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2020-10-17 Home Front: Politix

CNN on the attack: Former White House chief of staff tells friends that Trump 'is the most flawed person' he's ever met

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-10-17 08:17|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Excuse me! Flawed? Did this guy really serve in the Marines?

Posted by Angoluling Ulealing4735 2020-10-17 09:39|| 2020-10-17 09:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Conclusion: when you pick a chief executive, look for the right kind of sonabitch?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-10-17 09:48|| 2020-10-17 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 You shitheads brought us defeat and disaster in endless overseas wars.

On your watch you allowed China to become a superpower and a global menace to this country.

You supported an insane deal that would build up Iran, you needlessly provoked Russia, and you nearly plunged us into god only knows how many more overseas adventures from the Horn of Africa through Syria to North Africa.

Trump called bullish!t on you incompetents.

Kick and writhe and spit all you want. Your time is over.

Posted by Phaviper Platypus6237 2020-10-17 10:15|| 2020-10-17 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Not the first time someone has complained of The Boss being too weaselly in their words.

General George C. Marshall, head of the US Army in WW2 and head of the "Marshall Plan" to repair Europe afterwards, had a 'chilly' relationship with FDR. "Mister President" when FDR wanted to be first-name pals and asked the General to extrapolate oft-hand remarks as policy. Perhaps the General remembered "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?!? (Henry II)" when he demanded distance and firm, explicit instructions. Explicit instruction mean a politician can't say later "I didn't mean that!"

Or Kelly found out that he and Trump just didn't like each other. That he mentions it now is ... childish.

Posted by magpie 2020-10-17 10:27|| 2020-10-17 10:27|| Front Page Top

#5 If his 'friends' run to CNN the moment he relates something to them privately perhaps his judgement in 'friends' isn't quite what he imagines it to be.

Posted by Cesare 2020-10-17 11:17|| 2020-10-17 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 People keep telling me how dishonest Trump is but they never provide meaningful examples(sure, he's a salesman by nature, and not careful in his words, but find meaningful lies.)
At his level relationships are almost always transactional.

Posted by Glenmore 2020-10-17 11:34|| 2020-10-17 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Kelly served under Obama, right? You cannot tell me a Chicago pol didn't base EVERYTHING on "what can you do for me?"

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-10-17 13:06|| 2020-10-17 13:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Kelly is a moron. All politics is transactional.

If you work in the White House, then you serve the president at his will. Every great or even more than usually effective president we've ever had has known how to coerce, wheedle, charm, dissemble and manipulate others to get what he wants. Lincoln, FDR, LBJ, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan - all of them masters of transactional politics.

Kelly sounds like a babe in the woods. Thank his Yrump ditched this squalling infant.

Posted by Uloluck Sinatra2294 2020-10-17 13:13|| 2020-10-17 13:13|| Front Page Top

#9 To become a general officer requires being a politician. As U Sinatra said, politics is transactional - does Kelly not see it in himself?
(And I am still waiting for an example of significant dishonesty - not saying there isn't one, but don't know of it.)

Posted by Glenmore 2020-10-17 16:11|| 2020-10-17 16:11|| Front Page Top

#10 I wonder how much they paid him to say this.

Posted by gorb 2020-10-17 16:54|| 2020-10-17 16:54|| Front Page Top

#11 He doesn't comprehend, after Trump "Après nous, le déluge".

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-10-17 18:07|| 2020-10-17 18:07|| Front Page Top

#12 Well that does it, I'm voting for Biden.... Not!

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-10-17 20:00|| 2020-10-17 20:00|| Front Page Top

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