Re: Dear Dances With Perjury:

Trump lies but his lies are trivial compared to the lies every other person who has ever run for public office has told. Most politicians lie about what they will do when they get elected. Trump laid out many, many promises which seemed to sound good but which most people did not believe he would do.

To date he's done most of what he promised to do and none of those are trivial accomplishments. Even though congressional republicans would not pass a bill which included funding of the wall he has continued to divert money from other government entities to building that wall he promised.

I've live 66 years and have a fair overview of every president since JFK and I've never seen a man as honest as Trump in office. I've never seen one who was called out as much in the media for trivial lies he told either.

To your point, Obama's biggest lies he told about obamacare, they were about the promises he made to the poor to get them to the polls and vote for him. Whether they admit it or not he promised their lives would be better.

What he gave them was a continuation of the flood of cheap labor across the southern border which replaced the unskilled labor in this country. Only the poor suffer when the border is left unsecured. Obama promised that the poor would be the focus of his wealth distribution, they were not. They got halfazzed healthcare and food stamps while the banks, auto manufacturers and wall street got the money.

What Trump gave them was jobs, a return of the dignity of providing for their families and some unimportant, trivial lies which damaged no one.

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He's dealing with both Mexico and China on trade.

Oct 18, 2018, 9:30 AM

He appears to be playing hardball with them. Just this morning he threatened to send troops to the southern border to stop invaders. He may yet build a wall and may in some fashion make Mexico pay for it. I consider calling China a currency manipulator as nothing but talk. Saying that's a harm to not calling them one is not something on my radar.

The trade agreement with China may force their hand on currency manipulation. The end result may be sufficient to say he's addressed their handling of the value of their currency. When he's being hard on an adversary I don't expect him to be openly harsh with his rhetoric. I expect him to be hard as he has been on Russia with sanctions and selling weapon defenses to the nations snuggled up too Russian borders rather than being big with talk.

Congress has not done enough to help. As long a pubs can't push things through because of the RINO arm of the party or the obstinate pubs like Paul and the dems refusal to do anything but obstruct and whine he's helpless on some issues. You should give him credit for all he's accomplished and expect him to continue to do all he can.

Everything in congress has to be negotiated, nothing is simple and that's part of why every POTUS has to give to get. He did all he could with repealing Obamacare. His executive orders helped but congress just couldn't pass the bill to repeal it. I've heard it was one vote short.

He's not nearly as capable of giving conservatives everything they want as Obama was satisfying the progressives. He just doesn't have the votes in congress. I'm not saying he would be a true conservative if he could pass the laws. I'm saying even if he was there's no way congress would pass everything a true conservative wants just as there is no way a true socialist could satisfy the progressives.

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Dear Dances With Perjury: