Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
Reply #1210 –
Besides obstruction of justice and extorting the president of Ukraine?
These are legal matters, and I dare say that I'm better qualified to judge them than you...
One could go on for a disturbingly long time.
And indeed many do! But they're mostly pulling crap out their arses (lying; making things up) or referring to policy disputes.
Those who voted against the impeachment voted against it just to be partisan, not because the crimes were not there
Perhaps some few did. But more than a few in the Senate are lawyers and former prosecutors themselves, and know better than "Shifty" Schiff and "Nasty" Nadler.
Did you know that the bill of impeachment passed the House without a single Republican vote? That's the first time in our history that's happened!
Even the report turned in by the So-Very Special Counsel Muller didn't reach that conclusion ("collusion," obstruction or other "high crimes and misdemeanors"), so Muller's stenographer (I suspect it was Weissmann, a lawyer with a history...) punted! (It's a term referring to an American football play: No-one expects it to be recovered...)
I'm sorry to say, the angst and anger really does boil down to "Orange Man Bad," which is to state the un-remarkably obvious: Trump is uncouth, nontraditional, and surprisingly effective, as president of the U.S.!
[Re: Obama] Not very proper for a Head of State meant to act with dignity.
Of course, you had to chime in...
Two things prepared me for his term(s) in office. One, though he'd been editor of the Harvard Law Review and a lecturer at U. Chicago's Law School, he never published a scholarly paper... And, two, when he made his first visit to GB he presented the Queen Mum with -- recordings of his own speeches! Even I thought, "How gauche!"