We witnessed for four nights this year’s Republican
Convention in Cleveland.
Every single speaker spoke primarily about all the flaws
and mishaps of the Obama administration and how Hillary Clinton was an
accomplice of Obama in all those mistakes, and many that were falsely created.
It was interesting to watch Mr. Trump’s wife plagiarize
part of Michelle Obama’s speech of 2008. Although she said she had written it
after 3 days of the Trump team sticking to their guns that there was no plagiary,
they finally came out to admit that they used Mrs. Obama’s speech as a base.
We then had The Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, former mayor of NY Rudy Giuliani, NJ
Governor Chris Christie, and many others. All of them inciting the delegates about
how Hilary Clinton this, and Hilary Clinton that. Benghazi, Emails, etc. to
which the delegates would chant “lock her up”.
Many speakers blamed Obama for bad trade deals when they
voted for them such as Alabama Senator Jefferson Sessions. We cannot forget
that the Republicans have had the majority in House since 2010, and in the
Senate since 2014.
It’s interesting that NJ Governor Christie wanted to judge
Mrs. Clinton, while he is still under investigations by the US Attorney in New
Jersey for the bridge gate scandal, something that caused the death of a
patient that was being transported across the bridge from New Jersey to New
York City. For those who do not know what happened Governor Christie during his
re-election campaign starting pressuring democratic mayors to endorse him, the mayor
of Ft. Lee, the town closest to the George Washington Bridge, the busiest
bridge in the world, refused to endorse the governor, so allegedly the governor
had two out of the three lanes into NY closed, causing major traffic issues in
Ft. Lee.
Going back to the convention what made this convention
unusual was the hatred coming from the delegates and the speakers, the booing
of Senator Ted Cruz when he refused to endorse Trump for president. Senator
Cruz came in second in delegates, but the reason he did not endorse Trump was
because Trump insulted the senator’s wife and father during the primary, the fact
that the governor of Ohio, the state in which the convention took place, the
lack of any of the Bush family members, candidates to president McCain and
Romney, and many more members of the Republican establishment. and the fact
that the name of the candidate was rarely mentioned.
One has to reach the conclusion that the reason they did
not bring up the name of the candidate is because the candidate has no
proposals except of hatred, using derogatory vocabulary towards Mexicans,
Muslims, and women.
Mr. Trump spoke on Thursday night, he spoke for almost an
hour and a half, he gave a list of made up stats, such as saying that crime was
going up in the US although 2015 was one of the lowest in a quarter century,
the fact that police officers had been killed in higher number than ever,
another miss fact.
To end Mr. Trump said that he and he alone could resolve
the problems of the country, as if the USA was a kingdom like in the days of Henry
VIII, or a banana republic in which the president has been in power for 30
years, with unlimited powers. He gave no specifics on how to resolve the ills he said the country was suffering. In the past Mr. Trump said that the way he would
penalize countries such as China by putting a 35% excise tax on Chinese imports,
but he did not mention it last night, possibly because he knows that that would
hurt the American people, increasing the cost of goods 35%.
Mr. Trump also left out of his speech something he told the
NY Times Thursday morning about not defending some of the NATO smaller nations
in the event that Russia attacks them. That is another controversial decision
because NATO was created to defend the US allies primarily to protect American
interests. he also said in the past that women who got an abortion would go to jail.
Mr. Trump made this convention to his image, it was
disorganized, full of hatred, and empty.
Mr. Trump spoke about his success as a businessman,
something that is not truly accurate. Trump steaks, bankrupt; Trump Airlines,
gone; Trump mortgage, bankrupt; Trump University, in a law suit for misleading
people; Trump Casinos in Atlantic City, NJ, bankrupt. In most of these
bankruptcies he hurt innocent victims, and benefited himself. In many of his constructions he left unpaid
bills with small businesses.
It was obvious that more than enthusiastic about Mr.
Trump candidacy they delegates were more behind the idea of hating Hillary
Clinton.
Now we will see if the Democratic Party will imitate the
Republican lack-of-ideas convention or they will take the high road, and try to
tell the country how they want to lower the unemployment to full employment,
reduce the deficit, reduce the cost of higher education, and how to make the
middle class more prosperous.
