NOTHING BUT LOSSES

According to G.O.P. canon, Obama receives no credit for record highs of the Dow but is responsible for any losses.  Under Obama, the stock market has suffered nothing but losses during his administration, whereas, conversely, George W. Bush had a sterling record, having been responsible only for gains.

OBAMA AND THE AUGUST 24TH STOCK SELL OFF

Republicans are highly critical of President Obama's role in the August 24th stock sell off.   Obama showed no  empathy for the overprivileged or showed any concern that the sell off might affect year end bonuses of Wall Street personnel. Had the sell off occurred during the Bush Administration, things would have been handled quite differently with contingency plans, in place, for a bailout to save Christmas bonuses for hedge fund operators as was done in the last financial crisis.

ANCHOR BABIES

Although I keep hearing that illegal aliens are having anchor babies, the only ones that I know of, were had by LEGAL aliens, in the U.S. on a tourist visa, who paid full price at an American hospital, for the privelege.  Knowing how things work, in the U.S., if the alien has enough money, she will receive gestational residence so her anchor baby will be born here with full citizen rights.

TRUMPERY

A saying, atributed to Lincoln, is that "you cannot fool all of the people, all of the time" which is, however, contrasted to P.T. Barnum's dictum that "there's a sucker born every minute".  There is something, in a large segment of the population, which makes being fooled, pleasurable.  There is a very old word, in the English lanuage, "trumpery" signifying "attractive articles of little or no value" which indicates that the trait has been around a long time.  Look it up.

PROHIBITION OF ABORTION

Although I was 2 years old when Prohibition was ended, it took another 40 years to end the prohibition of abortion in the United States.  I lived almost half my life in a nation that prohibited abortion.  Anyone who thinks that ending legal abortion in the U.S. will stop abortions just doesn't know the history of the sunject. Abortions went on just as surely as did alcohol consumption while it was illegal in the U.S.  It cost a little more but it was available and was a source of income for the local police just as was the neighborhood speakeasy for another illegal activity, dinking liquor. 

RUMOR HAS IT

Runor has it that  Vladimir Putin is salivating at the prospect of Donald Trump being elected to the Presidency and building a wall thereby enabling Putin to travel to Mexico and give a speech wherein he can say "Mr. Trump, tear down that wall!"

MEXICO SIGNALS THAT IT WILL PAY FOR WALL

I have it on good authority that Mexico will agree to underwriting the cost of Mr. Trump's wall.  The condition that they have stipulated, however is that it be moved some 800 miles north of the Rio Grande thereby returning the land that was wrested from them by force of arms, in the 19th century.