The Bald Truth: Hillary Attacks!
By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
This hot viral video on U-Tube shows third-place Iowa democratic primary finisher Sen. Hillary Clinton desperately pitching to stay in the race. Here, at Saturday’s New Hampshire Democratic debates, she says she’s taken on drug companies and Big Oil, boasts a record of fighting for change and making it happen…unlike others who raise expectations and just promise it.
She not only sounds exhausted, but a bit shrill, perhaps a warble of fear in her voice?
We hear reports husband Bill took the Iowa results hard, as a referendum on his Presidency, but is stumping for Hillary in snowy New Hampshire for all he’s worth. But can his charm and likeability save her? In this video excerpt on the stump, Hillary touts her hard work, taking credit for bulling through legislation providing health care for children and National Guard members without health insurance.
But will it be enough? Can she stay in the race by selling her record, along with Clinton nostalgia? Will it be enough to overcome Barack Obama’s lead? He’s got Big Mo, and she’s fighting swimming hard against a popular rip tide, paddling and peddling herself as an insider’s outsider, a professional politician who bills herself as taking on the system while being part of it.
One thing is certain, she’s learning Rose Garden fantasies won’t cut it; her New Hampshire showing will likely cast the die with party big guns who don’t want to go with another almost-ran, and she may have to get down and dirty, or at least get as real as she can, to stay in the race. She just doesn’t excite the Craigslist crowd like Obama, and they appear to be psyched, a new youth factor.
As one of my son’s twenty-something friends said this weekend, “I don’t have a feel for her, I don’t really know who she is.”
Do you? Do you think what’s happening is a rejection of the Clinton years, or a real undercurrent of disgust for Bush, war, and the economy?
January 7th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Art, I truly believe the young people in this country are ready for a change. I am 65 years old and I certainly would like to see a change. I haven’t made up my mind but I am certainly listening to the candidates as much as I can find time for. So glad the younger generation is so interested in this campaign and feel they will be out to vote in the primaries and also in the final election in November. A lot of laws in Washington need to updated and/or changed and I truly believe the young people agree.
I will keep watching your site for campaigning and voting updates.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Art….Glad to see you back on.
My obversations are, like your son’s friend said…a lot of the younger people do not have an indept knowledge of who is running for office. A lot of the older people are just fed up with the aministration and with Congress, and want the best change possible.
The bottom line is that once the elected get into office, they behave like someone up to their ears in a swamp full of allligators…they forget their campaign promises to the people, and a lot of times do not know what they are voting on…that is, if they show up to vote. IMO
Best wishes Art.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I think one thing that is hurting Hillary is she’s still tied to the past. She tries to talk of “change”, but then reverts back to ” I have 35 years experience”, and goes on and on and on. Granted, she needs to let people know of her accomplishments, but she needs to talk to the young people and make them feel inclusive. After all, they are America’s future. It’s hard sometimes to teach old dogs new tricks. LOL. She needs to quit looking back on yesterday so that she can find tomorrow, which really counts.
January 7th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Nice heading, Art!
January 7th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
No matter how charming Mr. Clinton is *depends on what your defination of the word is, is :lol:8 Hillary will never have that title. I don’t think I’ve ever read where anyone has described her as such, and she irritates me to no end. Can’t quite put my finger on why, but listening to those daily news channels, someone pointed out that she is likened to a nagging housewife, who keeps telling you to take out the garbage. Until she calmed herself down, in that video, she did have the shrill.
January 7th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Didn’t Bill only get 3% of the vote in Iowa, when he ran? Why are they worrying about this one “loss” when there are still so many more votes to go?
January 7th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
What worries me the most is Obama, he reminds me of Jim Jones and I’m afraid voters are going to drink the koolaid! At least Hillary is talking about the issues, Obama is talking about praying and the light coming down and change. When will he talk about the issues and what he is going to do for us. When the next attack on US soil comes will he say lets pray and hope the light comes down. All the other cand. are talking about issues!!!! reps and dems!!! I don’t want to take back the country, I want a President who will lead and act when the time comes !!!!
January 7th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I feel bad for Hillary. She has worked hard for where she has been and now some newcomer is stealing away all that she has worked for. I like Barack Obama and I can understand why people feel the need for someone fresh - someone who hasn’t been in politics for long. I have this feeling that, barring any big mistakes he may make, that he will be the Democratic nominee and will win the Presidential Election. I hope he can handle this mess but he does seem somewhat inexperienced.
January 7th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Hillary Clinton kind of lost me when the Daily Show aired some clips of her interviews:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=103274&title=hillarys-laugh-track
I just feel that she is attempting to manipulate public opinion, whether laughing at something that isn’t funny or choking up while answering questions during her campaign (which seemed like a ploy for sympathy to me). Everything she says and does just seems so scripted and calculated. This will be the first elections I’ll be participating in and so far my vote is with Obama. He seems like an intelligent, genuine, honest, hardworking man. And that’s a great start, even if he doesn’t have a lot of experience. I’m tired of the Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton years. It’s time to move on and try something new.
January 7th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Seriously, Art, shrill? Come on, that’s hardly fair.
As for the “warble of fear”, maybe Clinton simply understands that the U.S. is $9 trillion dollars in debt. Consumer debt has risen to an all-time high, and the foreclosure rate of homes has skyrocketed. We have been at war with two other nations, and we’ve threatened a third.
If Americans don’t break away from the lockstep thinking that got us here in the first place, the situation can only grow more dire.
That we would put Obama in the race due to some sort of “youthful excitement” is a sad testament to our state of awareness. We are in a state of emergency — it is not the time to vote for a hopeful message, but for swift action. Obama does not have the background, the record, or the experience to turn this country back from the disaster it is facing.
It also takes more than a party vote to elect a President, it takes swing votes as well. Would disenfranchised Republicans and Independents vote for Obama? It appears the answer is no.
Clinton has a more moderate view, a record to back it up, and the political experience to navigate both Congress and
international issues. Edwards has less, but still more than Obama.
I’ll be bitterly disappointed if another Republican takes office, and I’m afraid that may happen if Obama wins the nomination, or — on the small chance he is elected — he ends up being a one-term President who leaves this country worse for the wear.
January 7th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
To me, it appears that Hillary’s campaign is reaching back to her own nostalgia with the nineties and her husband’s presidency. Well, it’s not the nineties anymore and I don’t want to go back to the Clinton era. Hillary was the first lady during that time-not the President-that shouldn’t count as HER experience. Her campaign implies that she would have a “co-president” and non-one wants to see that.
Obama’s the one!
January 7th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
I suppose I should have said something about Hillary, since that was the topic, so here goes…
She is a very intelligent lady who can hold her on in a situation. Someone once said: “we need someone who can handle bin laden” Someone spoke up and said “Hillary can”. lol
I feel the time has come for a drastic change, therefore, having a female president would be that. No matter what your opinion of Bill’s presidency (or his personal misgivings), our economy was much better off then than now, he is well respected in foreign nations, and you have to admit that our popularity needs elevating in that area of the world. He would be our good-will ambassador.
Someone who would want to bomb Pakistan leaves me a tad bit nervous.
If Hillary doen’t get the nomination….guess I’ll have to hope that Mitt Romney does. I am not party affiliated.
Thanks Art
January 7th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
From Roves lips// The Republican’s want Obama to be the Dem Candidate. Why? Because they KNOW they can beat him. They cannot win over Clinton. Wise up people. The Republican well greased machine will destroy Obama.
My opinion…. Maybe the Republican’s are wrong.
We want our country back/ But I think Edwards is the one that is experienced enough to do it. Like he says, he has fought corporate lawyers all his adult life… and won, He knows what it takes to beat them at their own game. Haven’t we had enough un-experienced “leaders”.. Carter, which was to gentle. GWB, which was to stubborn and right down arrogant and has no sense of dealing with foreign affairs or running this so called “war”. Edwards is intelligent, a listener, and wants to give us our country back. Obama is to green, he has no experience other than writing a couple of books and being a husband and dad. His Senator roll has not been that long to even be considered experienced.
January 7th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I think fear can be a good thing.
I’d rather be safe than sorry.
Hope our government knows more than we know.
Hope is a good thing, too!
Tremendous pressure comes with the job.
It really helps when ‘CNN’ asks the question…
“What will you do when one of our cities gets hit buy a nuclear bomb.’
Stay calm!!!
Which candidate said they knew how to capture our enemy?
I don’t think that was on ‘CNN.’
Are these just scare tactics…or is the threat real?
Close your eyes and make a wish.
I hope whomever is elected ‘Earned’ it.
The United Nations…what a nice thought.
Gee, it’s hard enough for us Americans to all get along!!!
Love Always,
Freida
P.S. Guess if I tried, I could write this real pretty.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:14 am
I’m not from your country, but if i remember right, Americans never had it so good when Bill Clinton was President. Be careful when your wishing for change…it didn’t work out too well the last time, with George Bush junior. Obama has less experience than Bush and Opra has none. Obama and Opra will probably end up by building more girls schools in Africa…why didn’t she spend the money on the poor black kids in the United States. She is American isn’t she. Now if you want the Bill Clinton, good times, you have to vote for Hillary. Don’t ever forget what they did for your country.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:37 am
I have never understood why woman do not like Hillary. She is everything we were fighting for in the liberation. She is okay - Rudy G or McCain is my candidate but love Bill.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:15 am
TO: Poster # 7 No you have got it wrong sounds more like a propaganda of ideas sold to another country in the 1930-40’s That fell for it hook line & sinker.And just look what happen to their country. I do hope the Americans are smarter.
January 8th, 2008 at 1:20 am
Sorry but IMO Hillary Clinton would not be the best choice at this time we do need change and we will not get it with the Clintons.I have heard many democrats say they will cross over if she is nominated.
January 8th, 2008 at 2:45 am
Her numbers added up to I think less than 10K.
In 35 years.
January 8th, 2008 at 3:10 am
I like old politicians.
You know why.
Because they know they’re gonna die.
And, they know they don’t matter anymore.
They know they can’t take it with them, and they might as well give it back.
Hope is a wonderful thing.
I don’t believe Mrs. Clinton is quite old enough yet, she has a long way to go.
Gosh, most of these public ‘SERVANTS’ as they are called are well we know.
I can believe, we do, but I know we (U.S) don’t.
Hey, I was young once, and I’m still considered such, or middle-aged…
The longevity in our country from a hundred years ago has grown from approximately 47 to double.
Double inflation?
Go figure…wish our government cared enough about OUR economy enough to give up some of their luxuries…like having SERVANTS.
Al Gore is a good preacher…telling us about Global Warming while he lives in a mansion, zooms in jets, and (by the way all of them are).
Oh, nevermind…seems they’re all of the same mindset…
They could care less.
Is there any real person running to be President?
Someone that knows tragedy, fear, pain…
strength?
January 8th, 2008 at 11:48 am
#11, If I may address a part of your comment. We the Americans are the ones who put us in consumer debt. We max out our credit cards,spend more than we earn, buy homes way too expensive, just trying to keep up with the Jonses’ and when the walls fall in on us we blame our government.
Think it is time we Americans stood together to change the White House, Senate, Congress and our State Reps, if we want a change on the hill. Re-electing politicans just because they have experience is not the way we need to move forward. Keep in mind those older politicians and senators now running for the White House, have many built up politican favors to return if they are elected, which will make most of what issues that ran on null & void, until the good ole guys are repaid those favors.
While I do not agree with these wars and there costs, they are putting money into the American economy with mfg jobs.
OK, lets say we bring every soldier home from where ever they are stationed. The goverment still pays their salary until they are discharged, those who are discharged upon arrival home, have no jobs, no income and not likly to find work. Where does that leave our ecomony?
January 8th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I have not heard any Dem- say they will cross over. But I have HEARD MANY Republicans say they will cross over for Hillary or Obama.
That said, the new voters may be the “deciders” on this election. They are more open minded and are not “pinned” to any party. This is an interesting election.
But it is not too late for Hillary to pull this off. One thing about her, she knows how the game in played DC. Obama does not. And Hillary is right, you just don’t go in and “Change” things just because you want to. Hillary knows this.
January 8th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Bush - Clinton - Bush - Clinton? I don’t think so. It’s time for a major change, rather than no change in reality.
She comes with too much old baggage and bad history.
January 8th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Well, this is one Republican that has to hope for Hil! What an easy win that will be!
However….since the true likelihood is a Dem for Prez , I’d prefer Obama. Why? Because, he’ll be so busy doing for others, that maybe everyone will open their eyes.
Hil scares me….so does Obama..but, you know, the lesser of two evils?
We’ve been SAFE for years. It’s NOT GOING TO LAST. Why do you all think the the other countries want us to have a Dem for Prez?
Shirley…I agree, Jim Jones, incarnate.
All I can say is, YOU’LL SEE!
January 8th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
HILLARY’S SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT TO THE PRESIDENCY IS ASTONISHING AND PATHOLOGICAL. IT’S BEEN WRITTEN THAT SHE AND BILL DECIDED THAT IT WAS “HER TURN” BUT WE DO NOT HAVE CROWNED ROYALTY OR ANNOINTED QUEENS IN THIS COUNTRY AND NOBODY INHERITS RULING OUR REPUBLIC. HER SO CALLED “EXPERIENCE” IS ILLUSIONARY AND A FIGMENT OF HER IMAGINATION. SHE REFUSES TO DOCUMENT THIS SO CALLED EXPERIENCE BY RELEASING HER WHITE HOUSE PAPERS. SHE HAS BEEN ABLE TO COVER UP MANY OF HER SHADY DEALINGS, IS A KNOWN LIAR, AND CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
January 8th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
JD and Shirley, I agree with you both. JD…I hope we’ll be hearing alot more from you here, lol. You say it best.
Marg Fugate, you said a mouthfull. My husband had to rely on the local ecomomy for his income and he made the most money during the time when Bill Clinton was in. It’s gone downhill ever since until last summer the place where he worked, had to close. This establishment had been thriving in this community since before I was born almost 62 years ago. That’s what Bush has done. I keep hearing on TV how good the economy is doing. What bull! I’d like to know just where it’s doing so good.
My son will be losing his job in a few months. His place of employment is closing also.
Bill Clinton got us out of debt with a surplus. Look what Bush has gotten us into.
Hillary DOES have experience. She didn’t just sit in the White House all those years twiddling her thumbs. She also has Bill to guide her if needed, but I don’t believe for a minute that she can’t handle running this country on her own. I just feel sorry for whomever gets elected, for the mess they will have to get us out of. If a Democrat does get in, I had better not hear one single person say ANYTHING about Democrats spending and taxing. It’s always been the Rebublicans spending and then the Democrats getting into office and having to raise taxes to get us out of debt the Rebublicans got us into the first place.
It’s so easy for some young pup,(Obama) with stars and stripes in his yet unfocused eyes, to get up and tout change, but I’d like to know exactly what all his plans are. If Obama were to ever become president, he would be like a lamb led to slaughter and we would all be led with him. Whomever it was that just said, if Obama wins the primary, we will have a Rebublican for our next president, I think you’re right.
Hillary Clinton is one very strong lady who is very capable of being president of this country. Much more capable, than any man that is currently running.
GO HILLARY!!!
January 8th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Samiam Says:
January 7th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
To me, it appears that Hillary’s campaign is reaching back to her own nostalgia with the nineties and her husband’s presidency
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I have to agree with you there. Hillary comes with the sting of her husband’s presidency in the 90s. I have to watch her speeches a bit more regarding that co-president, this is the first I heard. I was kind of afraid of that that Bill Clinton will be involved in a majority of decisions that she makes. Maybe in a way that is good to have someone there with you that is experienced, but I prefer to have someone in there with fresh ideas.
January 8th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Indeed friends, indeed we need change.
But I am not yet convinced that Obama is the viable agent for it. He is charming and talks the talk, and perhaps somewhere in his files he has a marvelously prepared, step-by-step agenda about how he is going to help fix our floundering economy (the sinking stock market, the incredibly steep decline of the American dollar vs other currencies, the stupendous rate at which our jobs are outsourced to the far reaches of the globe–hey, by the way, outsourcing might soon stop, for what with the disappearance of labor unions and countless steady jobs, we’ll all work for such low wages that outsourcing becomes expensive), well, to make a long story short, Obama might just have the roadmap to our deliverance, also how to get us out of Iraq without leaving a horrific civil war in our wake as the tribal heads and the Sunnis and the Shiites go on a rampage to amass power, also, surely Obama has a plan to kiss and make up with Al-Qaida and Hezbollah, also nicely convince Iran to refrain from nuking Israel or God forbid, us, also bring peace to Pakistan, prosperity to Afghanistan so they stop growing poppies and grow grain instead….
Ahhhh, be still my heart!
But yes, somewhere, indeed somewhere, there is Obama’s wondrous plan to make America great again! And fix the borders and beef up the inspection of imported goods that are so easily dancing flooding our markets and poisoning us with lead and such, oh, yes if only Obama would not keep his cure-all plan such a secret from us…
I am a journalist and novelist, an American who’s lived in Europe and the Middle East, and I support Hillary Clinton. I confess that I somewhat identify with her, we are about the same age, so, call us old bats, we are Scorpios — hey, Scorpio is the Phoenix, the bird that rises from the ashes :-)) –, but also, I am a once-upon-a-time starry-eyed idealist, whose naivete is now tempered with hard-nosed realism. Realism brought by hands-on experience earned through trials and tribulations by fire. At the very least, Hillary is a realist and sure has experience.
Is she the cure-all person? No. Our situation is too complex. Our problems severe.
But she has the knowledge and experience to give it a shot. I did consider McCain. Am still considering him. He is a bonafide hero and has accomplished a lot. Though there are a few things we differ on. Mitt Romney and Huckabee and let’s not forget Guliani, are all candidates with a rucksack full of experience.
But I still am hooked on Hillary.
True, I consider her a two-fer, as in Bill and Hill. Also, she sure is a tough woman, and I don’t give a flying figleaf that she is not as cute as Obama.
I respect her for her mature age, her knowledge of the issues on hand, and I feel proud that after a Q & A session in New Hampshire, she had the grace to shed a few tears.
Yet, to be honest, I gotta admit she seems to be going down. I watched many a political commentary about her in the aftermath of Iowa, and all I heard was an army of pundits who are almost giddy as they race with each other to hasten her demise.
My pendulum predicts that Obama will be the next President of the United States of America.
We are in God’s hands. Let’s pray that Obama will walk the walk. Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast!
If I could run into Hillary Clinton on the street, I’d grasp her hand and say: You are a woman, let them hear you ROAR!
January 8th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
I just hope everyone has researched their chosen candidate! I honestly don’t think a Muslim-raised, non-Pledge of Allegiance practicing Senator from Illinois has the USA’s best interests in his sights! How does the POTUS NOT say pledge allegiance to his own country? Or swear on the Koran and not the Bible? Ask Senator Obama…..
And Mrs. Clinton as President??? Please! What President CRIES for godsakes! We need someone with backbone and a ferocious protectiveness towards this country! Someone who wants to keep us the sovereign nation we are and should remain! And close our borders! Not some pansy country that panders to others just to be popular! Hate that stupid game…. (grumble, grumble…)
January 9th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Goody…more bumper stickers that proclaim “Impeach Clinton and neuter her husband”.
I’m with Freida..how does that happen that we normally agree and I understand her viewpoints?
And Clipper your first paragraph was right on!
Now I know why I stray away from political banter.
January 9th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Hey, she won New Hampshire (at least that’s what’s being reported right now!)!!
And yet, I don’t have high hopes that either Obama or Hilary Clinton can win the Presidency.
January 9th, 2008 at 1:04 am
YES!!!
January 9th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Freida #20 sometime I can’t follow you but this time I sure can and agree with you.Also Clipper#21 I can see you point and have talked about just that same thing with family and friends.Right now what is going on has kept a lot of jobs goingall the way down to the small 50 to 100 people companies.Also look at what happened in Vietnam we pulled out and left many to face death and concentration camps.I know we had to leave because of being over run,but things could have been handled better and earlier so it was not a lastsecond evacuation.Hope the same does not happen this time.IMO we need a slow withdrawal of our troops.Not just a fast swoop and we are out.
January 9th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Kim A. “what president cries”? I’ve heard last night on TV that Bush produced tears a few times during his presidency, also some others.
For heaven’s sake. If Hillary cries, she’s considered weak, but if she doesn’t cry, she’s considered cold. I wouldn’t want anyone who didn’t have emotions and feelings. That’s what makes them human, for heaven’s sake.
Get real everyone!
January 10th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Hillary sacrificed way too much in order to run for the presidency. Any woman who suffers the humiliation she has suffered and hangs on to her husband just so she can be the president, while going after her husbands women to harass THEM and do nothing to her husband has some deep pathological problem. If she had castrated him (just kidding) I would think better of her.
Edwards is a jerk whose wife is always defending him. He can deal with the corporate section but that only shows he knows how to play dirty so long as his pockets will be lined in the end.
Obama is a lightweight who will say whatever makes him look tough, even something as stupid as bombing Pakistan. I am sure that presidents have a myriad of advisers well versed in every aspect, but he needs to take a few years off to acquire more knowledge, put on at least 10 pounds and stop cutting his hair so short.
Thompson behaves as though the presidency is just an afterthought.
Juliani would be fine if it weren’t for having a mistress while married. His mistress turned wife ought to be ashamed of herself. He needs to pay a price for that. They both do.
McCanne (sp?) is Ok. He is knowledgeable and seasoned.
Mitt Romney is the right one.
Forget the others, whomever they may be.
January 11th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I do not consider Hillary weak for shedding tears, crying she was not. She was emotional, tired and overwhelmed at losing the first primary. She sure did not tear up when Billy Graham was doing the eulogy for the victims of 9/11, for those who did not watch it on TV.
Bush teared up when our Country was invaded and so should he have. He has teared up at talking about the lose of human lives in Iraq, so should he. Bush is the quarterback, we blame him not the other team players, are we ever wrong. Takes many to be a team.
January 13th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Clipper, One thing about Bush: he does not play with the team. He does whatever he wants to regardless what the team thinks. He went ahead and started this war regardless of what anyone else thought.
He makes up his own rules and everyone else, be damned. I’d love to know what he promised Tony Blair, to go along with this war.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Joni,
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but ‘the team’ is playing with Bush.
He’s just a cheerleader.
Actually, they’re just playing US.
January 15th, 2008 at 2:09 am
I do not like wars or violence of any kind — fake or otherwise, such as in the movies.
President Bush did not invent war. There was WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the Gulf, plenty of skirmishes here, there and everywhere. Throughout the world there are plenty of fights, killing by one idiot who does not like another idiot. You name it, there is never a shortage of cruelty.
Politics never interested me and it irritated me when I saw people glued to the TV watching the news. That all changed when I got on the Internet and read and watched the horrors going on in Bosnia. I saw a long line of people forced out of their homes and walking along those mountains with barely enough to keep them warm in that freezing weather.
In Africa there is always something going on somewhere with machete-wielding people ready to chop up people.
The entire world wants the USA to help them out when they get themselves in trouble because they are weak and powerless. When it comes time for them to open their filthy traps to criticize America, they get their neighbors all brainwashed and take pride in pelting the US, while their brothers and sisters hide inside jet engines or wherever they can crawl inside to come to this country.
I arrived here in 1964, went to school without knowing a word of English. I learned English the hard way and I found it a humiliatingly horrible experience. When I see how foreigners are coddled nowadays, I find it sickening. Somehow, these days people seem to forget that when they go somewhere, they are guests and as guests they are to do what is expected of them without complaining and making waves. Fortunately I had already learned to respect others, especially those in charge of whatever situation they were responsible for. I am very glad I learned manners and respect before coming here where everyone lands to get away from what they did not like, just so they can proceed to force their way of life on others.
Even though it was not a Communist country, one did not dare say anything against the government. Even in a goup of acquaintances, one was cautious to not say anything derogatory.
The US should snap out of this baloney and put some strict code on conduct for anyone entering this country to follow to the letter. Whatever their old life was, should be discarded; if they object, they ought to be given a swift kick out the door.