Thursday, May 05, 2016

The plutocratic presidential movement.

Merriam Webster has no definition of presidential. It begins with president and then presidential government, but, there is no such definition in the language.

What is the definition of Presidential?

Presidential means the person wears a suit, with shoes that are shiny. The person has good posture. It is unclear whether or not the person actually is personable or more robotic. That aspect needs clarity.

I suppose presidential means not stating Mexico will pay for the wall. I guess a presidential person would automatically assume the USA's ego over rides any policy that saves money for a treasury filled by taxpayers.

Let's see. Presidential. Hm. An American President usually has a dog. At least one. The Bill Clinton Presidential luster was with a cat named Sox.

Presidential means riding in a big, black car with a gas engine that doesn't run if one puts diesel fuel in it. It also means a person rarely drives themselves. Then there is the presidential jet. Hm. Presidential???? 

It means having a second White House. The original is never good enough, except, for President Obama. "W" had a ranch, his father had "The Fidelity 3" motor boat in Maine. He and Romney had big boats with big engines in common. The Kennedys had Hyannis Port. That was family time. Jackie liked horses in New Jersey and Caroline had Macaroni the pony.

What else is presidential? Hm????

The First Lady has fancy clothes. Nancy Reagan borrowed hers. Oh, yeah, they have their Christmas tree delivered by horse drawn wagon.

Presidential????????? I suppose that could be talking about policies that matter like realizing Ryan is afraid of being completely embarrassed by his economic/tax plan. That might be presidential. Actually knowing what the economy needs, instead of hyperbolic bullshit.

Then there is the issue of foreign policy. Golf courses are economic and add GDP to any country that has one. Golf courses are good will gestures. I don't know if Russia has any.

It's not the Masters, but, Russia has golf. It is funny, I don't recall any American president being presidential on Russian golf courses.


More tycoons (click here) are launching beautiful golf courses in Russia. Now they need some players.

The prestigious Caesarea Golf Club, (click here) established in the 1960s by the Baron de Rothschild Family, is the only international golf course in Israel.

I don't think Americans know there are golf courses all over the world. Really. Golf is a big thing. How come Americans don't know more about this?

I suppose being brash is unbecoming a USA President. There were presidents in the history of the USA that were from among the people. Yes, there were brash Presidents, too. Those weren't all that long ago.

To be completely honest, American Presidents of the past were real people and not DISTANT from the people. There was a change in the POSTURE of American Presidents beginning with Woodrow Wilson.

Woodrow Wilson is WWI. It was a time when the Industrial Revolution was seeing it's first philanthropists. Not just inventors, but, those people that were amassing enormous wealth. The President became a focus of SOCIETY as well as governing. President Wilson was very much 'The Gentleman." He would not follow the activities of one of his predecessors charging up this hill or that hill.

It was Woodrow Wilson that changed the 'character' of the USA President and it was based in social status and wealth. It was the beginning of "The Wall Street President."

If that is what the critics of Donald Trump are stating as unpresidential, "viva la differance."

The Tea Party had it's beginnings in 2008. Donald Trump is very much a representative sample of them.