You clearly do not know much about the hadiths or else you would have a better understanding of Islam. You are simply believing the standard Islamophile, anti-Christian version of history and theology that is analogous to a cheap meal at McDonald's. No substance.
It's a delicious irony to me that the very strategy that's been used to frustrate the last 2 Democrat Presidents, has resulted in the creation of the Donald for President band wagon.
The exact opposite is true, Federberg. The reason the Republican electorate has given up on establishment candidates and gone with Trump is that they feel that the Republicans have caved in to Obama. Trump is not an extension of Republican behavior but a departure from it. To take one of numerous examples, I know numerous small business owners (accounting firms, medical practices, etc.) who have seen their employees' insurance costs skyrocket since Obamacare passed. They are getting killed by Obamacare and they are furious that the Republicans allowed Obama to pass it. It is this kind of sentiment which explains the support for Trump. They feel that the Republicans repeatedly sell out. Let me just quote this surprisingly good CNN article to straighten you out:
"The American people voted Republicans back into the majority of both houses of Congress specifically to stand up to President Obama's big-government, progressive agenda. Many voters were concerned about trillions in additional debt, the burdensome Obamacare mandates, executive overreach on immigration and an anemic economic recovery on Obama's watch.
Where has the pushback been? Republicans may have regained Congress, but Republican voters feel betrayed. They perceive a lack of action to stop the President's agenda, GOP leaders wheeling and dealing with Obama on budget compromises like the
"cromnibus," and their tendency to roll over anytime they are challenged by the President."
If it's not clear to you already I'll repeat this.. I'm for small government. I don't like the idea of the state interfering with either my financial or social life. I am hardly an Obama supporter. I am however independent minded enough to determine which parts of any parties policies I choose to support and which I don't. I used to be a banker at Goldman Sachs, and I left to trade at a hedge fund. Now I run my own business, quite successfully. I am hardly your typical Obama supporter. The idea of me supporting the Labour party in my country makes me shudder. So I find some of your comments very funny, but quite revealing about yourself (and it's not a good look mate).
You may not support Obama when it comes to big government but you agree with him on his unscientific and ahistorical egalitarianism, his anti-Christian Islamophilia, and his cultural Marxism. That you may not like some big government economic policies in America or Europe is trivial by comparison. Economic issues are significant but they are not the most important matters.
The combination of the Christian right and fiscal conservatives was never something I particularly liked, but it was tolerable. But over the last 2 decades (and for me it got worse after Gingrich), the GOP has constructed a narrative that is based increasingly on personality and not policy.
I entirely disagree. The GOP-neocon platform is very clear to anyone who looks beneath the surface. The main concern of the GOP establishment is foreign policy in pursuit of "universal democracy" coupled with a vigorous assertion of the American-Israeli alliance in conjunction with trade and immigration policies that favor the rich Republican donors. Trump is hated by the GOP establishment because he dissents on their foreign policy approach and also says that he would like to realign trade deals and control the border. The Republican platform has been entirely clear. Just pay attention to what the likes of McCain or Graham or Rubio are saying. They want us to attack Iran, invade multiple countries, saber rattle against Russia, and maintain the economic status quo for the very wealthy.
It is Obama's prerogative to select the new Supreme Court justice, but these candidates either don't understand the Constitution or are being so childish they refuse to respect it.
The Democrats have no respect for the Constitution and have not for 50 years. Why would you be sanctimonious about something so trivial?
The article I posted delves into some of the same issues. For some bizarre reason you don't want to focus on the substance of the guy's editorial, but rather talk about his Iraq record. Who cares??
Because I consider being a leading neocon proponent of the Iraq war an inexcusable intellectual failing. It is a black mark. But I will write up a full response to the editorial in the coming days when I have time.
Sadly none of us on this forum know if you agree that Republican strategies have led to Trump's run for the Presidency, an interesting topic in itself.
Republican strategies of the last twenty years have nothing to do with Trump's rise except that what Trump is doing is a reaction against the Republican Party, which is why the Republican Party is so opposed to him. The GOP elites hate him. Trump is not an extension of the GOP but a reaction against it. Now - the main two issues that have given Trump popularity are his positions on illegal immigration and trade policy, both of which are issues that the Republicans have skirted in favor of calling for new wars on Iran and Russia.
