PROMISES PROMISES
If you’re like me, you’ve about had your fill of Donald Trump, so I promise this will be my last post to mention his name (until next time)….and this post will do so only to bring us to the title subject. For as much as Pied Piper Trump has lured his infatuated followers with the siren song of an outsider/non-politician, he has one thing in common with typical politicians: they promise what they (should) well know they can’t deliver….but The Donald does it as shamelessly as, and more brazenly than, “real” politicians.
Idealistic politicians like 2008 Obama made unkeepable promises, but I think more out of näiveté than hubris or delusions of self-grandeur; he overestimated his powers of persuasion and underestimated the GOP’s resolve to repel him at every turn. Would the 2016 Obama make the same promises, knowing what he knows now, if he could do 2008 over again? Who knows? This post doesn’t promise answers, it promises promises.
One hardly knows where to begin when it comes to wading through the swamp of unbelievable promises made by politicians over the past millendium, so here’s someone else’s compendium, which I recommendium by extending ’em here:
http://www.viralnova.com/insane-political-promises/
For the geographically-challenged, if you didn’t “get” promise #12, Libya is IN Africa. As for me, having more or less winged my way to getting to this point in my post, I at least know how I’m going to bring it to a merciful end: with these promisory quotes….
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. –Edmund Burke
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises. –Chief Joseph
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it. –Red Cloud
What’s important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone. –Hermann Broch
It’s easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you’re going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you’re almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits. –Robert Harris
Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing. –Bernard Baruch
Or you can heed this bumper sticker: DON’T THINK – VOTE TRUMP
Cynthia Jobin 12:19 am on May 20, 2016 Permalink |
Sorry I cant co-operate, here; I promised myself not to rant about politics while in the blogosphere…
‘The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep…’
…so goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
LikeLiked by 2 people
mistermuse 5:22 am on May 20, 2016 Permalink |
I can’t think of a better poetically-correct way to “can’t co-operate” than to invoke Robert Frost….and Jimmy Durante, no less. Everybody wants to get into da act! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Jackie 9:53 pm on May 20, 2016 Permalink |
“DON’T THINK – VOTE TRUMP”
That says it all! What a sorry state of affairs! 😦
LikeLiked by 2 people
mistermuse 9:59 pm on May 20, 2016 Permalink |
You said it! 😦
LikeLike
eths 11:45 pm on May 20, 2016 Permalink |
What I couldn’t believe is when I saw Trump on footage where he was asked what attributes he thought his 1 year old daughter had gotten from him and his wife. He replied something about his wife’s legs and then referred to his wife’s breasts. The man is really sick.
LikeLiked by 2 people
mistermuse 7:56 am on May 21, 2016 Permalink |
Either he’s sick, or his head is ego-wide and a millionth of a millimeter in depth….or he’s the latter, AND he’s sick.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Don Frankel 6:02 am on May 21, 2016 Permalink |
“A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage.” But enough of politics. I’m with Cynthia so “Goodnight and God Bless.”
LikeLike
mistermuse 8:28 am on May 21, 2016 Permalink |
Like Yogi Berra, who said “I never said everything I said,” Herbert Hoover’s “A chicken in every pot” is another of those famous quotes never actually said by who said it (as Yogi might say):
LikeLike
arekhill1 12:20 pm on May 21, 2016 Permalink |
I promise that the morning after the general election, we will know whether brain-dead droolers constitute a majority of the American voting public. And that’s all I’m going to promise.
LikeLiked by 1 person
mistermuse 2:04 pm on May 21, 2016 Permalink |
And I promise that the majority of supposed Republican mugwumps who said they couldn’t support Trump will swallow their integrity and vote for him….although, to their credit, some of them will hold their noses as they do so.
LikeLike
Mél@nie 9:15 am on May 22, 2016 Permalink |
@”DON’T THINK – VOTE TRUMP!” – Canadian friends from Vancouver, BC have just visited here for a week… they work with Americans who said to them:”if trump wins, we’ll move to Canada, but… we wonder: is it far enough?!…” 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
mistermuse 11:22 am on May 22, 2016 Permalink |
If Trump wins, I don’t know if anyplace is far enough — maybe Outer Mongolia? 🙂
LikeLike
Garfield Hug 5:56 am on June 11, 2016 Permalink |
As one living in lil red dot right smack in Asia, we are worried too on the state of affairs if Trump “accidentally” gets in – I wish all Americans well and that they vote for the best person for the job or the better person.
LikeLiked by 1 person
mistermuse 7:33 am on June 11, 2016 Permalink |
I doubt there has ever been a more flawed (to put it politely) major party candidate for President than Donald Trump, and yet he has a FrIGHTenING chance of getting in. Time will tell.
LikeLike