Tag: 2016 USA election
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Trump has been good for everyone!
We really do need to thank Donald Trump. His campaign has singlehandedly increased the interest in 2016 politics to, perhaps, an all-time high. People are fascinated by what he says, how he says it, and how he responds to what other people say. People may scrunch up their nose and call him a jerk (or…
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Bernie Sanders has a big problem with something. And so do I.
I’ve never met Bernie Sanders. He seems like a nice guy. He seems sincere and consistent in what he has believed in all of these years. I have a friend in Vermont who says nice things about him. I believe her. But over the course of this presidential campaign season, as I listened closely to…
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Is Rubio the One to Watch?
A number of pundits and journalists have declared Marco Rubio the official winner in the Iowa Caucus – not because he came in first, but because he came in third, only one point off of Trump. I tend to agree with this analysis. This was a major step forward for the Rubio campaign and he…
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Trump, Sanders, Carson all Signify the Same Thing (sort of)
I love talking politics. Rarely do so on this blog because the last thing I want is for this blog to devolve into some sort of political debate forum. We’ve all seen the vicious comments which are endemic. I really hate that kind of discourse. It’s both unproductive and uncivilized, yet fully protected by the…
Author Mark W Sasse 