3727401/the-iowa-caucuses-are-an-anti-democratic-nightmare-that-shouldnt-exist/ ]
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A Walk With MLK-My proudest day.
One bright morning when I was a 12 year old boy living in Sandy Springs GA, my mother June announced to my younger brother and sister and me that we weren't going to school that day. She told us to dress nice and get in the car. We only found out as we were leaving the house that we were going to march in Martin Luther King's funeral procession.
It was a short quiet drive. I don't care for crowds and I was worried that this was going to be a long hard sermon to listen to, but I knew we were doing the right thing. We had mostly grown up in the poorer parts of various southern towns and we were used to both colors of people sharing the streets, but this was an amazing feeling to be the only people of one color we saw in such a large crowd. I wasn't surprised at how warm and comfortable it felt. And I realized immediately what a good idea Momma had to come there.
The entire walk and service seem like a beautiful, if melancholy dream. Never had we felt such an outpouring of peace and goodwill through such sadness. All of us have shared our memories over the years, many times. The whole event passed like a song, but midway through my younger brother, only 8, began fidgeting, being so short he was staring at people's stomachs and bored. Then slowly and quietly, without a word, a tall strong man standing behind Steve reached down and picked him up over his head and gently placed him on his shoulders so he could see. Steve was quietly mesmerized and still says it was the most amazing experience he ever had to be lifted up over the crowd and to watch the whole panorama from his private box.
It was a small piece of heaven on earth that the reverend brought to all of us there that day. My mother and sister and brother and I all agree that was all of our proudest day. Not for anything we've done to help with King's cause, but what we did for ourselves by being there. It changed us. It was a religious experience.
When I see pictures of the good doctor and his statue on the mall, he is very real to me. He is still alive, I'm sure of it.
And I wouldn't be at all surprised if he came back one bright morning.
God bless
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