HONESTY

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

Theodore Roosevelt, Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918

If you want to be honest you have to give Trump credit for a great economy. You would think after so many years of growth we would have seen a downturn. But we have not. I remember when he got elected and a lot of liberal folks talked about how terrible it would be for the economy, and the impending crash of the stock market. None of that has happened. We are still adding jobs at almost the same rate as the Obama recovery years.

Not that I care much for Mr. Trump.

On the other side of the coin is a friend of mine who asks "What Obama recovery?"
If he is asking that question, he is not being very honest himself.

I saw a clip a while back, some guy in Indiana. He says "Unemployment was 18% when Obama was president. Trump has it down to 3.9%."
What he failed to note was that it was down to 4.8 when Obama left office. He's not being very honest either. There is a lot of that going around.

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