A Child's Garden of People to Ignore at Times of International Peril
Frank Armstrong · Portland, Oregon
In terms of the final three GOP presidential candidates, ebola qualifies as competition, and could well emerge victorious at a brokered convention. So there's that.
Jim Lehnus · Compassionate Curmudgeon at Self-Employed
And in the case of the ebola scare, we had a president who took the time to understand the situation, listen to the people who knew something about it (like, oh, I don't know, doctors and scientists) rather than the fear mongers on FOX NOT NEWS, and applied the knowledge and advice of experts to arrive at reasoned, practical approaches to the problem.
Imagine if one of the three stooges in the picture had been in charge then- half of Africa would have been carpet bombed and the borders shut down for a year, and anyone not "like us" would have been rounded up and locked away in internment camps.
Quote:By Charles P. Pierce
Mar 22, 2016
Once upon a time, a bad thing happened. Then, it came here. And people got all scared and everything. They wanted the president to do something so they wouldn't be so scared anymore but all he wanted to do was be president and try to find a solution to the bad thing that happened. That scared them even worse. So they said stuff like this:
"We don't need another so-called 'czar'; we need presidential leadership. This is a public health crisis, and the answer isn't another White House political operative. The answer is a commander in chief who stands up and leads, banning flights from Ebola-afflicted nations and acting decisively to secure our southern border.
The Ebola outbreak shouldn't be treated as yet another partisan battle by the White House; rather, we should come together in bipartisan unity to take these common-sense steps to protect the American people. And if the President will not act, if he will not lead, then Congress should immediately reconvene for an emergency session to enact a flight ban and take any other necessary measures to protect the health and safety of Americans."
And this:
"The president has to very seriously consider the fact that we don't want people from infected areas to be flying into the country. This is difficult enough to deal with, the problem we currently have."
And they tweeted stuff like this:
Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump
Ebola has been confirmed in N.Y.C., with officials frantically trying to find all of the people and things he had contact with. Obama's fault
And then the president helped make the bad thing go away, and America got all better, and these three guys went on to be the last three people standing for the Republican presidential nomination.
The End.
Frank Armstrong · Portland, Oregon
In terms of the final three GOP presidential candidates, ebola qualifies as competition, and could well emerge victorious at a brokered convention. So there's that.
Jim Lehnus · Compassionate Curmudgeon at Self-Employed
And in the case of the ebola scare, we had a president who took the time to understand the situation, listen to the people who knew something about it (like, oh, I don't know, doctors and scientists) rather than the fear mongers on FOX NOT NEWS, and applied the knowledge and advice of experts to arrive at reasoned, practical approaches to the problem.
Imagine if one of the three stooges in the picture had been in charge then- half of Africa would have been carpet bombed and the borders shut down for a year, and anyone not "like us" would have been rounded up and locked away in internment camps.
