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Thinking Out Loud: Trump the Unqualified

Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, with whom I rarely agree, recently wrote an excellent column on why Donald Trump shouldn’t be our next president. She wrote — and I have long believed this — that there are three qualifications essential to a successful presidency: intellect, experience and temperament. And Trump has none of them. Experience?

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Truman’s Impossible, Inevitable Election as President

When Harry Truman began his famous “Whistle-Stop Campaign” for president this week (Sept. 17) in 1948, his goal was to travel the country by train, speaking to any American voters who would listen about the “do nothing” Republican Congress, which — Truman believed — was blocking his attempts to better the lives of the American

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Quote of the Week

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” – Ben Franklin (This Thursday is Constitution Day, recognizing that the Constitution was signed on Sept. 17, 1787)

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